Research and analysis

4th Rail Accident Investigators Seminar

On 10/11/21 RAIB held its 4th seminar in Birmingham for accident investigators working in the UK rail industry .

• From: Rail Accident Investigation Branch
• Published: 12 November 2021

Documents

Track workers struck by a train at Margam - the accident and its causes

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Understanding the Factors Affecting Safety Behaviours of Controllers of Site Safety (COSSs)

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Margam - Investigating the assurance arrangements

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Investigation compliance to 019

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Trackworker Thematic Investigation

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Investigating Software Failures

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The importance of Corporate Memory in accident investigation

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Use of Safety-II in accident investigation

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RCIP - A new approach to road collision investigation

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Details

This year’s Rail Accident Investigators seminar welcomed speakers from Network Rail, RSSB and Dr Patrick Waterston of Loughborough University as well as some of our own inspectors.

The presentations included:

• An overview of the fatal accident at Margam
• Understanding how causal factors contribute towards track worker accidents and near misses
• Investigating the assurance arrangements
• Investigating compliance to 019
• Investigating loss of data on Cambrian lines
• The importance of Corporate Memory in accident investigation
• The use of Safety II in rail accident investigations
• RCIP - A new approach to road collision investigation

The presentations we currently have have been uploaded. We are working to make them accessible and will add others once we have them.

Published 12 November 2021