Friday, 6 September 2013

Rail worker suspended after rescuing disabled woman

A rail worker who saved a disabled woman from train tracks shortly before a train was due has been suspended by his company for 'breaching safety rules'.

Alan Chittock, 50, jumped to the rescue with three other people, hauling the wheelchair-bound woman, who was in her 70s, to safety last week at Southend Central Rail Station.

Onlookers described Mr Chittock as a hero, but his employer, c2c, said that the father of three, had not followed the correct procedures for an incident of this nature.

That is the biggest load of bollocks I’ve ever heard, so judging by their reaction to this event c2c obviously have a procedure in place that when anyone has fallen onto a train track at a busy station, all c2c employees must do nothing and watch as some poor soul gets run over by a train.

Mr Chittock did the right thing and his employers should be rewarding him, and consider themselves lucky they have an employee like that, not making him face some bullshit disciplinary inquiry.

I can’t believe that when his superiors heard about this their immediate thoughts were, he’s not followed the appropriate safety procedures right launch an inquiry and suspend him until further notice.


c2c get your priorities right. 

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