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
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• This programme is subject to change.
• The Institution is not responsible for the views or opinions expressed by individual speakers.