(31 Jan 2021, 7:35 pm)Malarkey wrote Then the company should be putting further measures in place to ensure all members of staff are working within a safe working environment which from what you have just posted is not the case, again as noted in my previous post Go North East have placed their Driver Training Fleet at various Bus Station to provide extra space to ensure staff are kept within a safe environment whilst on a meal break.

Where exactly would you like ANE to park and source these buses from? 

As far as I'm aware breaks happen in the following locations in Northumbria alone:
Alnwick
Ashington
Morpeth
Blyth
Haymarket

That's 5 places, 2 of which are nowhere near depots, and accounts for most if not all of the ANE training fleet. Of course you then also need to take into account that as far as I'm aware there is/was still ongoing driver training. They could place service buses there, but then could you imagine the complaints if service was dropped while something was parked up at Alnwick with one driver sat on it. 

I'm equally led to believe that, after the events at Darlington, there have been quite stringent measures put in place for the actual break rooms. I'm not too sure what Arriva, or any company for that matter, can do about drivers congregating in open air - I'm sure if it was that big an issue at Haymarket then the police would have something to say about the matter.