How safe is working on the railway? conference

The ICC
Broad Street
Birmingham, B1 2EA
England

Thursday 20th May 2010. The ICC, Birmingham.

This conference provides a forum for an in-depth exchange of experience and lessons for improving rail safety.

See how experts are improving workforce health and safety and occupational health and experience how companies are striving towards world class safety performance, where safety culture and leadership are achieving best practice.

Learn from the experience of experts.

Who should attend?

Delegates to this conference are senior people with responsibility in rail safety management. They work within operating companies, contractors, labour supply, training, safety regulators, investigation agencies and rail unions.

The conference content draws a like-minded crowd. Delegates can further their connections within the industry and identify future partnerships with the optional Speed Networking session.

Hosted by Colin Wheeler

Colin has been a pioneering Railway Civil Engineer since 1967. He has been the Independent Chairman of the Association of On Track Labour Suppliers from its foundation in 1999, and continues as Independent Chair of the Railway Industry Contractors Association. In 2006, Colin was presented with the The Wing Award for Safety by the IRSE “in recognition of an outstanding contribution to track safety”.

Colin has written the Track Safety focus column in RailStaff for more than 10 years and was part of the team that launched the rail engineer magazine and it’s first editor.

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Programme

09:05	Chairman’s opening remarks
09:15	How Safe is our Railway? John Abbott, RSSB Long term safety trends across GB mainline system Current system safety risk profile A focus on workforce safety in today’s railway What can RSSB do to help?
09:45	Infrastructure staff fatalities: 1994 – 2010: Andy Savage Identifying the most common causes of fatal accidents Suggesting ways of building on the improvements that have taken place in that time
10:15	Questions and Answers
10:30	Morning refreshments

11:00	Excellence in Health & Safety: Ian Prosser, Office of Rail Regulation Health and Safety is all about people The key to achieving excellence in Health and Safety is centred on having an excellent Health and Safety culture and risk control The most important factors required to achieve excellence is leadership that is passionate and drives continuous improvements in all aspects of an organisation’s activity It is very important to measure the organisation’s culture: Understand how people feel and understand the maturity of the safety management system
11:30	How are we doing? Steve Fink, Network Rail Safety of the workforce on the rail network has improved significantly, but there is always room to do more Netowork Rail continues to work closely with its major contractors, suppliers and the Office of Rail Regulation to target key areas requiring on-going improvement Constant review of processes and systems The challenge for ongoing improvements in safety is as much about the management of people as it is process… if not more so

12:00	Questions and Answers
12:15	Speed Networking
12:30	Lunch

13:15	On the path to world class safety performance: Jill Collis, London Underground With many challenges over the last decade and still more challenges facing us over the next decade, this session looks at the improving safety performance of London Underground. It looks at how one of the oldest metros in the world has achieved this improved performance and considers what comes next on the path to world class safety performance.
13:45	Safety in a Contracting World: Steve Diksa, Bridgeway Consulting The challenges of balancing the commercial / assurance focus, whilst ensuring the safety of the workforce Developing and managing safety policy in a tactical sense A contractor’s view on audits, safety behaviours, people development and industry wide safety communication
14:15	How RAIB works and emerging safety issues: Carolyn Griffiths, RAIB The RAIB has been operational since October 2005 Since that time the Branch has completed 141 investigations Explanation on how the Branch works and emerging safety issues as seen from its investigations

14:45	Questions and Answers
15:00	Break

15:20	Common European System Safety Methods, Paul Cheeseman, Technical Programme Delivery An introduction to Common Safety Indicators which are progressively being mandated through the European Railway Safety Directive across Europe Different national standards and regulations, their barriers to interoperability and the extra cost for product development and approval How Common Safety Methods are being promoted to enable fair measurements of performance and mutual recognition of the results from risk assessment activities.
15:40	How can the insurance world help with rail safety?, Roger Lewis, ITIC Thomas Miller Is it interested in doing so? What has the insurance world done for safety in marine and aviation What are required insurance terms and how is a premium calculated Is the insurance world ‘taking out the profit’ from rail projects? How best should the railway engage the insurance industry?
16:00	Discussion Forum
16:15	Chairman’s closing remarks

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