Research on the Railway Safety Management System Self-assessment Criteria and Supervision Inspection Mechanism
- Date：2023-09-20
- Update：2023-09-20
- Department：IOT
Project Overview
The plan reviews foreign railways and the civil aviation industry’s SMS evaluation mechanisms, criteria, and tools to compile a self-assessment and supervisory inspection mechanism for implementation by operational institutions and supervision agencies. In addition, in reference to references and research results over the past few years, 36 assessment criteria, more detailed preliminary inspection tools, self-assessments, and effective inspection tools. Operational institutions can use the criteria and tools to evaluate the conformity and validity of their own SMS, while refining their SMS. The Railway Bureau uses the same criteria and tools to inspect whether or not the operational mechanism’s SMS conforms to laws and regulations and whether or not the self-assessment results are true, with suggestions provided.
Research Results
- Taking into consideration foreign experiences and Taiwan’s existing mechanisms, the SMS evaluation mechanism has been developed, inclusion supervisory inspections (preliminary inspection and validity inspection), as well as operational institution self-assessments.
- While verifying the evaluation mechanisms, the plan has also developed more specific evaluation criteria for compliance by supervisory agencies and operational institutions.
- Based on assessment criteria, evaluation tools for use by supervisory agencies and operational mechanisms have been developed. To facilitate application in practical SMS evaluation operations by supervisory agencies and operational mechanisms’ safety management departments.
Result Promotion and Benefits
- Four education training sessions have been conducted in order to explain the plan’s evaluation mechanisms, criteria, and tools to railway supervisory agencies and operational institutions, as well as train seed personnel to facilitate the future implementation of the SMS evaluation mechanism.
- It shall serve as a reference for domestic railway operational institutions to gain insight into the SMS promotion gap and the degree of implementation, thereby serving as a basis for formulating improvement strategies.
- Through evaluation criteria, examine the SMS promotion gap, thereby strengthening the focus of parodic inceptions by railway supervisory institutions.
- Assists railway operational institutions in enhancing the operational standards of the safety management system.
Summary of Research Results
Railway SMS self-assessment and supervisory inspection mechanism architecture in Taiwan
Railway SMS self-assessment and examples of validity inspection tools in Taiwan
Research Result Report
- A Study on Improving 12 Key Elements in Railway Safety Management System – the Development of Practical Operation Guidelines (Published in May 2022)
- A Study on Railway Safety Management Systems – the Development of Self-Assessment Criteria and Supervisory Inspection Mechanisms (Published in May 2023)