Overview
This highly topical technical lecture looks at the rail industry and what can be learnt from past mistakes.
With delays on the railway and near misses occurring due to signalling, communications, repairs and other factors, reducing the risk to passengers and equipment on the railway is at the top of the industry's list.
Join the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to hold a spotlight over real case studies of accidents and near-miss scenarios and identify how best to reduce risk on the railways.
Greg Morse, RSSB’s Operational Feedback Specialist, will demonstrate some of the ways the rail industry has learned from accidents in the past and how it intends to go on learning in the future. One of the challenges rail faces comes with getting the message across, after all the investigating, recommending, publishing and tracking has been done. Storytelling (a recognised knowledge management aid) can help. With this in mind, the stories of two accidents – the collision and derailment at Polmont in 1984, and a train fire near Taunton in 1978 – will be featured. Both are used to demonstrate how lessons are incorporated into rules, practices and new technology, but both are also used to demonstrate the need to look at those lower level events that always seem to crop up in the causal chain – a vital move if safety is to be maintained and improved upon.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Chief Reliability Engineer
Design Engineer
Project Engineer
Systems Engineer
Route Asset Manager
Safety Engineer
Head of Reliability
Operations Engineer
Director Engineering
Director of Technology
Engineering Director
Chief Technologist
Technical Specialist
Managing Director
Safety consultant
Rail Consultant
Principle Consultant
Business Development Manager
Accounts Manager
Reliability Consultant
Rail Engineer