| Title | A Preliminary Application of Risk Management of Railway Transportation Safety—A Case Study of Risk Identification for the Taiwan Railway Administration |
| Dept | Transportation Safety Division |
| Year | 2011 |
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| Summary | Providing safe transportation service is one of the most important targets of railway operators. To achieve this objective, risk management techniques have been widely applied to railway industries to enhance the safety level. In the risk management process, the first step is risk identification, because it is essential to the following risk analysis and evaluation. Through risk identification, operators can discover potential safety hazards and then adopt appropriate mitigation measures. This study applied the techniques of “comparisons of similar systems”, “analysis of historical accident records”, “brain storming” and other methods to identify the safety hazards of the Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA). The study discovered 113 hazards, which can be further categorized into moving, non-moving, train, and natural hazards. The results can help the TRA to manage safety risks, and can be used as the basis for risk analysis and evaluation. This study also employed fault tree analysis and event tree analysis to investigate two hazards related to level-crossing. All possible failures leading to the hazards and the key events resulting in serious outcomes are analyzed. Based on the results, this study suggested some improvement strategies, which may be beneficial to the overall level-crossing safety. |
| Post date | 2011/08/05 |
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