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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 4 (August 24, 1926)

Human Factor:

Human Factor:

(a) Improved training, supervision and discipline.

(b) Safety organisation, education persuasion, co-operation, first aid, medical attention…..

Resolved, That the Safety Section, American Railway Association, appeals to all Trainmasters to provide ways and means of impressing upon Conductors, Flagmen, and Brakemen, particularly new and inexperienced men, the necessity for exercising proper care in the performance of duty to the end that maximum safety may be assured and a thirty-five per cent. reduction in casualties be achieved by 1930, which is the safety goal of the railroads, and be it further

Resolved, That it is the opinion of the Safety Section, that if proper and continuous effort is put forth to impress upon Conductors, Flagmen and Brakemen the four major causes of fatalities, namely: (1) struck by trains, (2) Getting on and off trains, (3) Falling off trains and (4) Coupling and uncoupling cars, that within a short period a very marked reduction in fatal accidents will be accomplished.

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