(18 Nov 2013, 6:31 pm)Dan wrote Doing something they simply shouldn't be doing... Touching things, I don't know.
What if someone tripped and fell over? Injured themselves? Bus depots are massive tin sheds in most cases, and are often quite dark. Who would be held responsible? What would happen?
I don't think their policy would be so daft to allow these movements between vehicles to occur inside of the depot - it would be outside of the depot on the pavement if anything.
The H&S at Work Act is almost 40 years old and even though there has been fine tuning of it and the introduction of endless amounts of red tape, handovers, swaps and even being parked in a depot when those have been happening, have gone on for years.
There have been mentions of it happening on this forum (me at Sunderland Road and Philly, Fozz at Philly and gmitchellhill at Washington).
I am aware of buses on Newcastle expresses at the Galleries diverting via Washington depot and changing vehicles after seeing it and hearing about it from friends/family too.
Whether it is right or wrong, who are we to judge.
It has happened and until someone states otherwise, it will keep happening.