摘要: |
What is the biggest health and safety risk in bus depots? "Moving vehicles and pedestrians, without a doubt; people that are walking about and vehicles that are moving. The worst thing that can happen is that someone is caught between a moving object and an immovable one - like a parked bus or a wall," observes Richard Harrington, Go-Ahead engineering director. He adds: "When you carry out risk assessments, the first step is to eliminate the risk and take the hazard out. Here, we can't, so it's then a process of putting control measures in place." The risks can't be eliminated because of the nature of the operation. Twice a day, depots experience their peak activity: early mornings, when the fleet is run out for rush hour operations, and evening/night, 6pm-3am, when the buses are run in again. |