RS# 6 Emergencies and Incidents
Draft date: Oct 5, 2011 Rev 1
Corporate Health and Safety
ArcelorMittal
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General subjects regarding Emergencies & Incidents
Definitions and terms
FPA Questions
Procedures
Incidents
Alcohol and Drugs
General subjects regarding Emergencies & Incidents
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Rail emergencies can include fires, explosions, derailments, leaks,
molten metal breakouts:
– Calcium carbide
– Chlorine gas
– Molten steel
– Molten iron
– Collisions with vehicles carrying fuels, gases, liquids
Serious rail incidents are very infrequent but when they occur they are
often catastrophic
Emergencies can happen on and off the site impacting the workforce
and community
Impacts from production processes may also occur
Recommendations and good examples !
Sites should have rail incidents as an integral
element in their Emergency Response Plans
Definitions and terms (1/3 )
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Emergency
Any situation where assistance is needed to respond to people damage to equipment
or a loss in production or process.
Derailment
A derailment is an accident on a railway in which a rail vehicle, or part or all of a train,
leaves the tracks on which it is travelling, with consequent damage and in many cases
injury and/or death. Can be caused by poor housekeeping, weather conditions, poor
track maintenance, worn train car wheels, damaged switch, going too fast or careless
train operation.
Poor Housekeeping
Frozen Switch
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Emergency ST 013, 016 and 017
A series of AM global standards regarding emergency response. They are found on
the Am intranet site in the H&S home page.
• Train Control Center
The location where train movements and direction is controlled, in larger sites this
station is mannned 24/ 7. This is normally the station called in the event of an
emergency or incident requiriong asistance.
• Anomaly
Any situation out of the ordinary.
This can be a maintenance repair need,
a damaged wagon, a bad section of
rail, a near miss of a vehicle crossing
in front of a train movement etc.
Recommendations and good examples !
• Do a comprehensive risk assessment for potential rail incidents
• Implement control measures from the assessment
FPA questions Emergency and rail; L1Q14
Have emergency response plans been written for rail related incidents?
• See also standard Emergency ST 013, 016 and 017.
• There must be a procedure which describes the steps to take in case of railway
emergency.
• The safety of employees, contractors, the public and community shall take priority
during any emergency or railway safety occurrence.
• Employees and contractors shall not place themselves at risk of injury when carrying
out an investigation, coordination and occurrence site recovery work and should take
necessary precautions against:
– Unstable rolling stock, infrastructure and other structures Recommendations and
– Dangerous goods and fire
good examples !
– Moving machinery including other trains
• Use emergency procedure
to train personnel
– Overhead traction and other electrical wires
– Compressed air
– Wreckage including sharp or jagged edges
– Blood-borne pathogen exposure
– The existence of human and other remains
FPA questions Emergency and rail; L1Q14
Have emergency response plans been written for rail related incidents?
• Train crew, if a train is
involved;
–Advise the Track & Train
Control Center
–Advise the Train
Management/ Supervisor
–Advise emergency
services if required
–Ensure the safety and
security of the train in
accordance with
safeworking procedures
Recommendations and
good examples !
• Have drills
• Be prepared
FPA questions Emergency and rail; L1Q14
Have emergency response plans been written for rail related incidents?
– Provide a warning and ensure the safety of other trains in accordance with
safeworking procedures if required
– Determine access requirements to the occurrence site
– Maintain communications with the Train Control Centre
– Maintain communications with the Train Management
– Make sure that emergency services, the Train Control Centre and the Train
Management Officer have been advised of dangerous goods
– If necessary to evacuate, and safe to do so, the train crew shall take the
Dangerous Goods documentation with them in order it is available to the
emergencies services
– Warn others of any dangers present
– Assist those in danger to move to a place of safety
FPA questions Emergency and rail; L1Q15
Have formal communications been done to all employees on the emergency procedures and
have those been addressed to include employees, contractors and visitors?
• Employees and Contractors;
– Advise the Train Control Center
– Advise the Train Management
– Warn others of any dangers present
– Advise emergency services if required
– Assist those in danger to move to a
place of safety
– Assist other employees and
contractors when required.
Recommendations and good examples !
• Have good training and awareness
• Include education of workforce and community
• Involvement with local emergency services
FPA questions Anomalies and incidents reporting;
L2Q9 and L3Q4 Is there a formalized system for anomalies reporting?
• Every anomaly must be reported in an system. If there is a safety device not working
properly, quick and direct action should be taken to avoid any possible accident.
• Employees must not operate equipment that is unsafe and must be required to
remove equipment from service, to be repaired or replaced. Only qualified personnel
are to move unsafe equipment.
• All inputs like; incidents, accidents, audits, inspections and other reports must be
analyzed and treated efficiently (corrective and preventive actions).
Recommendations and good examples !
• Have good inspection programs
• Report all near misses no matter how
small, something small could result in
something major happening
• Actively participate in audit process, the
life you save may be your own
FPA questions – Emergency drills
L4 – Q2
Are yearly emergency drills conducted to test Rail Emergency Response Plans?
Recommendations and good examples !
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Choose most likely and most severe scenarios
for best preparedness.
Involve external services (fire brigades, mobile
crane services, …) in the exercise.
Add typical risks of steel making processes to
the exercise (e.g. CO-gas area, hot liquid slag
or metal, heavy products (e.g. slabs, blooms,
coils) carbide, hazardous liquids etc.
FPA questions – Emergency drills
L4 – Q3
Are the lessons learnt from the emergency drills included in corrective action plans
and the deviations communicated to all people involved?
Recommendations and good examples !
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Make it as realistic as possible and include the
whole external und internal requirements (e.g.
crisis management, alerts to be given, …)
Debriefing after exercise with a viewing from
different angles: What went good? What can
be done better?
Follow-up of corrective action plans!
Focus especially on weaknesses of previous
exercise during next exercise.
Alcohol or Intoxicants are prohibited!
• Use or possession of alcohol or intoxicants is prohibited on AM property. Other
items are prohibited that at a minimum include:
– Use of medications that adversely affect alertness, coordination, reaction,
response, or safety
– Possession or use of illegal substances
• All workers must be fit an able to do their job
• All workers should be medically fit
Horseplay is prohibited!
The best antidote against
emergencies is
PREVENTION
> Let’s all exercise the utmost
caution to plan prevention into the
safety process to avoid
emergencies.
> Let’s also be well prepared in the
unlikely event our prevention
actions fail, so no harm will come to
our people, equipment or
processes.
Thank you!