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Legislative CouncilSelect Committee on Train Services
Alan OsborneDirector, Public Transport Safety
Chris McKeownGeneral Manager Safety Systems
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Rail safety regulation
› Operators required to comply with the Victorian Rail Safety Act 2006
› Essentially requires the safety accreditation of rail operators and monitoring ongoing performance
› Key priority is the prevention of catastrophic train accidents
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Rail accidents – Australian focus
› A 10 year chronology of significant accidents….
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Glenbrook, NSW – December 1999
Source: Emergency Management NSW – downloaded on 2/09/09 from:http://www.emergency.nsw.gov.au/content.php/646.html
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Holmesglen, Vic. – July 2000
Source: Department of Transport
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Footscray, Vic. – June 2001
Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau
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Epping, Vic. – June 2002
Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau
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Epping – Additional view
Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau
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Waterfall, NSW – January 2003
Source: The Age
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Broadmeadows, Vic. - February 2003
Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau
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Trawalla, Vic. - April 2006
Source: Railpage.com.au
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Kerang, Vic. - June 2007
Source: Daily Telegraph
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Reduction in system type events over the last 3 years
› Rail Safety Act 2006 (Vic) represented an incremental improvement in rail system safety
› Kerang accident has been the most serious accident since the Act came into operation - a road accident which seriously impacted on the rail system
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We must remain vigilant
› Management of issues which could lead to serious events eg:› broken rails (derailment risk)› track buckling (derailment risk)› tri-colour signals (collision risk)› train braking (collision risk)
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Broken rail performance over 3 years
Track & civil infrastructure irregularity - broken rail
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3
9 10
18 1816
0
5
10
15
20
25
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007200820092007 Trend2008 Trend2009 Trend
Heavy rail Victoria 2007 - 2009
Trend: M oving average 3mthSource: PTSV Occurrence Database. Data as reported to PTSV from Accredited Operator.
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Buckled track performance over 3 years
Track & civil infrastructure irregularity - buckled track
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5
1 0 1 03
00
5
10
15
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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007200820092007 Trend2008 Trend2009 Trend
Heavy rail Victoria 2007 - 2009
Trend: M oving average 3mthSource: PTSV Occurrence Database. Data as reported to PTSV from Accredited Operator.
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Derailment performance over 3 years
Derailments - running line
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0 0
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0 00
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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007200820092007 Trend2008 Trend2009 Trend
Heavy rail Victoria 2007 - 2009
Trend: M oving average 3mthSource: PTSV Occurrence Database. Data as reported to PTSV from Accredited Operator.
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SPAD performance over 3 years
Signals passed at danger - human error
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3 3
9
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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007200820092007 Trend2008 Trend2009 Trend
Heavy rail Victoria 2007 - 2009
Trend: M oving average 3mthSource: PTSV Occurrence Database. Data as reported to PTSV from Accredited Operator.
Human error SPADs include driver misjudged, completely missed while running and starting against signal. Excludes other.
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Management of rail safety
› Maintaining good engineering inspection regimes to monitor event precursors
› Putting safety ahead of operational performance› Using speed restrictions to manage safety with
identified problems› Recent international accidents provide examples
of where this has not occurred….
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Chatsworth, LA – September 2008
Source: Los Angeles Times ‘Federal inquiry into Chatworth finds rail oversight woefully inadequate’
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Washington – June 2009
Source: The Telegraph
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Dublin - August 2009
Source: Irish Independent‘Calls for major investigation into rail safety’
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Importance of safety culture
› We have a good operational safety culture in the rail network in Victoria
› This means safety performance must come ahead of operational performance
› It is very important that this continues
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Summary
› PTSV is proactively monitoring the safety performance of Victoria’s railways
› We have seen a reduction of system type accidents in Victoria over the last 3 years
› We must though continue to be vigilant› This has required the rail network to slow
down or stop on occasions