| Posted by mmi16 on November 30, 2016 | |
What could possibly go wrong?
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| Posted by bradley on November 30, 2016 | |
And the one guy standing on the rail, which I believe to be an absolute no-no.
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| Posted by Dana M. on November 30, 2016 | |
Lack of Safety ANYTHING! Like mmi16 said: "What could possibly go wrong?" Yet - in spite of their lack of what we in the United States would call "safety standards" or "operating procedures" - Indian Railways still operate well enough in spite of the fact India is considered a "Third World Country"!
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| Posted by on November 30, 2016 | |
I'm betting $100 even with no PPE, no one got injured.
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This is India.....no one gives a crap about safety there....
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| Posted by cnw4007 on November 30, 2016 | |
They also pay attention to whats going on the whole time so they rarely get injured. Note everyone is watching whats going on and not on the phone or chatting about their girlfriends.
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| Posted by mmi16 on November 30, 2016 | |
Looks like the guy walking on the rail has flip flops on.
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| Posted by bradley on November 30, 2016 | |
This should stir things up: Is that no one cares about safety, or maybe a lack of lawyers and million dollar lawsuits over coffee being hot?
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The man standing on the rail is also leaning on a shovel.
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Despite a lack of safety equipment, these guys probably know more about railway maintenance than most MOW personnel here in the states.
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| Posted by Andrew on December 1, 2016 | |
Re. Danam, the Indian Railways work well enough because they were built properly. They were built by the British.
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Even though they have no safety gears, accidents rarely happen. They are extremely careful and have short time to finish the job as trains would be piling up in the adjacent stations. Line block have to cleared as early as possible and work will be done perfectly with extreme caution. The supervisor will be under pressure to finish the job perfectly as early as possible. And a temporary speed restriction(TSR) will be set for few days.
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| Posted by bradley on December 3, 2016 | |
OK, so all the comments about how safe these guys actually are got me curious, so I done a little bit of quick unscientific research. Couldn't find any figures to compare injuries or deaths for workers in India vs. anywhere else, but I can tell that most of the comments were along the lines of just how dangerous working or riding on railroad in India can be. This picture shows a general lack of safety protocol, and evidently the injury rate among the workers there shows it as well as this picture does.
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| Posted by mmi16 on December 3, 2016 | |
In 2014 27581 Indians died in railway accidents - employees, passengers, trespassers.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/27-581-indians-died-in-railway-accidents-in-2014/story-eeVOa5dY9zKw6GzsfyBZ9M.html
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| Posted by cnw4007 on December 5, 2016 | |
Have to temper the accident rate to the number of people who use it.
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Over 75 people per day? Holly crap!
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| Posted by cnw4007 on December 7, 2016 | |
Remember they have a zillion people riding those trains. Look at some of the pics on this site.
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| Posted by MarkT on December 9, 2016 | |
Exactly - although the fatality rate seems high (that does also include suicides, trespass etc), you have to spread that across a vast rail network with intensive service and a massive population. To be honest, its actually not half as bad as it could be.
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| Posted by cnw4007 on December 9, 2016 | |
Right, have you seen those pics with people hanging all over the outside of the train? sitting on the front coupler or between the cars, amazing.
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| Posted by MarkT on December 13, 2016 | |
CNW4007, yes I have... I took a few of them!
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no safety equipment
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