New Attack on Trains Safety: Tripcock Testing to be Cut?
Submitted by Janine on 25 September, 2010 - 07:43LU management have produced a document which waters down safety checks for trains. Your reps believe that this is a disaster waiting to happen. The document states that during special circumstances, special timetable operation, abnormal service patterns, failure of trip-cock testers, there is no requirement to test trip-cocks every trip. Every 48 hours or so seems good enough for LU.
As far as RMT is concerned, trip-cocks must be tested every trip regardless of other circumstances.