2013/03

Cominor AS has a management system that contains statutory and company requirements, and where requirements and procedures for drivers are included in the driver's manual. The information AIBN has received from the passengers in the coach nevertheless indicates that the drivers gave information about the use of seatbelts to a varying degree. AIBN is critical towards the coach being used for this long-distance trip when Cominor AS was aware that its seatbelts were too short. Scania and Cominor AS had an agreement to replace the seatbelts in the coach with longer ones after returning from Murmansk.

AIBN recommends that Cominor AS review and improve its management system to ensure that the material used has correctly-fitted safety equipment and that procedures that contribute to the proper use are followed up.