(18 Nov 2013, 9:31 pm)gtomlinson wrote I would imagine GNE have a pretty airtight and highly expensive and extensive PL insurance policy that covers the company and its workplaces.
For example, an airplane hanger is off limits to the public. Yet BA still pay a fortune in insurance policies for it. After all GNE aren't some backwater little provincial company, they are part of one massive global entity.
If there was no insurance etc, there'd be no chance control or a senior manager would authorise a depot changeover. At the end of the day here we're talking about 10 seconds as person steps off a bus onto another. They aren't been taken on a guided tour of Saltmeadows or running through the pits at Chester
The thing with Bazza, safety aside is that he illegally enters private property. That is bad enough. But whilst a driver or staff are aware of the big red bus with the passengers they aren't aware of someone with a camera ogling for a view of a new livery. So I don't accept it being as black and white as that
Surely the public liability is needed for contractors, visitors, reps etc visiting a depot.
Withing that, there must be (or there was) some sort of clause/scope for passenger handovers - it has happened too many times for it to be a one off or the case of a driver making a mistake/ignoring policy.
The line Daniel quoted from the handbook was interesting.
If passengers are thrown off at the stop outside the depot due to a vehicle fault and something happens to a passenger when waiting for the new vehicle - are GNE washing their hands of liability, are they potentially liable because the passenger was made to wait there or are they covering their backsides by making sure the switchover happens off premises?