Canadian Pacific launched an awareness campaign that highlights the safety benefits of the proactive use of inward-facing cameras, also known as locomotive video and voice recorders (LVVR). The technology can be used to reduce risk, improve safety, and assist in preventing accidents.
The company continues to urge the Minister of Transport to pass new legislation that would maximize these benefits. The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has been calling on Transport Canada to mandate this technology since 2012. Current regulations allow inward-facing cameras to be used only by the TSB for post-incident investigation.
CP is prepared to further invest in and install inward-facing cameras, if they can be used to proactively improve safety. The use of this technology would immediately enhance a culture of safety and accountability in the rail sector.
“We are proud to be running the safest railway in North America, but we can always do better and having the ability to use inward-facing cameras allows us to be even safer. This is a preventative, proactive, behaviour-changing tool the industry should have been allowed to use years ago,” said Keith Creel, CP’s President and Chief Executive Officer.
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