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Health and Safety - Consider the moral implication of the case of the Watford train crash of August 1996.
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Business and Management Ethics Module code: BCH1H01 Module Leader: David Dyer Health and Safety Consider the moral implication of the case of the Watford train crash of August 1996. Student ID: 0114086/ 2 Introduction Health and safety is an important issue in business management ethics. The development of safety methodologies and ethics evolved from the design and operation of chemical plant, refinery projects and in any infrastructure such as railways. In the 1990's, as train services became more demanding, the safety departments were significantly larger than before and reported to Network Rail's infrastructure. Tools such as quantitative risk analysis had become available and been commonly used. The systems such as supervisory systems had developed significantly with the initiation of distributed train control systems and backup systems. However, not all the rail lines adopted this system. As the rail network became privatised in 1994, it has cracked the rail network when they handed it over to operators seeking to...
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