In emergency care :
Be extra careful at night...
STUDY HUMAN ELEMENT IN ALL NIGHT RAIL ACCIDENTS...
All rail accidents I remember have occurred at Night.
Common sense tells us that Most of them occur due to human errors of sleepy employees
Inference: We must study the human element in these accidents. And correct the error.
Are the railway employees over worked? Over stressed? What are their working conditions? How many nights do they keep awake at a stretch?
Make them work for less nights at a stretch and lesser number of hours on every night less if needed. Appoint more people for night duties.
After every accidents enquiries are made.
Make all the reports public. People have a right to know.
Media owes it to the people to reach these reports to the people.
Rail accidents also remind us of road accidents,
About road accidents: One lakh people die in India in road accidents every year .
More than75 % of them occur from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Due to human error. All of them kill young bread winners of the family leaving orphan children and grand parents.
Lesson: 1. Never do late night driving. 2. Speeding, 3. Overtaking and 4. Alcohol are other major reasons. 5. Majority of these accident occur on National Highways. 6. Writing English road signs in India whose 2001 census shows that only 6% people know English also contributes to this. Central government follows a 3 language policy. Delhi had all road names in 4 languages [Urdu,Punjabi Hindi and English.} Similarly all road signs must be in 3 languages. The language of that state and the link languages Hindi and English.
In border areas, they should have 2 state languages and 2 link languages.
It is cheaper to make multi lingual boards than pay compensation for 1 lakh deaths in road accidents
On every mile stone on the road should carry the name of the contractor who made the road and the engineer officer who approved it so that people will know who made that good [ or bad ] road. People do have a right to this information.
This one lakh figure is much more than those who die in rail accidents.
They deserve as much attention as the rail accidents get.
Those who will not act on this information will be guilty, of omission, of all the future accidents.
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