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Road driving risk
Road driving risk ..................01
The rail industry recognises the significance of road driving risk
to its workforce and is seeking to improve its controls.
New Train Driver Selection
Standard approved for
publication.............................02
Estimates suggest anything between
25 and 40% of road traffic incidents
involve work-related journeys, which
would be equivalent to between 475
and 760 work-related driving fatalities
a year. Compare that with 173 workrelated fatalities in total recorded
by HSE in 2010-11 across all work
sectors, and which do not include road
traffic events.
A dedicated cross-industry steering
group has already started to research
the broader issue through RSSB, and
Operations Focus Group (OFG) has
sponsored new research looking in
particular at managing occupational
road risk associated with road vehicle
driver fatigue (project reference T997),
which has just been published.
A RSSB survey to better understand
road driving risk across a
representative sample of employers
identified 500 road traffic collisions,
100 injuries and 5 fatalities in one
year. These figures, compared to data
in the industry’s Safety Management
RSSB Strategic Review.........02
Information System (SMIS) for the
same period, showed under-reporting.
There are likely to be at least 75,000
road vehicles linked to the rail industry.
This includes use by mobile operations
managers, maintenance teams and
contractors. Staff may need to travel
from job-to-job early in the day or late
at night, depending on the task in
hand, and to access very particular
areas of the infrastructure, depending
on engineering schedules and
incidents that occur.
The new resources build on the
recently-issued briefing DVD, RED
35, which featured a dramatisation of
a road traffic accident caused by the
fatigued rail worker involved.
For details of changes to Railway Group Standards view the Latest Updates page on
the RGS Online website www.rgsonline.co.uk
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Special topic report: Risk
from animals on the line........03
Removing duplication from
assurance of vehicle
overhaul suppliers.................04
A Meeting of the Minds..........05
EPSRC/ RSSB/ DfT
Strategic Partnership Capacity at nodes.................06
Events...................................07
The research has led to the
development of good practice
guides for managers and rail staff
to help improve the management of
occupational road risk associated with
road vehicle driver fatigue.
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The DVD programme prompts specific questions for
managers to ensure that the potential for road vehicle driver
fatigue is incorporated into job design, rostering, work risk
assessments, and travel planning for work.
New guidance to help staff and their managers identify the
risk from fatigue when driving and how to recognise the
warning signs and cope with this issue is now available, as
are reminder sheets for staff to keep in their vehicle and an
awareness-raising poster to put up in canteens, foyers and
mess rooms. These all include references to the issues as
well as graphics and imagery used in RED 35 to help people
make the connection.
Beyond T997, RSSB has been tasked with developing a
dedicated area on the RSSB website for the rail industry
to access specific, relevant information on managing
road driving risk and help raise awareness. This will aid
embedding of work-related driving risk controls into safety
management systems, and boost legal safeguards as well as
rail staff safety.
For more information, contact RSSB – enquirydesk@rssb.co.uk
RSSB Strategic Review
The RSSB strategic review is progressing on two fronts. A
draft strategic business plan for the period 2014 to 2019 is
being prepared by the Board for consultation with members
and stakeholders, commencing later in June, and the internal
process to identify appropriate changes is now well under
way. The business plan will show each of RSSB’s products
and services against the appropriate Stakeholder group, and
against each of RSSB’s functions. The different ‘functions’
were established in the earlier consultation which was
completed in January.
At the same time many of the major stakeholder groups that
RSSB facilitates are making adjustments to equip themselves
for the future and this is likely to impact on the support that
RSSB will offer to them. In the light of the challenges and
opportunities facing the industry going into the next round of
Franchising and Network Rails’ control period 5, RSSBs plans
will show what support RSSB provides at the commencement
of the plan period, together with the means by which these
can be changed according to developing industry priorities. It
will also identify the baseline for what is intended to be a five
year funding settlement.
New Train Driver Selection Standard approved for
publication
A new issue of RIS-3751-TOM Train Driver Selection has now
been approved by the Traffic Operations and Management
Standards Committee and will be published in June 2013.
This rail industry standard (RIS) is relevant to all organisations
who employ train drivers and who perform selection
assessments for the recruitment of train drivers. It specifies
a selection process that includes core safety critical selection
criteria and recommended methods for assessing these
criteria. The selection process has been updated to provide a
more comprehensive process that is clearly compliant with the
requirements of the Train Driving Licences and Certificates
Regulations 2010. The new process has been through
a rigorous cross-industry evaluation and there is strong
statistical evidence in the report to show it is an improvement
on the current process.
