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Delving into derailments and recognising rail safety For the first two quarters of 2022, RISSB has focused on its traditional business of ACOP (Australian College of Professionals) publication development and supporting its members by offering face-to-face activities. The RISSB has produced two new publications. • AS 7642 Turnouts and other special trackwork This Standard outlines requirements for design, supply, construction, maintenance, decommissioning and disposal of turnouts and other special trackwork. It promotes a consistent treatment, across a range of operational track gauges used in Australia and takes a whole-of-life approach to management. • Code of practice – Light rail network safeworking The purpose of this Code of Practice is to provide rail transport operators in Australian and New Zealand operating light rail networks, a consistent approach to safeworking and the safe operation of a light rail network, including: • Fundamental principles of safeworking • Safe operation of rolling stock, including maintenance vehicles • Management of failure situations • Management of access to the light rail corridor • Managing works on, or in proximity to, a light rail network, including operation of on track vehicles, plant and equipment associated with those works • Management of access to hazardous equipment. Members can download both publications straight to their desktop from the ‘Products’ page on RISSB’s website www.rissb.com.au/products/. FACE-TO-FACE TRAINING COURSES Face-to-face training has returned and numbers for both the Derailment Investigation and Analysis Workshop (May) and Investigate Rail Safety Incidents (June) soared and reached capacity early.
We have now released two new dates for two of our most popular face-to-face courses. The Investigate Rail Safety Incidents course will be held on 12 September (at a location to be determined). The aim of the four-day course is to teach attendees how to conduct and document any investigation into a railway safety incident. It builds on industry best practice and promotes a just culture approach for investigations. Attendees learn about: • Regulatory requirements for rail safety investigations • Causes of rail safety incidents • Rail safety investigation types • Planning the investigation • Categories of evidence • Collecting, recording and preserving evidence • Gathering information through interviews • Analysis of evidence. The next Derailment and Analysis Workshop has been scheduled for 18 July and a location is still being determined for this one as well. This three-day course is an engaging foundation course that provides participants with an understanding of the principles, methods and requirements for investigating derailments. Over three days, among other things, they will learn more about: • The investigation processes • Theories of derailment • Regulatory requirements • Derailment report submissions • The true cost of derailments to an organisation • Infrastructure derailment triggers • Operations derailment triggers • How human factors contributes to derailments
The train derailment course provides participants with an understanding of the principles for investigating such incidents.
• Track construction maintenance and measurements • Wheel rail interface issues • Turnout and yard derailments. For more information about our two courses or to enquire about a spot for you or someone in your team, please email: training@rissb.com.au. RISSB RAIL SAFETY CONFERENCE The 22nd RISSB Rail Safety Conference was held in Melbourne on May 3-4. The conference attracted delegates from right across Australia as well as from overseas who attended either in-person at Collins Square, or online in a virtual conference environment. The multi-disciplinary event brought together rail transport operators, engineers, project managers, investigators, safety professionals and senior industry executives, all with a deep interest in risk management, safety and keeping railways right across the world, safe with new challenges testing a battle weary industry. The conference theme, Climate Safety and Safety Climate, was deliberately set to spark debate about the journey to net zero and the need for the rail industry to respond to unprecedented and rapid changes, including the challenges that come with a post pandemic world. A big thank you to everyone who made this the tremendous success that it was, including all conference speakers, chairs and behind the scenes staff.
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