RISE Awards 2020 4 November 2020
#RISEAwards20 Safety and Wellbeing Atkins With a number of tasks still requiring rail workers to be on-track, there were 486 workforce near misses reported in the first year of CP6 alone. Overhead Line Equipment (OLE) survey data is a key requirement for major projects, renewal and maintenance activities across the rail network. Traditionally, collating survey data would be carried out manually by a team walking the track, creating considerable workforce safety risks including accidents, fatigue, impacting mental health as well as being time-consuming and inefficient. Using the New Measurement Train infrastructure, Atkins are collaborating with Network Rail’s North West and Central South route team and Network Rail’s Accelerated Innovation team as part of the Central Rail Systems Alliance (CRSA) and newly established SME Train Rail Infrastructure Solutions to develop the OLE Static Analysis Tool (OLE-StAT) to carry out surveys remotely, creating significant workforce safety benefits: • Mitigates the need for workers to walk the track • Reduces the risk of workforce fatigue and relatable incidents including road traffic accidents • Reduces the risk of slips, trips and falls accidents • Facilitates planned maintenance reducing the pressure of emergency trackside working Initial predictions suggest OLE-StAT has the potential to reduce the on-track hours by circa 2000 annually for the Central Rail Systems Alliance and is being developed to support proactive maintenance planning and fault-finding to realise further safety and efficiency benefits across the rail network. OLE-StAT will support NR achieve the target to reduce workforce near misses by 50% by removing the need to walk the track to carry out OLE surveys. 22 Headfort Place, London SW1X 7RY +44 (0)20 7201 0777
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