The new assessment process should be used by all
employers of train drivers to provide confidence that they
are all assessed in a consistent way and reach the same
minimum standard. This RIS has an ‘implementation date’ of
30 September 2013 which is intended to provide employers
and assessment centres with enough time after publication
in June to get ready to use the new process and to avoid
a situation where different companies are using different
processes.
RSSB is currently working with Rail Assessment Centres to
assist with the transition to the new process.
Further detailed information can be found at: http://www.rssb.co.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/rgs/Psychometricassessment-FAQ.pdf or contact assessment@rssb.co.uk with any questions.
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RSSB has to date published eight leaflets in the series of
leaflets entitled ‘Tell me about …’ standards. These leaflets
have been produced to help improve the rail industry’s
understanding about standards and the rail industry.
Three further leaflets in this series will be published shortly on
the following topics:
The Rule Book
This leaflet explains what the Rule Book is, why it is
mandatory and who must comply with it, how to apply for a
deviation from a rule or rules, how to get a printed copy of the
Rule Book modules, handbooks, amendments and updates
and how the Rule Book is managed.
This leaflet may be of particular interest to rail industry staff
who carry out operational duties and their managers, or
people whose work involves the management of standards.
It may also be helpful to organisations who are involved in
providing support (such as training) to the rail industry.
Rail Industry Standards
This leaflet explains why the rail industry has Rail Industry
Standards (RISs), their purpose and who can use them, how
National Technical Rules for the GB Mainline Railway
This leaflet explains what National Technical Rules (NTRs)
are, why they are required, how they relate to Technical
Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs), the type of
requirements they contain, how NTRs are notified to the
Department for Transport and where they can be found.
This leaflet may be of particular interest to people who
manage projects in the rail industry, rail industry staff who
use standards and suppliers, manufacturers or maintainers of
railway components, subsystems and vehicles.
Copies of the three new leaflets will be sent to key rail
industry stakeholders for distribution in their companies and
will be published on the RSSB website.
Requests for copies of the three new leaflets can be sent to
standardsleaflets@rssb.co.uk.
Feedback on the content of the leaflets produced so far would
be welcome at the address above. Further leaflets will be
published in the coming year. If there is a topic you would like
included in this series please let us know.
The ‘Tell me about …’ leaflets on standards can be viewed on the RSSB website
http://www.rssb.co.uk/standardsrailindustry/Pages/default.aspx
Special topic report: Risk from animals on the line
There has been a rise in the number of incidents where trains
strike animals over the last ten years. What does this mean
for industry?
The cross-industry Operations Focus Group (OFG) asked
RSSB to prepare a special topic report on the risk from
animals on the line, and this has just been published on the
RSSB website.
Recent and historic accidents are a reminder of both crucial
improvements to train crashworthiness and the importance of
understanding the risk posed by animal strikes.
The most recent fatal incident in Britain occurred at Polmont in
July 1984, where a train struck a cow, and ultimately derailed,
resulting in 13 deaths and 14 major injuries, including the train
driver.
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The learning from that accident led to a review of railway
fencing, new driver-to-shore communication systems and
a change in the Rule Book to mandate reporting of animals
within the railway boundary or which could cause problems.
It also led to research into obstacle deflectors, particularly
for ‘push-pull’ trains which were operated at the time, where
locomotive-hauled trains could be driven in the other direction
from a cab in the last vehicle, a converted Mark II passenger
carriage, (known as a Driving Brake Second Open).
While the overall risk from animal strikes remains low,
incidents still occur. For example, in January 2012, a
Hamburg-bound push-pull service running in ‘push mode’
struck a herd of cattle and derailed. One passenger was
killed; the driver and one further passenger were injured. In
Britain, last July, a passenger train struck cattle on the line
and derailed at Letterston Junction, without injury.
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A key message coming from the special topic report suggests
that the safety risk from animal strike incidents on the British
mainline railway is generally low, but that there has been
a rise in the number of animal strikes per se, for example,
there was a 190% rise in incidents on the Scotland route in
2009/10, compared to 2008/09.
While these incidents still have the potential to cause harm,
the overall safety risk appears to remain low and the more
notable impacts are commercial, in terms of delays, rolling
stock cleaning and line clearance. According to the report,
on average, 130,000 delay minutes are caused each year
by trains striking animals or animals on the line, and around
£4.9million was lost due to animals on the line in 2012/13.
The report acknowledges that there is the potential for ill
health exposure to employees from dealing with the clean-up
of cattle strikes. The RSSB Workforce Health and Wellbeing
project is underway to help members to better understand and
tackle such health issues.
