An Exterme Safety Factor

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Jeff said:
I think you grossly underestimate how lazy people can be.

When I was an R.A. in college, I had to rounds a few times a night, including one after 2 a.m. After the round, you had to write it in the log book. I rarely walked the building on that late round. I just went down and signed the book and went to bed.

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...And yet you can't understand why they put a @#$! switch at the top of the ride to prevent the mechanic from doing his inspection the same way you did your late rounds? :)

Oh...on some rides, the remote key switches have to do with making sure that someone is in a position to *see* the train that is about to start moving.

Joe E.: one of the problems is that the area of the ride being worked on is that while the area being worked on is not itself necessarily a kill zone, access to that area gives you access to a kill zone. CP relies on its mechanics to have a good sense of what's where on the ride and to keep from getting killed. But don't believe for one moment that it will prevent OSHA from citing them for a lockout violation if something goes wrong!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

As I understand it from a former MF operator, the operators the first year complained about having to go all the way to the top each moring to push the button until they found a cracked weld up there one morning.

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RideMan said:
...And yet you can't understand why they put a @#$! switch at the top of the ride to prevent the mechanic from doing his inspection the same way you did your late rounds? :)

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Thats the thing, they can just run up there, push the button and come back.

I highly doubt a operator ever goes up that hill unless they are riding it.

Further, I doubt they are qualified to do so.

Chuck

Personally...I would have liked to seen a picture of the 'button' or the 'switch'. I am just curious to know what it looks like and if anyone has written anything next to it...like 'flip me'.