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confiscated and destroyed, well, that must be galling. Will Gompertz, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening. A rail worker who was hit by a train | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
in Saxilby near Lincoln died as a result of a string of broken and | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
ignored safety procedures. That was the finding of a Rail Accident | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Investigation Branch report into the death of 26`year`old Scott Dobson, | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
who was killed in December 2012. It adds to concerns about the lack of | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
safety precautions for thousands of casual rail workers. Paul Murphy | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
reports. This is an industry which, by its | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
very nature, is hazardous. But is safety taken seriously enough? It is | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
December 2012, early in the afternoon on a railway line near | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
Saxilby in Lincolnshire. A gang of workers are repairing the track. One | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
of the workers steps back just as a train is passing. He doesn't | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
survive. Network Rail called the death of Scott Dobson a watershed | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
moment, and promised new safety rules. Scott had been hired that day | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
by an agency. Many in the industry say safety is compromised by the use | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
of such casual staff. We have spoken to track workers who have done | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
casual shifts for renewals companies across the North of England. They | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
tell us bad safety practices are widespread. I lost work with one | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
client, one agency, for a year because I wouldn't do work that | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
wasn't safe. More than a year on, Scott's family still has questions | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
about the safety of the gang on that day at Saxilby. Why were they there | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
when they knew, all that gang, that somebody would have been in danger? | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
81,000 people are registered to work on railway. Only a quarter of them | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
are Network Rail staff. Scott Dobson's death has forced the | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
company to rethink the way they manage this workforce. We will no | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
longer expect safety`critical workers to be employed by agency | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
contracts. They will only be employed by Network Rail or our | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
principal contractors. We need to make sure this is the last fatality, | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
and we will make sure any changes to ensure that is the case. Scott had | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
been hired that day by a recruitment company called sky`blue, a | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
subsidiary of the engineering giant Carillion. They tell us they are | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
unable to comment on specific questions or issues related to | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
Scott's death until after an inquest and further enquiry. They do however | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
say that they go to great lengths to ensure their workforce know they can | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
raise safety concerns, and that these will be acted upon. Since the | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
incident, they say, they have gone beyond industry standards to put in | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
place new safety procedures. Network Rail has said that by September, | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
many of its new safety reforms will be in place ` too late for Scott's | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
family, but aimed at preventing a repeat of the terrible events which | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
took his life. Paul is out on the rail network this | :02:59. | :03:09. | |
evening. Paul, do you think there will be genuine safety improvements | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
as a result of Scott Dobson's death? The who you talk to. It is the view | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
of the union that there are still far too many casual staff working on | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
our Railways, still too many short`term contracts. Not enough | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
emphasis on health and safety on the job, or run the Railways. The | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
current `` company could not disagree more. They say that his | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
death was a watershed moment, that they have reviewed all of their | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
procedures. Their permanent members of staff are now in charge of safety | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
when it comes to track renewal jobs, and they are hoping and doing | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
everything they can to prevent this happening again. Thank you. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
A 33`year`old man's been arrested after armed police cordoned off a | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
Lincolnshire village. An armed response unit was sent to the High | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Street in Ruskington after reports of an armed man inside a flat. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Trained negotiators persuaded the suspect to come out peacefully. | :04:11. | :04:25. | |
Parents in East Yorkshire are being told that their children could still | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
attend school, even if they have an infectious illness. Conjunctivitis, | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
tonsillitis and hand, foot and mouth are classed as "minor ailments" in a | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
leaflet being made available across the county. Caroline Bilton reports. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
They can't be happy and healthy all the time ` but on the days when | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
they're sick, should they be here? In the East Riding of Yorkshire, | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
parents have been given this leaflet to help them make that decision. In | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
the list of reasons to not necessarily keep your child off | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
school are contagious diseases like conjunctivitis, hand, foot and mouth | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
disease, and tonsillitis. Especially conjunctivitis is very contagious, | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
particularly the viral form, like pink eye. If you have a an outbreak | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
of that in school, it is nasty. It can last ten days or a week. But | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
last year in secondary schools in England, 55% of authorised absences | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
were due to illness. In the East Riding, that figure was 60% ` the | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
second`highest in the country. The local authority says it's acting on | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
advice from both the government and the NHS. The decision about sending | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
a child to school remains with parents. We're not saying anything | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
other than that. We want parents to use their intuition and judgement | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
and common sense, because parents know their children best. Do you | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
want a child with tonsillitis in the classroom? Obviously not. We have a | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
duty of care to our staff and the other children at the school. We | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
have a balancing act to do. We want children to maximise their time in | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
school, and we don't want them to be here when they are infectious. My | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
elder daughter suffers with earache quite a bit. I just think they are | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
best off at home. ?? YELLOW You stay at home, nip it in the bud ` that's | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
the end of it. If it is contagious, obviously, then the child should | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
stay off to stop it spreading. Other than that, if they can keep going, | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
it is best for them to do that. It may be just a day off here and | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
there, but they do add up over a child's entire school life, and | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
research shows it can affect academic achievement. The local | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
authority hopes these latest guidelines will help parents think | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
twice before keeping their child off school. Caroline Bilton, BBC Look | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
North. Let's get a look at the weather now. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Here's Paul Hudson with the forecast. | :06:34. | :06:34. | |
It is fine at the moment, but rain is on the way. Tomorrow should | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
brighten up quite nicely with some sunshine. In the early hours of the | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
morning, the rain will move into western areas. It won't give a great | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
deal of rain. It could still be hanging around towards the coast by | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
the end of the night. Temperatures down to three degrees. Perhaps a | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
damp start, particularly towards the Yorkshire coastline. The rain soon | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
clears and brightens up with some sunshine, and just one or two | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
showers. All in all, not a bad day. Temperatures close to the early | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
February averages of seven degrees Celsius. Very unsettled on | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Wednesday. Showers or longer spots of rain. It improves again on | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Thursday. Fine and some sunshine. Just one or two showers. That is the | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
forecast. That's all from the late team. | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
Newsnight is on BBC Two with a story of a spokesman who they kidnap gang | :07:26. | :07:26. | |
in Pakistan. That is all. Goodbye. Good evening. As you have just heard | :07:27. | :07:40. | |
on your local forecast there | :07:41. | :07:41. |