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Copy of presentation delivered Tuesday 24 October 2017, Hong Kong
Copy of presentation delivered Tuesday 24 October 2017, Hong Kong
The paper is an account of the journey Metro undertook to improve the governance, compliance and risk position associated with the registration, maintenance and through life management of track vehicles registered for use on Metroês rail network. The paper also provides an insight into Metroês previous system, landscape on how other rail networks manage the same process, the need for harmonisation, a review of the IT landscape of comparable systems and the benefits Metro has realised with the introduction of the locally developed SAAS based solution called PlantGUARD
Copy of presentation delivered Tuesday 24 October 2017, Hong Kong
Accident investigators have a valuable role, alongside a committed railway industry, in continuing to drive down accident rates. This paper inevitably focuses on experience gained by the Rail Accident Investigation Branchês (RAIB) experience in the United Kingdom. The author accepts that there is no world viewê of current issues in railway safety, but believes that there are some common themes that would be recognised in many parts of the world.
Copy of presentation delivered Tuesday 24 October 2017, Hong Kong
The first part of this paper will present the regulatory and institutional framework for urban guided transportation and mainline railway. Then specific issues related to mixed systems and the main features of the authorization process in order to address these issues will be discussed in the second part. The third part will handle the way this regulation about mixed systems was designed.
Copy of presentation delivered Tuesday 24 October 2017, Hong Kong
This paper introduces a scheme for independent safety assessment accreditation within railways, in line with the CENELEC suite of Railway Application standards, as part of the international Engineering Safety Management (iESM) guidance for the worldwide railway industry. The iESM Guidance was developed by the TPD Group and reviewed by an international Working Group of senior practitioners, supported by MTR Corporation Hong Kong. It was presented at IRSC in Vancouver in 2013. It is freely available from www.intesm.org and includes guidance on performing Independent Assessment
Copy of presentation delivered Tuesday 24 October 2017, Hong Kong
In the nuclear industry, thirty years of extensive international cooperation have led to the establishment of the nuclear safety culture concept. By describing the main steps of the development of this concept, the purpose of this paper is to share several lessons learned. Three areas for improvement are proposed: firstly, further work is needed to reach a common understanding of organisational culture and safety culture; secondly, international cooperation is to be fostered to devise appropriate assessment methodologies in order to evaluate and enhance safety culture and finally, the role of national safety authorities should be clearly stated and further described