HIDD-38 Response Historic

Urgently use outside consultants to review safety management and communication issues

Recommendation

The Court endorses the use of outside consultants to review safety management issues within BR and recommends that the consultants proceed with their programme with the greatest urgency looking particularly at problems of communication up and down the organisation.

Published Evidence Summary
The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
Sources
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Jurisdiction
UK-wide
Response
Historic

No government response recorded.

Source
Inquiry Hidden Inquiry
Report Hidden Inquiry — Final Report 27 Sep 1989
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Themes & Tags
Quality and safety oversight No open learning culture
Recommendation age 36.7 yrs
Last formal update No formal updates