Train drivers who are transported to home depot or rest place
5 Train drivers who are transported to home depot or rest place
The following work scheduling practices and procedures apply to a rail safety worker who drives a train and who travels to a home depot or to a place provided for rest between shifts (a barracks), as a passenger in a train or other vehicle provided by the rail transport operator—
the period between signing on for a shift and reaching the home depot or barracks must not exceed 16 hours;
for the purposes of applying the requirements of clauses 2, 3 and 4 (and despite clause 1)—
in respect of the length and number of shifts—the time spent travelling to the home depot or barracks is not to be taken to be part of the shift worked; and
in respect of breaks between shifts—the break between a shift commences when the worker reaches the home depot or barracks;
the rail safety worker must not undertake any rail safety work or drive a motor vehicle after commencing to travel to the home depot or barracks and before signing off at the home depot or barracks.
Despite subclause (1), the rail safety worker is for any other purpose taken to have been rostered on for a shift ending when the worker signs off at the home depot or barracks.
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