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Legislative Council Select Committee on Train Services Alan Osborne Director, Public Transport Safety Chris McKeown General Manager Safety Systems Rail safety regulation Operators required to comply with the Victorian Rail Safety Act

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Legislative Council Select Committee on Train Services

Alan Osborne Director, Public Transport Safety Chris McKeown General Manager Safety Systems

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Rail safety regulation › Operators required to comply with the Victorian Rail Safety Act 2006 › Essentially requires the safety accreditation of rail operators and monitoring ongoing performance › Key priority is the prevention of catastrophic train accidents

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Rail accidents – Australian focus

› A 10 year chronology of significant accidents….

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Glenbrook, NSW – December 1999

Source: Emergency Management NSW – downloaded on 2/09/09 from: http://www.emergency.nsw.gov.au/content.php/646.html

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Holmesglen, Vic. – July 2000

Source: Department of Transport

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Footscray, Vic. – June 2001

Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau

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Epping, Vic. – June 2002

Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau

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Epping – Additional view

Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau

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Waterfall, NSW – January 2003

Source: The Age

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Broadmeadows, Vic. - February 2003

Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau

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Trawalla, Vic. - April 2006

Source: Railpage.com.au

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Kerang, Vic. - June 2007

Source: Daily Telegraph

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Reduction in system type events over the last 3 years › Rail Safety Act 2006 (Vic) represented an incremental improvement in rail system safety › Kerang accident has been the most serious accident since the Act came into

peration - a road accident which

seriously impacted on the rail system

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We must remain vigilant

› Management of issues which could lead to serious events eg:

› broken rails (derailment risk) › track buckling (derailment risk) › tri-colour signals (collision risk) › train braking (collision risk)

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Broken rail performance over 3 years

Track & civil infrastructure irregularity - broken rail

5 7 3 9 10 18 18 16 5 10 15 20 25 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2007 2008 2009 2007 Trend 2008 Trend 2009 Trend

Heavy rail Victoria 2007 - 2009

Trend: M oving average 3mth Source: PTSV Occurrence

Database. Data as

reported to PTSV from Accredited Operator.

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Buckled track performance over 3 years

Track & civil infrastructure irregularity - buckled track

29 5 1 1 3 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2007 2008 2009 2007 Trend 2008 Trend 2009 Trend

Heavy rail Victoria 2007 - 2009

Trend: M oving average 3mth Source: PTSV Occurrence

Database. Data as

reported to PTSV from Accredited Operator.

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Derailment performance over 3 years

Derailments - running line

3 2 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2007 2008 2009 2007 Trend 2008 Trend 2009 Trend

Heavy rail Victoria 2007 - 2009

Trend: M oving average 3mth Source: PTSV Occurrence

Database. Data

as reported to PTSV from Accredited Operator.

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SPAD performance over 3 years

Signals passed at danger - human error

7 1 2 7 6 3 3 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2007 2008 2009 2007 Trend 2008 Trend 2009 Trend

Heavy rail Victoria 2007 - 2009

Trend: M oving average 3mth Source: PTSV Occurrence

Database. Data as

reported to PTSV from Accredited Operator. Human error SPADs include driver misjudged, completely missed while running and starting against signal. Excludes other.

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Management of rail safety

› Maintaining good engineering inspection regimes to monitor event precursors › Putting safety ahead of operational performance › Using speed restrictions to manage safety with identified problems › Recent international accidents provide examples

f where this has not occurred….

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Chatsworth, LA – September 2008

Source: Los Angeles Times ‘Federal inquiry into Chatworth finds rail oversight woefully inadequate’

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Washington – June 2009

Source: The Telegraph

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Dublin - August 2009

Source: Irish Independent ‘Calls for major investigation into rail safety’

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Importance of safety culture › We have a good operational safety culture in the rail network in Victoria › This means safety performance must come ahead of operational performance › It is very important that this continues

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Summary

› PTSV is proactively monitoring the safety performance of Victoria’s railways › We have seen a reduction of system type accidents in Victoria over the last 3 years › We must though continue to be vigilant › This has required the rail network to slow down or stop on occasions