Just to clarify something. As I believe, the company did try to discipline a pilot over the handrail incident but had to back down. None of us flying from that base had/have copies of the safety orders for all the rigs we fly to, so how can we be expected to obey them. Secondly, there would have been quite a backlash from the pilots had he been disciplined. The most sensible thing to do was done, and an instruction was issued requiring us to use the 'Three Point Contact Method' when using the stairs on any installation.
As for the Dracon, all I've heard of is a Balpa note to say that the CC chairs should rise this issue with their respective companies and that there should be no change to normal working practices in the interim. If anyone knows more...
Brom.