Avoiding Railway Catastrophes - A Managed Risk or Safety Complacency?

Name: Avoiding Railway Catastrophes - A Managed Risk or Safety Complacency?
Start: 2015-11-17T09:00:00
Location: Etc Venues - The Hatton

Etc Venues - The Hatton, London

17 November 2015
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Overview

This seminar will look at what is being done in Great Britain by major stakeholders in the management of risk and accident prevention, looking at the challenge from a national operating strategy, reminding us that the ever-present risk will never go away.

The GB rail network has become recognised as the safest railway in Europe, with the last significant accident being in February 2007.

Has the GB railway become complacent with how it deals with the management of risk and prevention of rail disaster?

The only way to improve is to study past experiences and use this as a means to plan for the future, so attend Avoiding Railway Catastrophes and join us in:

• Looking back – what have we done since previous disasters
• Looking forward – what are we doing to prevent disasters, e.g. risk strategies, standards, technology, behaviours, processes and rules.

Day 1

08:30 - Full Day Programme

08:30 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

SESSION 1: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

09:00 CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
Railway Division, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

09:10 UNDERSTAND THE CURRENT APPROACH TO REGULATION, INSPECTION, AND HEALTH AND SAFETY PERFORMANCE
Ian Prosser, Director - Railway Safety, Office of Road and Rail

• Lessons learned from the 175 year history of the Railway Inspectorate
• How a proactive approach to regulation and inspection has helped to deliver a significant
improvement in the health and safety performance of our railway
• A vision for improving the health and safety performance of railways across the world

09:35 RISK PROFILING AND PRACTITIONERS - RSSB ACTIVITIES
Liz Davies, Head of Safety Performance, RSSB

• Bringing in the outputs from the Risk Management Forum that was recently held

09:55 RSSB ‘STATE OF THE NATION’

Liz Davies, Head of Safety Performance, RSSB

• What are RSSB worried about?
• The next big decision the industry needs to prepare for – horizon scanning

10:15 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

10:30 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

SESSION 2: HOW DID WE GET TO WHERE WE ARE?

11:00 INVESTIGATING NEAR MISSES - MAXIMUM GAIN FOR LIMITED PAIN
John Cope, Principal Inspector, Rail Accident Investigation Branch

Near miss case studies - what prevents a near miss becoming an accident?
• Investigation of near misses and making recommendations
• Beyond near miss investigation - thoughts on how to sustain improvements in railway safety

11.25 RAIL WITHOUT FRONTIERS - A COMMON SAFETY CULTURE
Chris Carr, Head of Safety, European Rail Agency

• We know that physics is physics but are humans homologated?
• What happens when a train crosses into another safety culture?
• How common does safety culture have to be for a single European area to become a reality?
• The UK in a common European safety culture

11:50 NEW RAILWAY AND NEW CHALLENGES - SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF CROSSRAIL
Phil Hinde, Principal Engineer, Rolling Stock and Depots, Crossrail

• Mixing manual driving with automatic train operation
• Transitioning between different signalling systems
• Responsibilities at shared sub-surface stations
• Platform train interface

12:15 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

12:30 NETWORKING LUNCH

SESSION 3: HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE STAY WHERE WE ARE?

13:30 HINKLEY POINT C: INNOVATION IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Melanie Sachar, Knowledge Management Lead, Nuclear New Build, EDF Energy

• The EPR reactor has a 60 year operational lifetime plus decommissioning and we need to ensure we
capture and preserve knowledge in an accessible format for this entire duration
• Each lifecycle phase of a nuclear new build project brings different challenges and different
learning opportunities
• The project has a unique opportunity and new and innovative IT tools to capture knowledge
effectively

13:55 PLANES, TRAINS AND HUMAN FACTORS
John Barnett, Independent Human Factors Consultant

• Making the transition from engineer to psychologist
• What we can learn from other industries and disciplines
• Study our mistakes and those of others

14:20 HOW DO YOU MAINTAIN THE REQUIRED STANDARDS OF SAFETY WHILE UNDER PRESSURE
Speaker To Be Confirmed

14:45 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

15:00 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

SESSION 4: HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE STAY WHERE WE ARE? CONTINUED…

15:30 LEARNING FROM EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE?
Rob Rumping, Project Officer, European Rail Agency

