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Pointing and Calling Japanese Safety Standard at Railway Companies & Toyota (HD)

AllAboutLean.com · 627.2K views · 2014-01-05 · 3:56

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A short documentary clip of Japanese railway workers and Toyota staff using pointing-and-calling, a safety practice of physically pointing at and naming things while working. It includes examples from several railway companies.

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HN finds it fascinating and suggests the technique for keeping operators like test drivers attentive.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2018–2022

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tga · 2018-06 · Recommendation

Contrary to many here, I feel that it's perfectly reasonable to have a backup human driver if they are trained to act accordingly . The Japanese pointing-and-calling technique comes to mind as a good example of keeping drivers engaged: they would have to continuously, actively point at dangers and at the car's appropriate response. [VIDEO] (quite fascinating to watch) Combine this with short sessions (not driving around for hours with nothing to do), and I think the driver would have had a reasonable chance of preventing this accident.

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yreg · 2022-04 · Reference

I was mesmerised how the Japanese train operators (and perhaps other similar workers) have to follow checklists where they physically point[0] at everything they are doing even when they are alone. Now I'm wondering whether this approach actually works. [0] - [VIDEO]

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zeristor · 2019-04 · Joke / meme

Perhaps they could pick up the Japanese train drivers pointing and calling: [VIDEO] Referring to things in multiple ways is supposed to have a more thorough confirmation, although not a good idea to point whilst wielding a scalpel.

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