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Vojtech EKSLER & Cecilia LIND Safety Unit

Designing tools for enhanced monitoring of railway safety performance of the European Union and its Member States. Vojtech EKSLER & Cecilia LIND Safety Unit. Part I: Introducing SMS for Europe. Introduction (1). “You cannot manage what you cannot measure.” Kelvin, Kaplan

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Vojtech EKSLER & Cecilia LIND Safety Unit

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  1. Designing tools for enhanced monitoring of railway safety performance of the European Union and its Member States Vojtech EKSLER & Cecilia LIND SafetyUnit

  2. Part I: • Introducing SMS for Europe

  3. Introduction (1) • “You cannot manage what you cannot measure.” • Kelvin, Kaplan • …so you cannot improve what you cannot monitor. • Railway safety management in Europe has been evolving into a three management layer system (Railway Undertakings, National Safety Authorities, ERA) with each having distinct responsibilities. • Tools for each levels are needed for effective management.

  4. Introduction (2) Safety monitoring through outcomes: Fatal train collisions and derailments per billion train-km in the EU

  5. Introduction (3) • PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION • Less than ten fatal train collisions and derailments per year at EU level. • With continuous improvement in railway safety, relying on accident data becomes unsustainable. • Difficult to improve the system with accident data only (reactive approach). • EU and national regulators rely on analytical approaches that is only one element of system approach to safety.

  6. SMS for Europe (1) • Concept of an SMS applied until now only at the operators’ level to be extended to national (MSs) and supranational (EU) level. • Hazards are not always limited geographically and sometimes their identification may only be possible when considering relevant data available across the EU. • SMS for Europe should add value, not replace the existing system at national level.

  7. SMS for Europe (2) • First building blocks of the European SMS: • EU/National safety plans • Enabling legal framework currently under discussion with MSs • Common database of occurrences • Top-level occurrences to be mandatory shared at EU level, lower-level occurrences reported in a harmonized way • Enhanced monitoring • Enhanced monitoring of outcomes and system monitoring (regulatory regime).

  8. Enhanced monitoring • Two parts: Outcomes monitoring and regulatory regime monitoring I II

  9. Enhanced monitoring of outcomes • Current legal framework for outcomes reporting in the EU • Based on a study for ERA by TRL (UK)

  10. Part II: • Monitoring regulatory regime performance

  11. Understanding risk regulation regimes

  12. Theoretical basis • Stems from modern management theories, notably Stewhart’s cycle for continuous improvements and quality control • Other sources: ISO standards, safety management in othersectors, studyby DNV for ERA

  13. The Regulatory Monitoring Matrix

  14. Levelsofperformance

  15. Example of application (1)

  16. Example of application (2) 2.1 Establishment and responsibilities

  17. Areas for use • Prioritise ERA tasks • Input to safety analysis (trends) • Voluntary health checks of individual MSs • Input to work-streams and missions • Impact assessments

  18. Timing • PART I: • New legal framework in 2014 • Preparatory works ongoing • PART II • Currently running a pilot with 5 countries • Evaluation by summer 2014

  19. Thankyou for your attention! • Contact: • Vojtech.EKSLER@era.europa.eu • +33 (0)3 27 09 65 75 • Cecilia.LIND@era.europa.eu • +33 (0)3 27 09 67 38 • http://www.era.europa.eu/Core-Activities/Safety/Pages/Home.aspx

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