In an interview in Rail the HMRI Chief Inspector is quoted as saying that the PTI on LUL is slightly safer than on the national network, despite the huge volumes of passengers and crowding it deals with.
This would suggest that standards are higher on LUL and, maybe, it would be LUL that wouldn't tolerate the conditions on the national network, not the other way around.
I would assume though that the figures relate only to data on actual incidents. How many people are thumped, whacked squeezed and bruised by closing Tube doors?! Many thousands each day I would think. The difference being that it's accepted. Accepted that doors will close on people, accepted that platforms will be rammed with passengers teetering on the edge, accepted that trains will arrive and depart under those conditions. LUL do very well to maintain the safety record they do under those conditions, but I maintain that such conditons are not deemed generally acceptable on heavy rail.
Maybe those figures suggest an argument that they should be....
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whatever the actual stats, which are numerous, complex and can no doubt in many cases be spun to support either side of the argument , this dispute as others have pointed out now seems to be largely about managements right to manage v the potential ability of the combined unions to cause very severe future disruption if they fail to reach an agreement
No, it really isn't. It is about members wishing to secure the future of their jobs, the only way to do so being to fight for the continued existance of their current role in it's present form. It really isn't some secret RMT crusade in which FGW Guards are the unwitting pawns, as much as some posters here would like to think it is. It is quite simply about ensuring that there remains an operational requirement to have a Guard on board the train; as opposed to them becoming a superfluous irrelevance which somebody just might decide in the future they no longer wish to employ.
It is very simple. I remain utterly baffled by those who pretend they cannot grasp the problem.