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News Wire: CSX hires consultant to improve safety

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Posted by Euclid on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:42 PM

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charlie hebdo
So back to the original post. Is it the contention here that CSX safety practices cannot benefit from an impartial examination by external experts?

 

When you have fired and released all the 'internal experts' as impediments to efficiency - any expert will do in a pinch as PR whitewash.

 

Sometimes you have to go outside of the organization to get a fresh perspective.  That is another definition of consultant. 

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 10:02 PM

Euclid
 
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charlie hebdo
So back to the original post. Is it the contention here that CSX safety practices cannot benefit from an impartial examination by external experts? 

When you have fired and released all the 'internal experts' as impediments to efficiency - any expert will do in a pinch as PR whitewash. 

Sometimes you have to go outside of the organization to get a fresh perspective.  That is another definition of consultant. 

Yep that the ticket.  Have a cadre that had CSX ranked #1 among the Class 1 carriers when I retired in December 2016.  EHH come on board March 2017 - fires everybody and wonders, from his grave, why safety tanked.  Yep need a fresh perspective from the bottom of the tank - glug, glug, glug.

The first three letters are most realistic about consultants.  They are con's.

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Posted by n012944 on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 10:28 PM

A quote for those blaming everything on EHH and his crew.

 

Brian Schmidt

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation, whose train accident and employee injury record has been deteriorating for five years

 

 

 

 

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 10:34 PM

[from the article also] "CSX’s train accident rate...now stands at about the level it was a decade ago."

Accident rates go up and down but 10 years ago EHH had ilch to do with CSX.  But some on here keep beating a dead horse, literally.  CSX's success or problems will persist beyond 2018.  What will the anti-EHH crowd say then?

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