Engineering Safety Management Progress

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Engineering Safety ManagementProgress Future
Plans

• Rod Muttram Rob Davis

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Overview

• Activities since YBUG4
• Progress since YB3 Launch
• Plans for YB4
• Audience Feedback

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Conclusions from YBUG4

• The Yellow Book should focus more on European
  issues and
• A period of stability and review is now needed
  and the focus should be on supplementing YB3
  rather than reissuing it.

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User Feedback

• Requests for increased guidance on best practice
  and engineering judgement
• especially with regard to cross acceptance
• Suggestion that addressing systems and system
  level issues was an important next step
• Proposal to integrate human factors better into
  the Yellow Book
• Request for better recognition of the affects and
  influence that the civil engineering discipline
  has on the infrastructure, safety and operation
  of the railway

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Steering Group Response

• It is still too early to make plans to issue YB4
• A correction sheet should be published in paper
  and on the web site to inform users of errors in
  YB3
• A series of brief application notes should be
  published on the web site to provide
  supplementary guidance
• Additional training should be considered in the
  topics of application notes

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Yellow Book 3
Volume 1 Fundamentals
Fundamentals
Obligations Liabilities
Organisation
Change
Project
Volume 2 Guidance
Organisation
Change
Project
Application Notes
Railway Level
ISA
Software
Human Factors
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Application Notes

• THREAD 2
• SYSTEMS
• Systems issues
• Software and EN 50128
• COTS
• Cross acceptance
• Independent Safety Assessment

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Comparative Study

• Banverket (Sweden)
• Nothing that would require a new fundamental
• Banverket more integrated
• Sweden does not use ALARP
• Banverket less formal in Change Management
• CTRL
• Nothing that would require a new fundamental
• CTRL implement all fundamentals
• Implementation is sometimes different to guidance

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YB3 Published January 2000
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Volume 1
4,000 copies 0.5 tonnes
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Volume 1
220 copies
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Volume 2
2,000 copies 1.25 tonnes
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Volume 2
50 copies
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Web Site

• About 5000 hits/yr
• About 10 pages/visit
• Discussion group dormant for 7 months
• What changes would the User Group suggest?

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Yellow Book Status

• Consideration given to it becoming a Group
  Standard
• But
• Considered that multi-stakeholder ownership had
  greater advantages
• Not aligned to a single organisation
• Wider representation than RSSB
• People who care
• Expert practitioners

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Training
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Engineering Safety ManagementProgress Future
Plans

• Rod Muttram Rob Davis

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Steering Group

• Roger Aylward, ROSCO Brian Clementson, Train
  Operator
• David Sawer/Derek Hill, HMRI John Corrie,
  Consultant
• Robert Davis, Consultant Andy Doherty, Railtrack
  Engineering
• Bruce Elliott, Consultant Terry George,
  Signalling Supplier/RIA
• Eddie Goddard, LUL Keith Watson, Railtrack
  Acceptance
• Ali Hessami, Dev Expert Rod Muttram, Railway
  Safety (Chair)
• Dee Razdan, TRS Supplier/RIA Chris Thompson,
  Consultant
• Jeff Allan, Railway Safety Hugo de Jong,
  Railinfrabeheer
• supported by
• Katherine Ardern, Plain English Campaign

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Steering Group

• Formed in August 1998 from key industry staff
• Retain review remit to oversee promote
  effectiveness of Yellow Book on industry
• Stronger focus on European influence since last
  time
• Time for review
• Staff changes retirements
• Industry changes
• Nominate new members
• Personal standing in the field
• Broadly representative of the current industry
• Time and will to commit
• Some continuity required
• Further nominations for editorial group always
  welcome

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Yellow Book 4 Possible Aims

• Increase the scope
• More explicit about steady state
• During Standards Production
• To assess TNCs
• Assess incidents and pre-cursers
• Cover Cross Acceptance
• Organisational change
• Update the content
• Include implications of Interoperability
  legislation
• Correct any inaccuracies and inconsistencies
• Keep Reference Book style
• Give more examples?
• More templates Support?
• Skeleton documents
• Basic Hazard Log
• Tool demos

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Additional Fundamentals

• Cover 'Normal Operation' and 'Change'
• Understanding risk
• Improving safety
• Reviewing safety
• Suggestions from staff suppliers
• Externally driven change
• Monitoring of change
• Currently in draft and will be concluded when
  scope of YB4 is agreed

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Provisional Yellow Book 4 Programme

• Establish Scope April 2003
• Design Structure June 2003
• Draft Text October 2003
• Launch January 2004

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Safety Platform
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Safety Directive
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SAMRail - Aims

• To Develop a Comprehensive Consistent Approach
  for
• Safety Assurance Across EU Railways
• Supporting the EU Safety Directive
• Supporting EU transport Policy on High-Speed
  Directive
• Implementing a Common Safety Policy
• Establishing Common Criteria for Safety
  Performance
• Preparing for Harmonisation of Assessment
  Targets
• Taking into Account
• Existing best practice in Railways and Critical
  Industries
• International Standards
• Legal, Cultural and Economic needs
• Technical and Scientific Innovations

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SAMRail Requirements, Capture

• Requirements Capture Workshop
• Identify all stakeholders
• Arrange a timely consultation workshop
• Elicit key requirements from all
• Develop graphical representation
• Review for completeness and additional input
• Review against existing sources

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SAMRail Rewards

• Project Rewards
• First systemic and principled regime across a
  continent
• First harmonised Safety Assurance System
• Enhance even well performing national systems
• Cut across legal and cultural barriers
• Could influence Safety Management in the EU
• Cater for advances in technology
• Facilitate expansion and interoperability
• Simplify certification and acceptance/approvals
• Improve safety and reduce costs in EU Railways

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SamRail UK Workshop

• Rod Muttram will host
• SamRail Project (Atkins) will outline SamRail
  seek UK input
• All UK Stakeholders will be welcome
• Charge will be to cover costs only

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Conclusions

• YB3 is standing the test of time very well
• Real progress has been made since last YBUG
• Europe is becoming increasingly important as
  predicted
• Recent changes in the industry have drawn
  attention elsewhere
• We need to accelerate progress again
• Outline Plans are in place for YB4
• Your feedback is as important as ever