For human error, but expected in the event of a train derailment at Tempi, Mr. George Perivoliotis, NTUA electrical engineer, prosecutor’s office expert and technical consultant on labor and facility safety in a conversation with “K”.

“Detection of two trains going in opposite directions on the same line is a serious human error, but it is a human error from which the whole railway cannot in any case “freeze”,” emphasizes the expert, who, among other things, asked to take care of the last year’s Euroferry accident near Corfu, as well as the recent accident with a toy that derailed at Allou Fun Park.

As he explains, human error is not only expected, but something that even the best worker can do, to a greater or lesser extent. “And precisely because we expect it, there must be a safety net, as well as security measures and, of course, protocols to ensure that the system will function satisfactorily even after an error. There doesn’t seem to be any security mechanism here. This means that the problem is multiple: organizational, administrative, structural.”

An additional problem, he says, is that it’s missing another piece, risk analysis, which is essential, especially in organizations that deal with so many human lives.

In fact, Mr. Perivoliotis notes the following: “My experience has shown me that many accidents of this kind are due to poor / inferior working conditions of employees who often make mistakes and miscalculations, are under pressure and stress. . I emphasize this because we see that so far there is a unilateral attribution of responsibility in this particular case.

It is noted that in an interview with “K”, the representative of the employees on the board of directors of TRAINOSE, Vassilis Zavoyannis, said that neither signaling nor remote control works on this particular line, when trains move, not a little, not as much as 30 years ago.

Especially for remote control system, Mr. Zavoyannis emphasized that yes there is, however, it never worked. “This is what the unions have been calling for since 2018, when the route began to pass through the Callidromou tunnel, after Tiforea, to Lianoklady, instead of the route that had previously passed through Amphicleia, Lilaia and Bralos. Remote control and alarms were an important part of the line’s modernization, but they have caught on.”

Mister. Zavoyannis also emphasized as picture for course routes did not have transparent. “WITHI think about it like yesterday, right?for a whole 45 minutes we were looking for which section of the route the train“.