Rail Engineering and Design Safety Management 2014

Key Topics

• Best practice including safety standards such as EN50126
• Risk in the context of the railway, design and safety management
• The principles of EDSM
• How design and the safety lifecycle interact and influence each other
• Hazards, risks, risk assessment and its approaches
• Standards to aid management of design risk
• Approaches to risk acceptance and ALARP and legislative requirements for rail design risk
• Standards and how risks in general should be managed
• The need for a risk based systems engineering lifecycle approach to enable built-in safety, value and performance
• Safety plan and safety-related information including hazard logs and other safety records
• The concept of the designer as a ‘rail safety worker’ and its implications
• Optimising system safety and engineering design requirements in a business context
• Project management, systems engineering and integration, validation and stakeholder management in the overall rail business context
• Case studies and practical risk management skills

Who should Attend

Project managers, decision makers, engineers, line managers, designers and others involved in the railway idustry.