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Any individual working on or around the track environment must be accopanied by protection master. Protection Masters rely on the Track Access Controller to keep them safe while they are working on the track (safe from traction current as well as moving trains and vehicles).

A protection master is defined as a person certificated by LU to

provide protection for themselves and others when on or about the

track:

• during traffic hours

• during engineering hours, or

• in a depot or stabling siding.

A protection master’s certificate will be endorsed to show either

traffic hours, engineering hours, depots or a combination of all

three.

A protection master is identified by an armband worn on the right

arm above the elbow.

Track Access Controllers are trained in many aspects of railway management. They are an "Operational manager" grade of London Underground and each must be competent to deal with multi-tasking, emergencies and conflicts of work. Their priorities are safety, completion of engineering work and the safe/timely return of the railway for passenger trains every morning. Track access controllers collaborate with others to resolve problems related to "overrunning engineering work".