Sign On The Line

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In some stations, management have got a new trick: get the Station Supervisor to sign Storage Licences.

Their excuse is that the Supervisor knows more about the station environment than the GSM does. Obviously, that's true! But it is a pretty weak pretext for what is a very dangerous move.

Storage Licences are a landlord responsibility. GSMs are landlords; Station Supervisors are operational. Tubeworker rents a flat. I know the flat's environment a lot better than my landlord does; but it is his - not my - responsibility to get legally-upstanding, signed gas safety checks. And quite right too.

That's what this is about: responsibility. If something goes wrong because some machinery or substances are stored somewhere inappropriate or unsafe, then it is the person whose signature is on the Licence who will be hauled up in court.

Highly-paid managers usually tell you that they deserve their generous salaries because of all the responsibility they take. Or do we have a new system now - high pay for avoiding responsibility and offloading it onto you and I?!?

Tubeworker senses another step in management's long game to turn Station Supervisors into operational managers, so that SSs can do a political job for them in the workplace as well as running the station. No thanks!

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