• The purpose of (independent) accident investigation
• How to learn lessons quickly from incidents and accidents on different levels
• Involvement of the railway organisations

15:55 CYBER SECURITY IN OUR ASSETS
Peter Gibbons, Head of Information Security, Network Rail

• Insight into the terrorist influence on rail networks
• Understanding training of engineers to protect assets

16:20 ‘BIG’ RAILWAY SAFETY ISSUES ALONGSIDE THE SAME IN OIL & GAS AND AVIATION
Speaker To Be Announced

• Systemic risks in organisations and industries
• Learning from other industries

16:45 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

17:00 CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
Railway Division, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

17:15 END OF SEMINAR PROGRAMME

Find out more about our speakers at www.imeche.org/railcatastrophes
• This programme is subject to change.
• The Institution is not responsible for the views or opinions expressed by individual speakers.

Ian Prosser: Director - Railway Safety, Office of Road and Rail

Ian Prosser is the Chief Inspector of Railways and Director of Railway Safety. He is responsible for the work of the Railway Safety Directorate, which strives to ensure duty-holders in the railway industry manage health and safety risks effectively and thus comply with their statutory duties. The Secretary of State appointed him to the Board with effect from 26 September 2008.

John Cope: Principal Inspector, RAIB

John Cope’s railway career started in 1973 as a train planner in the SW Division of the Southern Region. After taking time out to obtain a degree, he returned to British Rail as a management trainee, subsequently becoming Traffic Manager at Didcot before leaving British Rail for a second time to work in railway safety consultancy. During this period he worked on safety issues for the Channel Tunnel, HS1 and Thameslink projects, also spending two years in Hong Kong on the airport railway. He ran his own railway safety consultancy for three years before joining the RAIB in January 2005.

Chris Carr: Head of Safety, European Rail Agency

Chris Carr joined the European Railway Agency as Head of Safety in December 2012. He started his career as an Engineering Management trainee with British Rail in 1986. After working in train maintenance, Chris joined the UK National Safety Authority in 1997 and in 2005 he was appointed to lead their International Rail Policy Team. Chris joined the UK transport ministry in 2006 to lead the implementation of interoperability before becoming a Deputy Director at the UK Transport Ministry in 2007, representing the UK at the RISC committee and on the ERA Board.

Phil Hinde: Principal Engineer, Rolling Stock and Depots, Crossrail

Phil Hinde joined the industry from school in 1972 before completing an engineering degree at Cambridge University as part of the British Railways engineering management training programme. He has worked in electrification and plant engineering, and also in train operations but has in recent years been mainly involved with rolling stock, as a maintenance depot manager, project manager for a new fleet, and latterly as lead rolling stock engineer for Crossrail. He has been a member of various GB and European technical committees and is currently convener of a working group preparing a Euronorm for Platform Edge Doors.

Melanie Sachar: Knowledge Management Lead, Nuclear New Build, EDF Energy

Melanie Sachar has a degree in Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering. She has spent most of her career working in the Canadian nuclear industry with CANDU reactors and in decommissioning. She made the transition to the UK to work for EDF Energy on the Nuclear New Build at Hinkley Point C in 2011. Most recently, she started a three year secondment to work with the EDF Energy parent company in Paris, France and to gain a better understanding of the cross-cultural aspects of the project. One of the areas she has focused on, and of key importance to Nuclear New Build projects, is Knowledge Management.

John Barnett: Human Factors Consultant, Independent

John Barnett joined Northern Ireland Railways in 1982 as a signalling and electrical engineer, becoming infrastructure executive in 1992 with responsibility for track and signalling maintenance and new works. John left NIR in 2002 to commence a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and worked with a rail company in England to study and improve their SPAD record. He is currently a Human Factors Consultant with the Flight Operations Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS,) studying the synergy between the rail and aviation industries.

Rob Rumping: Project Officer, European Rail Agency

Rob Rumping joined the European Rail Agency as Project Officer in July 2009. Rob’s main topics are accident investigation and auditing governmental organisations. He started his career in the Netherlands as a management trainee and was regional manager in the Dutch Railways. In 1994, Rob joined Railned (Ministry) and was a regional head responsible for auditing, inspections and accident investigation around the area of Amsterdam. In 1999 he joined the multi-modal Dutch Safety Board and was responsible for major accident investigations (railways, buildings etc.) and representing the Netherlands in ERA meetings.

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