The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 07/12/13 07:45, Chris J Dixon wrote:

Indeed so. At one time my job was to put my signature to
documents which cleared new rolling stock as being designed in
compliance with all the relevant standards. Risk assessment was
an integral part of that task, and my signature meant my head
would be (indeed still could be for the life of the equipment) on
the block if things went wrong.

No.

"if you have assessed the risk and considered the outcomes, then you're
covered."

"I have assessed the risk and consider that the train will probably come
off at the first set of points".

The risk assessment done and box ticked, and that IS ALL YOU WAS
REQUIRED TO DO.

Well, not getting the vehicle signed off was not the desired
outcome. Requiring changes, or additional investigation or
documentation sometimes happened.

Nevertheless, if my assessment was flawed, then it remains down
to me, there is no shrugging and walking away from it.

Chris
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Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


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