Eastern Railroad Discussion > Sanitizing a locomotive cab?

When taking over a locomotive, do engineers and conductors sanitize the surfaces they're likely to use?  The hand rails to get up, door handles, knobs, mic and horn buttons, and the various arm rests, fridge door, etc.  Or just rely on gloves and masks?

It would seem the company is responsible to deliver a safe and clean workplace, but I don't think I'd rely on that.

Cab? You've gotta get there first! Crew Van, grabs, door handles, locker handles etc and then worry about the cab. The virus life on hard
surfaces is troubling enough then you sit down! Virus doesn't seem to like alcohol, a spray bottle of full strength isopropyl might be useful. 

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Many people carry a can of wipes and compulsively do the whole cab....we have one who is a transplant patient and he HAS to clean the cab for the sake of his health! So long as the company has said that they intend to provide sanitary cab conditions they have taken up the responsibility to do so. Whether it will get done at every possible occasion is questionable that's true, and so those employees that have always wiped down their workplace will continue with vigor. 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/20 09:18 by engineerinvirginia.

I'm not sure if there's 6 ft. distance between people inside the cab, but the real concern should be once another person coughs or sneezes and droplets are airborne inside an enclosed space like the cab of a locomotive or a passenger van full of employees (certainly less than 6 feet apart). How many asymptomatic employees are carrying covid-19 but still working because they feel fine?

Incidentally, aren't they required to talk on radios?  How is that done effectively with masks on ?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/20 19:38 by Molino.

Don’t forget the crew room computer that has everyone logging in at reporting time to check their time ticket and bulletin orders, and at the end of the day to tie up their hours of service report.

RGTower Wrote:
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> Don’t forget the crew room computer that has
> everyone logging in at reporting time to check
> their time ticket and bulletin orders, and at the
> end of the day to tie up their hours of service
> report.

FWIW we can now do a quick tie up on crewlife, though you will still have to show up at a terminal to do the whole ticket and get paid.