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I've written evacuation procedures for 1.000 bed hospitals so I might just have an inkling of what I'm on about. When all is said and done it remains the responsibility of the owner/controller of the premises. Moving to another compartment is part of a progressive evacuation process. You won't...

Berney Arms is at -0.3m AOD according to a couple of sources and OS mapping puts it at the Datum

It's the legal duty of the property owner/controller to ensure everyone can be evacuated from the building. Refuges are specifically NOT places to wait to be rescued by the fire service. Any evacuation instructions that specify that will be in breach of the appropriate Regulatory Reform Order

Of course this would be a billable service as it's not a rescue, just covering for the TOCs failure to plan

It should be remembered that, under the legislation, refuges are temporary places to stop during the evacuation processes. They aren't for long term occupation and must be smoke protected for a minimum of 60 minutes, have resilient two-way communication and appropriate safety instructions. If it...

In my experience the fire evacuation plans are weak at best. At MKC I was told that wheelchair users would be evacuated by train. If the station or something in it is on fire, I can't see the fire service being happy with the OLE being live while they are spraying water about I do find it more...

But rather than "we'd sort something", saying there is a plan and they have staff who have practiced appropriate egress in a realistic training scenario is a start. They couldn't even tell me if there would be welfare arrangements to prevent disabled passengers from coming to harm due to weather...

Based on the thread about 'bleak' platforms and a terminated train I was on the other night, with winter coming on made me ponder a bit as a disabled passenger. I wondered what arrangements TOCs have should a train have to be terminated at a station/platform with no step free access. As there's...

Unless you are actually surrounded by smoke of flames, it's highly unlikely that a few seconds will be the difference between safety and harm unless you are working in an environment with hazardous materials. Unless it puts me in harms way I will usually evacuate with keys and, in winter, a...

Luckily never overcarried on the train. Have been 'busnapped' by the driver forgetting the ramp quite a few times. Once made aware most drivers stop immediately but some insist on taking you to the next stop

This is where School Streets really help. Creating a safer zone around schools during start and finish times without as many cars.

I wanted an estate the last couple if time I changed my car but the current trend seems to be to drop the roofline and have a sloping rear window rather than the more vertical ones you'd get 8-10 years ago. If you look as the difference between an Astra or Focus estate from 2010 to now you can...

The key difference between it being done by station staff and someone guaranteed to be on the train is that the person on the train will be there 100% of the time that the wheelchair user is travelling whereas the member of station staff could be anywhere in the station as they will probably be...

All LO stations are staffed throughout service which does make a difference. The impact is less on that kind of network when the gap between services is limited which might be why it's less 'newsworthy'. I'll have to check with Transport For All as they keep stats about that kind of thing for...

What this won't cover is train failures at inaccessible stations/platforms. The driver will be looking after the train rather than assisting anyone. Relying on station staff means a robust communications system between the origin station and the destination station and a process for managing...

Yes, often used after potential exposure to Monkeypox

My point wasn't about which bus companies do or don't operate powered ramps but that if they can work in an environment where the kerb height varies and the distance from the kerb varies at every deployment then designing a system that can cope with a set of known variables like platform height...

'Wild' polio has now been effectively eradicated in Africa the WHO announced recently which is fantastic news. Only a handful of countries require proof of Yellow fever vaccination now if you are coming from a country that does not have it, mostly in sub-saharan Africa. For those interested...

All the childhood vaccines have been delivered by GPs since at least the mid 50s. Specialist travel related ones like smallpox and yellow fever needed specialist centres. Yellow fever still tends to be in special travel clinics. It's effectively impossible to be vaccinated for smallpox these...

On the FNB-Wat journeys the Guard was waylaid by other passengers I found out and the assistance team that had been called by the guard and FNB staff just didn't turn up. WAT-FNB the guard put me on the train as the assistance team weren't working due to the lockdown and the platform staff were...