GERT8000-HB11 Iss 11

Section 4.1, ‘Confirming the details with the signaller’, has been revised so that the person in charge of the possession (PICOP) is now required to contact each signaller who controls a protecting signal leading to the line under possession, and make all the necessary arrangements with each of those signallers.

A new requirement has been introduced to Section 4.2, ‘Taking possession around one or more engineering trains’ so that the PICOP is required to tell drivers that the possession has been granted before authorising them to move.

‘Back-to-back’ possessions are now permitted when the protection is placed in relation to points as well as signals, providing no movements will take place from one possession into another. The necessary instructions have now been included in section 4.3. A clarification has been added in the same section on back-to-back possessions that it is not necessary for detonator protection to be at the standard distance.

Obsolete references to safe work leader (SWL) have been removed throughout sections four, six, eight, eleven and twelve.

The changes form part of the suite of general updates issued annually which are intended to improve understanding and application of the content of the Rule Book and provide opportunities for duty holders to operate more efficiently.