Railway accidents and teetering on the edge of injury
Railway accidents can be very serious. They might involve a collision, a derailment, or some form of passenger injury sustained because of hazards inside a carriage.
Yet now, rail chiefs are looking to target one other kind of railway accident that, until now, has received little attention.
High heels, it seems, are becoming a major bugbear for railway station managers looking to minimise accidents and prevent themselves and their organisations facing personal injury compensation claims.
Nowhere is this more the case than in Scotland where staff at Glasgow Central Station are looking to warn female rail users to take more care when moving about the station, and, ideally, avoid wearing high heels where possible.
Posters asking the pertinent question "How are your heels?" have been put up around the station. Critics have claimed that the campaign is a trivial response to "no win, no fee culture"; however, its authors have claimed that it has so far been effective in reducing the numbers of accidents.
It also appears that the motivation behind the campaign has a sound rationale, with health and safety figures showing that women are two times more likely than men to be involved in a slip and trip accident while at a railway station.
A spokesperson from Network Rail comments on the footwear-related safety drive, "Every time someone has a fall we have to fill in a report. An analysis of these reports has shown that women are far more likely than men to be involved in an accident and that high-heeled shoes are often cited as a cause. "Since the posters have been put up there has been a reduction in the numbers of accidents recorded, which is obviously a positive development.
"With men, excessive use of alcohol is often involved. In other cases accidents are caused by people running for trains and not looking where they are going."
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