I'm not sure if others would find this useful but like many others I have had to answer similar questions on applications which you never receive feedback on as to whether your answers were what they were looking for.
The following is an example question taken from the OPC assessment website and in my opinion one of the harder ones to answer as none of them to me stood out as the correct thing to do.
Fee free to add your thoughts and own answers. It would be especially interesting to hear from people who have recently passed the SJT as it may help others in the future.
"You are driving as a train driver. You stop at a station and a customer comes running up to your cab and tells you that the back engine of the train is on fire. The engine you have been driving is prone to fires and recently another engine caught fire causing extensive damage to the train and the track with injuries to customers who were travelling on the train. What do you do?
4
1
2
3
My thought process was that option 4 is the only one that involves someone physically checking the passengers have received and are acting on the information. However option 3 is the only one that involves checking the train is actually on fire before causing massive disruption but delays evacuation and still relies on the message being conveyed by the PA system...
The following is an example question taken from the OPC assessment website and in my opinion one of the harder ones to answer as none of them to me stood out as the correct thing to do.
Fee free to add your thoughts and own answers. It would be especially interesting to hear from people who have recently passed the SJT as it may help others in the future.
"You are driving as a train driver. You stop at a station and a customer comes running up to your cab and tells you that the back engine of the train is on fire. The engine you have been driving is prone to fires and recently another engine caught fire causing extensive damage to the train and the track with injuries to customers who were travelling on the train. What do you do?
- Make a PA announcement to the customers telling them to leave the train and station immediately, you then call the emergency services.
- You call the emergency services and then make a PA announcement telling customers to leave the train and station immediately.
- You go to the back engine to check out if it is on fire and if it is then you go back to the front cab and you make a PA announcement to customers telling them to leave the train and station immediately.
- You ask a station assistant on the station to go through the train and evacuate customers from the train and station whilst you call emergency services.
4
1
2
3
My thought process was that option 4 is the only one that involves someone physically checking the passengers have received and are acting on the information. However option 3 is the only one that involves checking the train is actually on fire before causing massive disruption but delays evacuation and still relies on the message being conveyed by the PA system...
