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Advancing to a High Reliability Organization – the Experience of a Railway Operator, N Ng & B Cheung (Paper)

hong-kong

This paper describes how MTR has started embedding the High Reliability Organisation (HRO) characteristics in its organization and Safety Management System (SMS) to sustain its high level of safety and service performance. MTR has also leveraged on HRO to strengthen the safety culture of its workforce in Hong Kong railway operations with over 11,000 staff members. While the concept of HRO is generally applied in high-risk industries such as nuclear weapons, coal mining, petroleum and healthcare, the railway operations of a heavily utilized metro share similar traits and challenges.

Year of Publication: 2017

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Delivering the Australian Rail Risk Model (ARRM), J Baker (Paper)

hong-kong

For many years RISSB has promoted the idea that Australia, like some other railways, should have a national rail safety risk model as a consistent, objective, quantitative and user-friendly tool to help rail companies understand their safety risk better. But without the authority to compel industry to undertake such a project, RISSB relied on a strategy of building support, i.e. selling the project on its merits. This has had much success; by late 2016 the ARRM project began in earnest. Not only is this a win for Australian rail •safety and risk managementê, itês a win for •innovation and collaborationê.

Year of Publication: 2017

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The Potential for Big Data and Occurrence Reporting for better Safety Management (Paper)

paris

Changes in the capability and cost of technology are driving an explosion in the use of intelligent, connected systems. Today, more things are connected to the internet than people. Tech giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon have led the advance and seem to know what and where we will buy, eat and visit before we do. Railways worldwide are investing in this technology to improve customer satisfaction, performance, ticket sales and maintenance planning. What is the potential for this technology in predicting and preventing accidents? Can algorithms tame the chaos and manage the risk of accidents?

Year of Publication: 2016

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Developing Competence in Safety Management for Business Success (abstract)

bastad

The railway business environment in Europe is changing rapidly. To respond to this changing world, railway companies need to strengthen their risk-based approaches to safety management. æHowever, this alone is not sufficient – companies need to have sufficient competence of senior staff to be able to effectively lead and manage safety. æThis introduces greater safety leadership and management competency requirements for many senior staff. æHow do you make the business case for the competency development, and then actually delivery it? This paper will examine how to win the business case for developing competence and then deliver the competency development.

Year of Publication: 2009

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