18. Horizon Scanning, Covid-19 and Rail Biosafety
This episode looks at how the RSSB Horizon Scanning programme has identified issues and helped companies make the best possible decisions around the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. With a vaccination programme well under way, Claire Shooter talks about the support that has been delivered, and how to deal with the uncertainty of the future.
17: When Software Goes Wrong - Engaging Your Imagination
In the last of the When Software Goes Wrong series, we talk about incidents and a concept that will engage your creativity and imagination to think about reasonably foreseeable scenarios - what could go wrong - and how to design them out of your own software-based projects.
16. Defining a New Rail Sustainability Strategy
In this episode I talk with RSSB's recently appointed Director for Sustainable Development, George Davies, about his vision for a new Rail Sustainability Strategy. He also talks about his plans for how to collaborate with industry colleagues to agree, implement, and communicate the strategy and the progress it achieves.
15: When Software Goes Wrong - A Quick Recovery
In this episode Dr Emma Taylor talks about how good documentation helped a quick recovery when a complex, software-based software system unexpectedly shut down in 2014. The system used to control aircraft movements over the whole of England and Wales.
14: When Software Goes Wrong - A City Metro System
In this episode Dr Emma Taylor talks about the software issues that caused a collision while testing a new signalling system on a city's metro system, to extract the lessons learned so that we can avoid similar errors on the GB railway.
13: When Software Goes Wrong - The Cambrian Line Incident
In this episode Dr Emma Taylor talks about the software issues that caused the Cambrian Line incident, the lessons learned, and the industry's response to recommendation 3 in the RAIB report.
Episode 12: Trespass kills: the ORR perspective
This podcast looks at how the ORR assess whether railway companies are doing enough to reduce trespass risk and the role of the new guidance on trespass risk assessment in helping to meet that objective.
Episode 11: Trespass kills: assessing trespass risk
This episode looks at the new RSSB guidance on trespass risk assessment. We also discuss how well trespass prevention measures work, with an example of how higher fences had a dramatic effect on trespass incidents. We consider the advantages of having a consistent assessment method, and whether we have a clear picture of what measures reduce the risk of trespass to as low as reasonably practicable.
10: When Software Goes Wrong - A Need for Culture Change
Part 2 of this podcast looks at the culture change that will be needed to address digital safety threats. The need for traditional design engineers to broaden their sphere of thinking, and to bring others into design conversations. Emma also talks about the need to start thinking about reasonably foreseeable scenarios. For us all to start thinking about what could go wrong when you consider the digital components within your physical assets.
9: When Software Goes Wrong - The NIS Regulations 2018
Part 1 of this podcast looks at the NIS Regulations 2018and their effect on the rail industry. Who should be concerned, and what we need to do to demonstrate compliance and avoid fines of up to £17m. What to do until we have a good body of precursors to digital incidents; and what aspects or operations should be considered as safety critical.
8: Could you help save a life?
This episode looks at the rail industry partnership with Samaritans', and at the Managing Suicidal Contacts training programme. And one front line customer experience manager tells us about how the training gave him the confidence to intervene. Then he tells a story about just one of the 29 live-saving interventions he has made. Helping to deliver a better, safer railway.
7: Trespass kills: its impact on a better, safer railway
This podcast looks at how trespass impacts the railway. Its operational, financial, and human costs.
6: When Software Goes Wrong - Digital Asset Integrity on the Railway
This podcast looks at how greater use of digital technologies will impact asset integrity, and the increased collaboration among previously separate fields that will be needed to deliver a better, safer railway.
5: Station Plans for Accidents: improving customer care
In this podcast Sara Sherrard and Tom Moran talks about failings in customer care and the improvements implemented after Sara's mother suffered a fatal accident at Mill Hill Station.
4: Leading Health and Safety on Britain's Railway: collaborating to reduce railway risk
Dougie Hill, Head of National Freight Strategy & Policy at Direct Rail Services, and Geoff Spencer, former CEO of DB Cargo (UK) talk through the challenges faced to get commercially competing companies to collaborate to deliver a better, safer railway.
3: Confidential reporting: reducing railway risk
Catherine Baker, director of the Confidential Incident Reporting and Analysis Service (CIRAS), talks about how the confidential reporting service works. She discusses the types of incidents and reasons for calls, and examples of the results that CIRAS achieves.
2: Signals passed at danger: reducing railway risk
Trevor Parkin of East Midlands Railway and Chris Harrison of RSSB talk about what the rail industry is doing to reduce the number of signals passed at danger, and so the likelihood of a potentially fatal train accident.
1: Covid-19, Lockdown and your Mental Wellbeing
Joana Faustino, Work Psychologist at RSSB, talks about the feelings we might be experiencing and some coping strategies for the pressures that we are facing.
