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Gareth Dennis

What Hendy has done is misconduct in a public office. Worse, it shows what his attitude is towards people who advocate for the railway but want to fix it rather than clap for it.

If the railway's supposedly open safety culture stands for anything, his position is untenable.

29 August at 6:51 | Open on mas.to
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Gareth Dennis

It should go without saying that his conduct also precludes his fitness to chair the National Railway Museum's Advisory Board.

29 August at 6:51 | Open on mas.to
Gareth Dennis

Meanwhile, I expect a full and public apology from Network Rail and from Systra.

Alongside Peter Hendy, they've wrongfully denied me a job I was extremely proud to have earned, and made the last three months of my life hell. They must now make that right, publicly.

29 August at 6:51 | Open on mas.to
James Jefferies

@GarethDennis bloody hell - don’t keep up so much with you since dumping twitter, but what a scandal - let us know if there are ways in which we can support you.

29 August at 7:07 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
Thermite Be Giants

@jamesjefferies @GarethDennis if you have visited, donated to or even considered visiting the National Railway Museum in York or other members of the Science Museum Group such as Locomotion Shildon then you have power, especially if you are yourself a member of a professional organisation with a code of ethics that you are required to uphold and adhere to that has provisions about retaliation.
You can write them a strongly-worded letter about your concerns about his ethics, and how that reflects on their organisation that Peter Hendy is the Chair of the National Railway Museum’s Advisory Board. I’ll be posting up what I’ll be sending to them at some stage soon

@jamesjefferies @GarethDennis if you have visited, donated to or even considered visiting the National Railway Museum in York or other members of the Science Museum Group such as Locomotion Shildon then you have power, especially if you are yourself a member of a professional organisation with a code of ethics that you are required to uphold and adhere to that has provisions about retaliation.
You can write them a strongly-worded letter about your concerns about his ethics, and how that reflects...

29 August at 8:28 | Open on aus.social
Matt

@ThermiteBeGiants @jamesjefferies @GarethDennis I might write to them as an outraged rail professional. After all, it's a pretty outrageous story.

29 August at 8:37 | Open on social.chinwag.org
Thermite Be Giants

@matt @jamesjefferies @GarethDennis might be worth talking to the Union as well, I’m sure they have something to say about retaliation against railway workers over safety issues!

29 August at 8:41 | Open on aus.social
Zach (Ela) - TechnicalOtter

@jamesjefferies @GarethDennis probably the best thing is to write to your MP if you’re in the UK (which I’m guessing you are from your instance).
You can express a concern in Hendy’s position that way.

29 August at 9:07 | Open on historians.social
Q ✨

@GarethDennis How awful - absolutely scandalous!

I have written to my MP about this.

29 August at 11:08 | Open on glauca.space
Jfrench

@GarethDennis just curious, do you know how the safety concerns were supposedly "put to bed" in December?

That phrase sounds decidedly like weasel wording. Like they didn't actually resolve the safety issue itself, but stopped it being flagged somehow.

29 August at 12:01 | Open on cupoftea.social
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@jfrench @GarethDennis the 'safety issue' was this man's professionalism, they got him sacked so now the problem as been 'put to bed'

How corrupt is the UK I wonder?

29 August at 13:03 | Open on mastodon.social
Ban El Al from our skies

@GarethDennis Perhaps - but did the person raise the concern with Network Rail before going to the papars?

29 August at 9:02 | Open on masto.ai
Jfrench

@JohnLoader6 @GarethDennis they were just reiterating a concern the regulators had already raised.

Network rail say the concerns were "put to bed" in-between so were no longer relevant, however they don't actually say they did anything toresolve them.

29 August at 11:53 | Open on cupoftea.social
Schroedinger

@GarethDennis Misconduct definitely. I agree that he needs to go. If he cannot take safety issues seriously (i.e. act on them, not silence them) then he should not have any role in a safety-critical environment.

29 August at 9:56 | Open on metalhead.club
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