| Title | A Preliminary Examination of Employing Risk Management for Railway Transportation Safety - A Case Study on Risk Treatment, Management Monitoring, and Management Improvement for the Taiwan Railways Administration |
| Dept | Transportation Safety Division |
| Year | 2013 |
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| Summary | This study was based on the outcome of previous studies conducted in 2010 and 2011 and was centered on the continuous implementation of the fourth to sixth steps of risk management (RM) conducted by the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA). This study consists of two topics. The first is risk treatment, and the second concerns risk management monitoring and improvement.
Among previous studies on the first topic, this study reviewed numerous practical cases involving the operation methods of domestic and foreign railway systems. Furthermore, two particular hazards, namely, collisions with motor vehicles at railroad crossings and passenger assaults, were further examined. In addition to explaining the key task of risk treatment (i.e., the optimal scope of cost and benefit analysis [CBA]), the parameters of various analyses were defined. After implementing risk treatment, we obtained the following findings: (a) Despite comprehensively installing railway crossings with obstacle detectors, the level of risk remains unacceptable. Thus, improvement measures for roads near railway crossings are also required. (b) The majority of benefits regarding improvement measures for preventing passengers from being assaulted are difficult to quantify. Therefore, we suggest that passengers’ sense of security may be a more appropriate indicator than fatalities and weighted injuries (FWI) for evaluating the effectiveness of improvement measures. Among previous studies on the second topic, we reviewed relevant domestic and foreign manuals as well as standards to summarize the theoretical principles of risk management monitoring and improvement. The organization framework for practical promotion of RM used by domestic and foreign railway systems was also examined, and seven key tasks for implementing risk management were concluded. Based on these key tasks, existing difficulties for the process of RM promotion in the TRA were examined and identified. Finally, this study recommends TRA to conduct adjustments from three perspectives, specifically organization, system, and operation. We anticipate that the findings of this study can serve as future reference for the TRA to improve overall system safety. |
| Post date | 2013/09/07 |
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