Challenges facing rail industry operators

Train drivers face a unique set of risks. Driver incapacitation and vigilance are a major focus for rail industry operators as a result of recent incidents where trains have continued to run after the driver has become incapacitated.

Such events pose a significant risk prompting steps to greater accountability in the rail industry. Operators now have a duty of care to ensure their employees’ fitness for duty by implementing secondary intervention devices.

How Optalert can help

Optalert has developed a new safety system for the continuous assessment of the fitness of a driver, in which it is possible to achieve complete objectivity, as it requires no input from the drivers themselves. Optalert’s technology can effectively and reliably detect driver incapacitation within three seconds.

Optalert is not only able to detect if a rail driver has become incapacitated, but also if drowsiness or inattention are present within the driver and provides warnings to prevent an incident occurring.

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