Assuring the appropriate quality and safe performance of the wheel-rail interface requires skilled interventions of many different types. The authors of the present paper have studied one particular set of activities that forms part of the overall track maintenance task, namely, the assessment of rails for fitness for purpose using visual inspection and ultrasonic testing. The paper is based on interviews with track workers and observations collected as part of a sociological study of railway track maintenance systems conceived in the aftermath of the Hatfield accident of October 2000. Quotations and excerpts from interviews are marked thus [Int. xy], while conversations during fieldwork are marked [FW. xy]. (13 pages)


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    Title :

    Workforces in complex environments - a railway maintenance case study


    Contributors:
    Wilson, A. (author) / Schmid, F. (author) / MacKenzie, D. (author)

    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    1 pages



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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