Section 5: Responsibilities, Responding and Reporting Flashcards
The rail safety National Law Action 2012 establishes a regulatory scheme with the following key elements
Performance based safety duties, accreditation scheme, rail operators create and implement a safety management system, sanctions and penalties, cost benefit protections, alcohol and drug controls, provisions for the creation of codes of practice
Employee WHS Obligations and responsibilities
ensure actions are int the best interest of your own safety and that of others, ensure you efficiently and effectively identify report and implement appropriate initial controls of any safety and environmental hazard identified, implement emergency management procedures within your work environment as appropriate
Employees must recognise that it is as much their duty to perform work safely as it is to do their work well. Employees must
follow all safeworking practices and procedures, remain alert to hazards, avoid hazards and report them, take necessary action to ensure no other person is endangered, undertake training as necessary, participate in and cooperate with WHS initiatives, ensure all injuries and incidents are notified to management and service delivery centre
Types of operational threats include
Sabotage, vandalism, theft, trespassing, information compromise
In order to responsibly manage and appropriately respond to environmental issues a business should develop prodedures for
contamination of fuel and water supply, the safe handling and management of dangerous goods freight
Communication in the rail network must be
clear brief and unambiguous, relevant to the task at hand, and agreed as to its meaning before being acted upon
To assist with on time running, it is your responsibility to
monitor and record train running schedules
The working timetables book includes information about
Running schedules, locomotive speeds, track speeds, tonnages which can be hauled, length of crossing loops, switch in/out times for signal boxes and shunting yards, special instructions, local instructions
TRACO
train running report form
Information recorded in TRACO
locomotive and train number, number of wagons and tonnage hauled, length of train, sign on and off times, running times, amount of fuel used, scheduled and actual time at locations en route, reason and length of delays, any incidents which occur
Incident report books record details of incidents such as
detaching a vehicle en route, train running delays, locomotive failure, level crossing accidents, safeworking irregularities, injury to personnel, load shifts, defective wagons
To manage an emergency is may be necessary for you to
isolate the incident and control and safeguard the site, prevent further danger/harm, stabilise a situation within the limitations of duty of care and workplace procedures and wait for expert emergency services to arrive
While carrying out safeworking, the 3 C’s are
communicate, cross check and challenge