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Title: Japanese "Point and Call" rail safety system
Post by: Bmblbzzz on December 06, 2017, 12:20:37
Railways in Japan developed a system called shisa kanko, which translates as "point and call," to keep staff alert both mentally and physically and focussing on relevant items or procedures. It is as it says: pointing at important items and saying what they are, in the process of work. So a driver points at the instruments in the cabin or at signals or platforms, a conductor points at doors and passengers when dispatching a train, and so on. There's a video on Youtube with English subtitles (the staff are speaking Japanese, obviously).
https://youtu.be/9LmdUz3rOQU
 


Title: Re: Japanese "Point and Call" rail safety system
Post by: JayMac on December 06, 2017, 16:49:52
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling


Title: Re: Japanese "Point and Call" rail safety system
Post by: Bmblbzzz on December 07, 2017, 17:16:19
It has a little in common with the police "running commentary" driving method, it seems to me.


Title: Re: Japanese "Point and Call" rail safety system
Post by: IndustryInsider on December 07, 2017, 21:13:28
Our railways increasing use ‘Press and Call’ and Risk Riggered Commentary which are means to the same end.  The reasoning is that if you verbally comment/call out when you do something it is far more likely to remain in your short term memory than it you just think it to yourself.  Pointing is just another way of achieving that aim.


Title: Re: Japanese "Point and Call" rail safety system
Post by: Chris from Nailsea on December 08, 2017, 03:11:06
Our railways increasing use ‘Press and Call’ and Risk Riggered Commentary which are means to the same end ...

Risk Triggered Commentary, perhaps - as explained in more detail here (https://www.rssb.co.uk/Library/Improving-industry-performance/2008-factsheet-risk-triggered-commentary-driving.pdf), on the UK's Rail Safety and Standards Board website.

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