Safety regulations in the subway: how to behave at the stations and on the train, to avoid problems
Survival / / December 23, 2019
Everyone knows that the subway - a zone of heightened danger. But we use it every day, so the instructions "how to ride the subway" seem silly. All obvious sat down and went, we did not read the rules of operation of the bus? Prevents and immunity to official instructions, no matter how human language they were written. However, six months of life in Moscow, I was faced with several dangerous situations in the subway, and now I know how they could have been avoided.
At the entrance and exit of the subway: hold the door
Old wooden door did not change even with the opening of the first stations. at the station door "Smolenskaya" weighing 110 kg to open them, you need to make an effort, as if you lifted 10 kg. At the stations built after 1959, put aluminum doors. They are three times lighter, but because of the displacement of their effect is called "crazy." If you do not fit into the rhythm of their movements, have to go to the doctor.
The good news is that aluminum doors are gradually replaced by new ones - fire resistant and less traumatic. The news is worse: the heavy wooden doors will remain as a monument of cultural heritage.
remember that
Use the free passage / doors. Hold the door for others. On the strong drafts open the door itself, not to hit coming from behind.
The escalator: be careful in a dress and heels
I never saw passengers sitting on the escalator steps. But regularly hear stories about zazhovannoy clothes and shoes. My friend got off the torn skirt, but this could have been avoided.
Accidents happen when the long edge of clothing or shoelaces fall into the gap between the moving and stationary parts of the escalator. Check out the special brushes on the sides of the escalator and yellow stripes on its steps. Their task - to not let you get too close to the stationary parts of the escalator.
If jams your clothes or shoes
Fuss, wave the hand, to stop the escalator. Neighbors in the chain will give your request to the dispatcher on duty. If you can, remove a piece of clothing or shoes that jammed. Keep your balance.
If the escalator suddenly stopped
Stay in place and firmly hold on to the handrails. Wait for instructions on duty.
If the problems of other passengers
Use the switch "Stop" to stop the escalator.
At the station: get away from the edge of the platform
Everyone with whom I spoke about security in the subway, asked how to escape from a train on rails. Surprisingly: everywhere hang instructions and posters, and we still argue, lie down or run.
Fallen person platform waiting for two dangers: the contact with the rail voltage of 825 V and a train arriving at a speed of 60 km / h. The contact rail is closed in orange jacket, goes along the platform, hidden under the edge of the platform. How to protect yourself from the train?
If you fall and can not see the train
- Do not approach the edge of the platform (there goes conductor rail).
- Run to the top platform of the train movement.
- Stay for the black-and-white rack and wait for help.
If you fell and the train approaching
- Lie down in the tray between the rails head to the train, face down.
- Remove from the back of the backpack, hold the upper floors of clothes and do not move.
- Wait for help.
If someone else has fallen on the rails
- Apply brake train driver: make circular motions with his hands.
- Call for help: press the SOS button on the red and blue emergency call terminal.
On the train: Do not lean against the doors of the car
The door can be opened while driving, if the accident occurred or in the driver's cab load switch opening the door.
Doors can be opened from the wrong side. My friend and I attended a swing and classified driver. The doors parted directly behind. We keep the balance, but drunk or an elderly person it would be given more difficult. Do not lean against the car door, it's a bad habit.
If you fell on the platform and injured
Get help from a staff member or the underground press SOS on a red-blue terminal in the lobby.
When the doors opened on a moving train
Step away from the door. Call the driver of emergency communication and report the incident. Name the number of the car, it is listed on the box of the calling device.
When the train stopped in the tunnel, and the doors opened
Stay inside the vehicle. Wait for the driver's instructions.
The human factor: the theft and harassment
How to resist thieves
The man jumped out at me from behind and grabbed my bag on the belt. At this point I was holding her tightly, so the thief jumped into the passing train without my stuff. Otherwise I would have had to rebuild maps and documents that would have taken 10 days to a month.
On the platform, keep things in front of him or cuddle: usually the thieves snatch them before closing the door. If you feel that something was wrong, abruptly turn around and step aside. If you see how they steal from another, make a fuss.
