Railway

Rail industry hazards and risks

The course provides an overview of the typical hazards associated with railway infrastructure, rolling stock, operations and maintenance.

2 days

Course	Location & Date
Rail industry hazards and risks	N/A

Members:
£900.00 Plus vat

Non Members:
£995.00 Plus vat

Summary

The course provides an overview of the typical hazards associated with railway infrastructure, rolling stock, operations and maintenance.

It also provides an introduction to the concepts of risk management and an understanding of the role of risk management through the rail project lifecycle. This involves studying the different sources of risk in the rail industry, the regulatory regimes of the industry, the typical phases of a project and opportunities for risk reduction within each of the phases, and the final acceptance into service.

Who should attend?

This course is suitable for recent graduates, engineers moving into new roles within the rail industry, production and engineering managers, infrastructure and asset managers and, design, maintenance and safety engineers

How will I benefit?

After the course you will be able to:

Describe the various drivers which cause railway organisations to manage safety risk
Explain the principle sources of hazards and the associated risks which typically arise within railway projects and operations
Apply knowledge of these hazards and the available mitigations to the management of risk within the rail industry.

Contributes 14 CPD hours

Key topics

Sources of Risk in the Rail Industry
Hazardous Events
Regulatory Regimes
The Risk Management Process
Hazard Identification
Risk Evaluation
Railway Hazard Management

Meet our trainers

These trainers regularly teach Rail industry hazards and risks.

Gordon Dixon

Gordon has 27 years’ experience of risk assessment on projects in major hazard industries, including development of Safety Cases and supporting risk assessments for the rail, nuclear, offshore production facilities, drilling rigs, onshore gas and process plant and transportation industries. Gordon’s work has included research projects for the HSE, HAZID studies, QRA, cost benefit analysis and ALARP demonstrations.

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At a glance

Duration:

2 days
CPD Hours:

14
UK-Spec:

A

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