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www.railpro.co.uk In safe hands
Gareth Llewellyn, Director, Safety and Sustainable Development at Network Rail on the big new safety developments taking place within the organisation
Plus... New innovations in signalling
On rail competition Engalnd’s signalling heritage
Plus The psychology of effective trauma care Social value in infrastructure procurement New rules for energy trading on the horizon Can a station be terrorist-proof?
The man in charge
David Statham, the new MD at First Capital Connect on his plans for the future
Signalling industry going global
Human Behaviour: Dr Guy Walker on predicting driver errors
Industry walking the talk on innovation
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Editor’s Note
TN Productions’ Spain’s Worst Rail Disaster was an impressive account of the recent catastrophic rail crash in Santiago de Compostella, Spain. Among a range of new insights, it looked at how the driver could have failed to slow down – we know that he was distracted by a phone call, but it postulated that, as well as the fact that stretch of the line had only occasional monitoring of the track, he lost his bearings after driving through one similar tunnel after another and braked too late by the time he realised where he was – showing that even the most experienced drivers are vulnerable to the ‘human factor’. The programme featured several leading rail experts including Dr Guy Walker, who has written a piece for Rail Professional this month on Human Factors in rail accidents. Walker and his team are analysing on-train data recorders to look at where human factors risks might be increasing. Giving a simple example of the so-called vigilance decrement, ‘We know’, says Walker, ‘that after 15 minutes of not having much to do, reaction times start to slow down, and we can examine black box data for instances where long periods of monotony are broken by periods of sudden high activity. Psychological research tells us what sorts of errors might become more likely if we put people in this situation: large-scale black box data tells us exactly where such situations might be occurring in real life.’ Walker believes that just as the UK is currently a world-leader in flight data monitoring, there is a major opportunity for it to become a leader in rail data monitoring too. ‘By doing so we can go beyond the headlines and get to the root of how something like this could happen and stop it before it does.’ We saw how social value plays its part in rail procurement last month in an interesting piece on the Bank station upgrade. As part of TfL’s Innovative Contractor Engagement process, Dragados, correctly, saw a real chance to win the job by placing emphasis on the social benefits of moving more people through the station faster – benefits that over a 60-year period translated to £148,625,000.
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This month, new columnist Chris Williams-Lilley urges rail businesses to recognise that
important changes in CSR are taking place right now because of the introduction of the Social Value Act 2012 - ‘Sustainability is about to get teeth’, he says. Williams-Lilley cautions businesses not to imagine that customer
satisfaction is only about price and service anymore and advises: ‘Go beyond the boundaries of your company and explore advances in sustainable procurement in your supply chain.’ Wise words.
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