The report, Analysis of the risk from animals on the line can
be downloaded from the RSSB website.
For more information, contact enquirydesk@rssb.co.uk
Removing duplication from assurance of vehicle
overhaul suppliers
RSSB has facilitated cooperation between two major supplier
assurance schemes, Railway Industry Supplier Approval
Scheme (RISAS) and Link-up, to remove the duplication
borne by industry suppliers and customers in relation to
the assurance of wheelset, wheelset component and bogie
overhaul suppliers.
For many years, suppliers and customers within the rail
industry have found fault with the complexity and cost of the
current set of supplier assurance arrangements. RSSB is
coordinating a project for the rail industry to modernise these
arrangements for the long term, but there are also some short
term improvements which industry wants to realise more
quickly.
This includes coordinating the range of schemes industry
funds and supports. Backed by Rail Delivery Group, the
Board of RSSB has recently set up the Railway Industry
Supplier Qualification Scheme (RISQS), with its own Board,
to govern Link-Up, using similar principles to the scheme
governance of RISAS.
One of the more common complaints from industry concerns
continuing duplication of supplier audits, particularly in respect
of wheelsets, wheelset components and bogie overhaul.
Rail industry policy since 2009 is that all firms in this field
are certificated through RISAS which provides a positive
demonstration that suppliers are capable of complying with
specific requirements, and that compliance is assured.
However, when the policy was introduced, no arrangements
were made to remove the long-standing Link-up supplier
audits and the associated costs.
Now the RISAS Board and the RISQS Board, working
together, have decided to alter the way both RISAS and Linkup work, to ensure that wheelset, wheelset component and
bogie overhaul suppliers are not audited twice.
A joint statement from the Boards has been made available
to all RISAS users, suppliers certified under RISAS and those
going through the process, approval bodies (RISABs), the
Link-up community, senior engineering contacts in RSSB
members including Network Rail, TOCs, FOCs, ROSCOs
and infrastructure companies, as well as ORR. There is
also a supporting Q&A document. These documents will be
available on the web at www.risqs.org and www.risas.co.uk.
The key to all this for RSSB – as the independent body
supporting industry in its objectives to make things clearer
and more effective – has been to listen to Network Rail,
train and freight operators, ROSCOs, suppliers as well as
other supporting bodies like ATOC, the Freight Technical
Committee, RIA, the Rail Industry Contractors Association,
and ORR to establish the best ways forward.
For more information, contact Andy Tandy, systems and stakeholder manager at RSSB
andy.tandy@rssb.co.uk.
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Research
A Meeting of the Minds…
How can academics help deliver on the Rail Technical
Strategy (RTS)? What is the state of the art and what
potential is there to research future solutions? How can skills,
technologies, techniques and expertise being applied in other
industries be transferred to the railway?
The Rail Research UK Association (RRUKA) academic
community met on 27 February at the Business Innovation
and Skills Conference Centre to try and map it all out (quite
literally – giant mind maps were the main tool of the day!) at
“The Academic Response to the RTS” workshop.
ASSOCIATION
The six breakout leaders will now take the event outputs and
contributions and translate them into a living document which
will set out the academic research strategy. This will detail
the strengths, existing knowledge, research gaps, what’s
needed from industry, and other ways in which academia
can help to support the delivery of the RTS 2012. It is hoped
that a first draft will be presented to the Technical Strategy
Leadership Group (TSLG) in June 2013.
RRUKA will soon be launching a dedicated area for RTS
activities on the RRUKA website…so watch this space!
With a clear focus on blue-skies thinking, existing research
knowledge and current gaps, the workshop saw almost 100
academics from 27 different UK universities (and a handful of
industry representatives) really get to grips with the content of
the Rail Technical Strategy 2012. This included a number of
researchers entirely new to rail, many of whom indicated that
they would be looking to apply their research to the industry in
future.
As well as mapping out the vast range of capabilities existent
amongst the academic community, and increasing awareness
of these amongst the researchers themselves, the breakout
sessions (centered on the six RTS themes), prompted a
number of fundamental questions and discussion points.
One of these was that the provision of data from industry
would be key to helping academia deliver solutions. It was
also established that there are a number of lessons to be
learned from what’s taking place in other sectors – but what
needs to change for these to be applied to rail and how easy
is it?
The discussions also highlighted the key role universities
have to play in the training and provision of skilled individuals
– linking to thoughts that Gil Howarth (NSARE) shared at the
RRUKA RTS 2012 briefing (held on 14 January) regarding the
skills challenge.
