Course description
Introduction to Railway Safety
This course focuses on the basic elements of risk analysis, accident investigation and safety management for the railways. The course starts off with a discussion of the foundational issues in safety and risk management and supplements it with basic risk analysis techniques for the railways, allowing learners to gain a deepened understanding of the mechanics of safety and risk management.
A significant amount of time is dedicated to accident investigations and accident reports because they provide key insights into the problems, solutions and management of safety. The delivery of safety is treated through railway safety regulations and management. Finally, the course discusses the keystone of successful implementation through safety management systems for the railways.
Level: Technical
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is for graduates or those with three or more years of experience in the railway industry or other engineering disciplines with an affinity with the railway industry:
- Junior and medior railway engineers in Train Operation Companies/Freight Operation Companies/Infrastructure Managers/Railway Supply Chain (TOC/FOC/IM/RDG)
- Junior and medior railway safety personnel (TOC/FOC/IM/RDG)
- Medior and senior managers in the railway industry
- Senior lawyers in the railway industry wanting to understand safety engineering principles
- Technical railway engineering students around the world
- Medior management in railway organisations
- Junior consultants in railway engineering
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Relate practical safety barriers, findings in reports and risk analysis to abstract safety management frameworks
- Evaluate and perform basic risk analysis for the UK rail network
- Extract key points from safety reports and accident investigation reports
- Gain insight into the mechanics of safety delivery on the railways
Training Course Content
Units included in this course
- Introductory Unit
- Unit 1: What is Safety?
- Unit 2: What is Risk?
- Unit 3: Failure Statistics and Risk Triplet
- Unit 4: Consequences and Risk Triplet
- Unit 5: Railway Risks
- Unit 6: Risk Tolerability and ALARP
- Unit 7: Barrierology
- Unit 8: Introduction to Safety Management
- Unit 9: Railway Safety Strategies in Great Britain
- Unit 10: Signalling and Railway Accidents
- Unit 11: Basic Elements of Accident Investigation
- Unit 12: Finding Causes of Accidents
- Unit 13: Understanding Causes
- Unit 14: Procedures for Technical Safety Delivery
- Unit 15: Risk Analysis for Delivering Technical Safety
- Unit 16: Safe Working
- Unit 17: The Human Operator
- Unit 18: Safety Culture
- Unit 19: Final Assessment
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