Haha not only that... If you have done good research, you would
know that JR West is one of those JR companies which treat their
staff the worst.
Make a small mistake (in our terms perhaps, their terms is big)
like overshooting by 50 meters or more, late arrival of 1 minute or
more (they would use reasons such as passengers not being able to
transfer to other trains and cause trouble for them) and face all
kinds of punishment like temporary suspension from work and
're-education' (日勤教育), like one driver had it, those punished stood
at the roof (from how it was wrote, I would assume that to be a
building's roof) next to Kiyoubashi station (京橋駅) and shouted to
departing trains "ごくろうさまです。気を付けて下さい。"(Thanks for the hard work! Be
careful!) for 1 and half hour in the morning, 3 hours in the
afternoon (Pg 79, RA2007-3-1 Accident Report). Among these, they
will also drill questions and shout loudly at drivers/staff who
made mistakes. Often these punishments come with a month of
suspension from work and deduction of pay. This was also one of the
reasons that shaped the accident on that fateful 25th April...
Definitely not a good company to work with if you like a conducive
environment. Just think how much stress those folks go
through...
The transport ministry also go deep into every accident and
inciden that happens to the public transport companies, and make
the reports online for the public to refer to. Often these
are just research materials, but it shows the hard work that people
put in to create a almost seamless transport system.