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International railway practices
ITSR commissioned Lloyd’s Register Rail to conduct a review of international railway practices in a number of key safety areas.
The objective of the review was not to benchmark performance but to learn from good practices in Australia, the UK, Europe (The Netherlands, Germany and France), North America (Canada and USA), and two north east Asian countries.
Practices in five safety areas
Key findings of the review suggest that better practice means:
- a combination of both procedures and engineering solutions for worksite protection in the rail corridor
- better practice in worksite protection - rail operators assuming the highest degree of responsibility for the actions of their contracting suppliers
- better practice in contractor safety management - applying a “rule set” approach (based on specified variables) to determine the level of protection required for level crossings and increasing surveillance and control measures
- better practice in level crossing safety management - a systems engineering approach for new infrastructure developments and well-defined processes for certifying that infrastructure is fit for operation
- better practice in compliance with infrastructure standards - increased use of automatic train protection and signals passed at danger monitoring systems plus enhanced driver training
- better practice in management of signals passed at danger
