International Railway Safety Network

International Railway Safety Network (IRSN)

Chair: Guillaume Foeillet, SNCF UIC Coordinator: Isabelle Fonverne Meetings: 3 to 4 times a year.

The International Railway Safety Network is a subgroup of the UIC Safety Platform Steering Group (SPSG) with the goal of fostering safety for Railways, taking into account the operation process by:

• exchanging safety experiences and backgrounds;
• learning from each other;
• facilitating good and trusting relations among railway safety experts.

Main results

• Exchanges on Incidents/Accidents and prevention of SPADs
• Exchanges on good practices
• Evolution of safety culture, fair and just culture in railways
• ILCAD – Level Crossing Accident Prevention
• Simplification of rules
• Safety Performance Metric Group
• Falls from platforms
• Innovation (VR) in railways
• Distraction by new media and use of electronic devices

Benchmarking / Surveys for comparing safety practices in different companies:

• Survey on railway accidents due to trespassing
• Survey on shunting methods (technical and organisational measures)
• Survey on shunting issues
• Survey on prevention of railway suicides
• Survey on measures taken to avoid collisions with animals on tracks
• Survey on the mission and organisation of the safety department in different companies
• Survey on Bridge Infrastructure requirements
• Survey on Monitoring Safety of Railway Operations
• Survey on permissive red signals
• Survey on CSIs

Members

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