How Would You Maintain the Minimum Safety During Rail Works?

The rail network always demands a huge and various types of workforce to maintain, operate and upgrade the system 24/7. As much as the rail work gives good salary, the irregularity of timings in the job, monotonous work and other factors can take a toll on the worker’s health which may cause big accidents in some way or the other. The health and well-being of the railway workers can’t be underestimated. There have been many cases of accidents and incidents due to psychological health condition which has incurred working in these crazy shifts for hours. So, to prevent these issue, rail work should be done with all safety measurements, and the workers must avail adequate leaves to remove their stress from their mind.

Reasons for Psychological Problems in Rail Work

It’s very challenging to work in railway service just because of the responsibility level the job demands both psychologically and physically from an individual. Thus, the huge number of rail work-related factors contributes to stress among the workers. These factors are very crucial to know the reason for rising psychological issues and should be looked after properly to make good work-life balance for the workers.

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Working Alone

It is very often found that an individual has to be alone in some circumstances or is posted to a remote area to fulfill his/her work in the railway sectors. In railway sector, these lone workers mostly include platform staff, ticket officer, delivery drivers, train managers and engineers. Human are social animal and being working alone for days, weeks and months can affect on their minds. It can generate the risk of taking some wrong decisions which is highly dangerous in the service of rail work as it also includes huge number of passengers.

No Proper Working Schedules

In this sector, working means to work in various shifts for long hours and to be present when being ‘on-call’. Many have stated that they are going through a bad patch in life and now they must choose between these ridiculous working hours and their family. As in the case of train drivers, perception and vigilance is must along with their ability to recognize and quickly respond to signals. Fatigue during these times can affect the normal reasoning mind and might trigger some wrong decisions from the driver’s side causing a huge accident. Hours of their work schedule must be properly balanced to reduce any fatigue in rail work.

Violence

Violence in work space can affect any person what-so-ever and when victims are attacked or harassed publicly by third party attackers like passengers even without any faults of their, the situation gets worse. It can psychologically hurt badly and making the efficiency and quality of their work degrade as well as shattering them from inside.

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Monotony in a Job’s Content

Railway sector has the one of the largest sector to have huge number of workers like other important sectors, such as industrial services, health services, financial services, defense sector etc. But the regular physical labors are making the rail work very monotonous. Now all they must do in many occasions is to press a button remotely and the work is done by the emerging technology. In the process making the workers feel monotony and not excited for the work. Even some time they do not have the urge to work and they just complete their work forcefully. So in this regard, the rail authority needs to provide adequate training and leaves to their workers.

With adequate planning and assessment these major psychological problems can be reduced from the work atmosphere.