What to do if you are robbed
Note the time of the accident, the car number and marks of a criminal. Report the theft:
- SOS button through red-blue terminal in the lobby;
- machinist car for emergency communication;
- any employee of the Metro station.
How to deal with harassment
I discussed the topic of security in the metro with 10 friends. Five of them are mentioned as the main problem sexual harassment.
In a closed car nowhere to go, around noisy and crowded, so strangers with impunity, spreading his hands. If you do not meet resistance, move to become more active.
In one of these situations, I managed to jump out of the car. Pulled time, and then pushed abuser jumped to the station before closing the doors. In the other - I successfully pushed the crowd. After that I had to see a psychologist. Now I know how to behave in these situations, but I prefer to go home until 10 pm or by taxi.
- In the evening and at night return to the company, stay the night at a party or call a taxi proven.
- Choose a crowded carriages. If you have been the object of unwanted attention, Odakyu to passengers credible.
- At peak hours in a crowded train aggressor feels at ease: his actions are imperceptible to the crowd. Foreign passengers are ignoring the situation of harassment, as they consider pestering your male companion. Get help from a particular man in the crowd loudly and clearly looking in the face, with the words: "Help me, this person is behaving inappropriately. I do not know him. I'm scared, I can hide behind you, "Show fear - is normal. Will help you when they realize what is happening and what protection is needed: to change places, to push you to the aggressor.
- The half-empty car or transit usually operates another type of aggressors, who are willing to switch from dirty allusions to violence. As a rule, this is not the bullies and people with mental disorders. A few passengers or passers-by frightened and will leave you alone with the aggressor. At the first suspicions turn over the car to the engineer for emergency communication, on duty at the station, or press the SOS button on the red and blue terminal in the lobby.
Natalia Potapenkova, psychologistFrom a woman depends on this - to work with a sense of shame, if it interferes to defend. You have to be careful: sometimes it is better to distract from a book or a player. Be prepared for the fact that you have to ask for help. And to set the phone speed dial the person with whom there is such an agreement.
Where to go for medical help
In the subway from 5:30 to 1:00 work 200 doctors. At their disposal - a first aid kit and equipment to immediately call an ambulance.
At each station a lobby installed red-blue column emergency call. Press the SOS button, and your call will go immediately to the situation center. Tell us which individual stations was bad, if you can describe the symptoms. After 3-5 minutes to arrive at the station ambulance doctors.
Each car have an emergency call button with a machinist. Notify the emergency and name shown on the intercom number of the car. At the next station, the affected person will meet the doctors ambulance.
Each of station duty officer a first aid kit. Duty can be identified by the red hats.
Information terminals with SOS button is on every station of the Moscow metro. Calls come situation center operators. The column built-in camera, you will hear, see and help
Emergency-communication device to the driver. the wagon number is listed at the top. In some devices already mounted camcorder
Why the train stops and stands in the tunnel
I happened to take place in the train stopped for 25 minutes. The Internet is not caught, and, instead of Googling causes of such stops and calm down, I wrote sms know "just in case".
The main reasons for stopping trains
- Fault rolling or underground engineering devices. In this case, an enlarged range of railway traffic report on the speakerphone.
- Someone delayed departure of the previous train. Police displays bullies. Doctors take out a passenger for the provision of medical care. The driver checks the door control device is working properly because the passengers hold and do not let the door. All of the following trains are behind him in the tunnel.
- As directed by the train dispatcher, if the preceding train station is recovered abandoned objects.
Is Metro protect war
Many believe that only in the subway you can be saved, if the start war. Indeed, since 1945, in the lobbies of new stations or at the bottom of the escalators installed germodveri. They protect from the main damaging factors, chemical and biological weapons.
But the metro will not save from a direct hit by a nuclear bomb in the ground: at the epicenter of the explosion crater formed, under which everything will collapse.
Metro protect against:
- a shock wave,
- heat and radiation exposure.
If you hid in the subway, you will see nothing, you hear, you do not irradiate radiation, you will not suffer from the heat.
To the subway was to have a safe place in civilian life, observe its rules and use common sense.
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