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Greg Morse LHSBR Editor and Operational Feedback Lead - Health and Safety Management A Better, Safer Railway
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Greg MorseLHSBR Editor and Operational Feedback Lead -
Health and Safety Management
A Better, SaferRailway
Travelling by rail hasn’t been easy recently – for any of us.
But now all Britain’s rail companies are pulling together –
doing whatever it takes to return you to a national rail network you
can depend on.
Wednesday 17th October 2001
20
4060
80
100
1200
Mile/h
20
40 60
80
1000
Brake pipe
Four fatalities
70 injured
Four seriously injured, including two members of staff
20mph
20mph
20mph
20mph
20mph
Alastair Morton
Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority
Gauge corner
An incomplete appreciation of the risks presented by gauge
corner cracking, and
A consequent failure to develop and disseminate comprehensive
instructions on its identification and the control measures
required’.
Contact point
U3ProbeU14
Probe
Sep 2000Mar 1995
Sep 2000
U3Probe
untestableTotal loss of
rail bottom
Jan 2001
Jul2000Jun
2000May 2000Apr
2000Mar 2000Nov 1999
Oct 92000
100mph
100mph
I have never been trained to recognise Gauge Corner
Cracking or understand what risks it brought with it.
Target 6 per year
1997 1998 1999 2000
Trac
k w
alks
Target 6 per year
1997/88 1998/99 1999/00
Cab
rid
es
Railtrack LNE Compliance and Engineering Manager –Was unable to follow a discussion of track work at Hitchin because
he didn’t understand its technical nature.
The Zone Quality Standards Manager -Had neither ‘knowledge of railway engineering nor railway safety’
Piper Alpha 6-7th July 1988167 fatalities
David Ventry, Professional Head of Track at Railtrack HQ.
‘a key driver in the rise in the number of broken rails is the current poor maintenance or, more precisely, the lack of adequate and
appropriate maintenance’.
Nov 1999May 1999
David Ventry, Professional Head of Track at Railtrack HQ.
the current state of the track on parts of our network [was] heading towards the boundary of acceptability’,
there was ‘widespread noncompliance’ with track maintenance standards and good practice.
the ‘balance between commercial drivers and safety’ was ‘overwhelmingly towards the commercial’
Nov 1999May 1999
1997/88 1998/99
Bro
ken
Rai
ls
21%
755
937
Tom Windsor Rail Regulator
More clarity on what Railtrack deemed acceptable?
Nov 1999Aug 1999
Nov 1999Aug 1999
Project Destinystrategy
Replacing assets only when necessary and
not at fixed time
Need excellent knowledge of one’s
asset condition
Nov 1999Aug 1999
Project Destinystrategy
Replacing assets only when necessary and
not at fixed time
Asset?
Condition?
Expiry?Asset
Database
‘that he alerted senior colleagues to the non-compliant state of rail maintenance, however, Railtrack as an organisation, failed to implement
and monitor his advice to ensure rails were properly maintained’
David Ventry, Professional Head of Track at Railtrack HQ.
May 2000Jan
1999Early 1998
Poor Maintenance
Non-compliance with standards
Zone DirectorNick Pollard
Please investigate
it [was] very clear from recent events that [it was] not providing resources adequate to tasks and scope of the
maintenance contract’
Nov 2000May 2000Tom Windsor
Rail Regulator
Transport Technology
Centre
Metallurgy
Ultrasonic railflaw detection
Wheel-rail interaction
Brake design Suspension design
20022001
2001 2002
Pro
fits
£733m Hatfield compensation
and costs
£200m
£-200m
£199m
£534m
Nov 2000
The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
£10,000,000+
£300,000
Sept 20052002
£3,500,000+
£300,000
Sept 2005
Sept 2005
2000Sept 2005
Safety Case containing a Safety Management
System
April20062000
Safety Certificate or Safety Authorisation
April2006
Ladbroke Grove Accident 1999
Lord Cullen Inquiry
Railway Safety
Railway Safety
RiskAnalysis
Standards ReportingResearch and Development
System Interface Committees
Vehicle/Track systems interface
Vehicle/Structures
systems interface
Vehicle/Train Energy systems
interface
Whole system interface
Data & Information
systems interface
Vehicle/Train control &
communications
Vehicle/Vehicle system interface
Vehicle/Track systems interface
Vehicle/Structures
systems interface
Vehicle/Train Energy systems
interface
Whole system interface
Data & Information
systems interface
Vehicle/Train control &
communications
Vehicle/Vehicle system interface
1970-2010 2010 - 2020
Bro
ken
Rai
lsA
vera
ge p
er
year
400
200
750 per year
150 per year
600
800
Corporate Memory ?
Greg MorseLHSBR Editor and Operational Feedback Lead
Health and Safety Management
A Better, SaferRailway