(Above: Some of the attendees actively participating in the
breakouts and the plenary session)
Initial feedback suggests that more inter-disciplinary
workshops would be very welcome to tackle the issue of
academics working in isolation, so this is also something
RRUKA will look to support in future.
Ultimately, the workshop proved that achievement of the
successful delivery of the RTS will not just be about what
academics can do for industry but very much depend upon
the careful interplay between the two parties. Industry has a
role in helping to make things happen – dictating a need for
the formation of strong partnerships – something RRUKA was
set up to help achieve.
What’s next?
This was very much the starting point for the academic
response to the RTS. We expect this to lead to further
workshops exploring some of the key areas and also some
funded research.
(Above: the breakout leaders – from left to right: John
Preston, University of Southampton; Clive Roberts, University
of Birmingham; Stuart Hillmansen, University of Birmingham;
Simon Iwnicki, University of Huddersfield; Roger Goodall,
Loughborough University)
For further information contact secretariat@rruka.org.uk and visit www.rruka.org.uk
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EPSRC/ RSSB/ DfT Strategic Partnership Capacity at nodes
In May 2009, RSSB set up a strategic partnership with the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
and the Department for Transport (DfT). This partnership is
designed to deliver high quality academic research that focuses
on some of the strategic issues the industry has to address in
next few decades, if it is to achieve the vision of the railway
of the future. By leveraging the funding from the DfT research
grant to RSSB, industry gains more value from the research
funded.
The partnership launched its first call for research proposals in
April 2010 to fund research aimed at overcoming the capacity
constraints at junctions and stations (nodes in the rail network),
a key challenge for the rail industry. Nodes in rail networks are
vital elements of a railway infrastructure, but they are frequently
also a major constraint on capacity.
Five co-funded projects, with a value totalling £1.5m, are
underway as a result of this (with links to SPARK):
- OCCASION – Overcoming capacity constraints, a simulation
integrated with optimisation for nodes (led by University of
Southampton)
- Challenging established rules for train control through a fault
tolerance approach (led by University of Leeds and Salford)
- SafeCap – Overcoming the railway capacity challenges
without undermining rail network safety (led by Newcastle
University)
- REPOINT – Redundantly engineered points for enhanced
reliability and capacity of railway track switching (led by
Loughborough University)
- Dynamic response signal control for railway junctions (led by
University College London)
The projects started in early 2011 and are due to be completed
in May-June 2013.
Several dissemination activities have been organised so far.
Two seminars have been held, sharing the progress to date,
allowing cross-fertilisation between the projects and getting
industry input, in November 2011 and then in June 2012.
At the latter seminar, particular focus was given towards
exploring options for taking emerging ideas forward towards
implementation.
RSSB is keen to gain maximum value and impact from these
projects for industry and identify any further opportunities
to build on their findings. Therefore in February 2013 the
five project teams took part in a review process where they
presented their ‘path to implementation’ and discussed what it
would take for their projects to be of impact to industry.
The cross industry panel who reviews the five projects included
RSSB, EPSRC, DfT, ATOC, Network Rail, EIT, TSB and
East Coast. The panel assessed the technology readiness,
evaluated what is emerging from the research that would bring
the most benefit to the GB rail industry and assessed which
project(s) would be worth taking forward.
They agreed that the best value would come from combining
the approaches of several of the existing projects within one or
two new proposals to progress research into improving capacity
at nodes, scheduling and future traffic optimisation with FuTRO
(Future Traffic Regulation Optimisation) providing a key
contextual element for the development of this work.
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Events
Coming up: Operations Focus Conference, 3 October 2013
Senior operations managers, directors, and HR/recruitment directors are being invited to join this year’s Operations Focus
Conference on 3 October 2013, taking place at the Network Rail Leadership Development Centre, Westwood, near Coventry.
The annual event is an excellent opportunity for the industry to come together in one room to focus on operational issues.
The theme of this year’s event is ‘big builds’, looking at the operational and manpower challenges associated with large
scale projects like Reading and big electrification schemes. The conference will feature a series of topical presentations and
exhibitors, and will also provide the opportunity for plenty of open-forum discussion and networking.
The conference will also be an opportunity to share the outputs of industry’s work to modernise safety cooperation with the
future working of new groups working on operational safety matters, including the System Safety Risk Group (SSRG). An article
on the new group arrangements will also appear in a future Information Bulletin.
For more information about this invite-only conference, contact Catherine Gallagher, Programme Manager,
Operational Safety, catherine.gallagher@rssb.co.uk, telephone 020 3142 5300.
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