Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
22 February 2017
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Lisbeth Fromling
Chief Health, Safety & Quality Officer
Background:
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Network Rail
We own and operate the railway infrastructure in England, Wales and Scotland on behalf
of the nation.
Thats 20,000 miles of track, 40,000 bridges and viaducts and thousands of tunnels,
signals, level crossings and points. We also manage rail timetabling and 18 of the largest
stations in England, Scotland and Wales.
We work round-the-clock to provide a safe, reliable experience for the millions using
Europes fastest-growing railway each and every day.
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Fatigue Risk Management
Fatigue is a high risk in Network Rail due to:
Complex rostering
Shift working
Long working hours
The risk is primarily related to workforce safety, although train accident risk is also
impacted. This is a recognised risk in the industry, originally linked to fatigued workers
making mistakes that caused train accidents. More recently, road traffic accidents related
to fatigue have caused workforce fatalities and serious injuries.
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Fatigue Risk Management
The Fatigue Risk Management project has been created to reduce the risks
associated with fatigue in our organisation.
The standard has been developed in close cooperation with our TU reps
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The current state
Sentinel has not had the swipe in and swipe out function in place to
control working hours effectively
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What are the main concerns?
Long working hours - connected with travel to and from home, and multiple
obligations when arriving home
In the oil industry, colleagues work 12 hour shifts but then they have 12
hours off where everyday tasks are complete for them. For example,
cooking, cleaning and the washing of clothes.
They do not have to commute home from work, or complete any family
duties at home at the end of the day.
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What are the main concerns?
Shift working with multiple changes to working hours
Most other industries work dayshift or night shift for periods of time making it
possible to adjust your body clock.
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What are the main concerns?
Health issues when not getting enough sleep
Fatigue can lead to higher risk of chronic health problems like high blood
pressure, heart disease, and stroke.
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What are the main concerns?
Safety incidents impacting workforce, passengers and public
Fatigue could cause you to loose focus when driving, sitting in a signal box, or
being a lookout.
Fatigue also increases the risk of injury when completing a task. This could be a
slip or a cut, or something much more severe
Fatigue can kill.
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What are the main concerns?
We are not good at speaking openly about fatigue
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What is changing?
Implementation of the standard will result in:
The business considering the risk of fatigue for all staff, not just those undertaking safety critical
work
The introduction of a fatigue risk assessment where staff are working in excess of 60 hours within
a 7 day period
The introduction of a second fatigue risk assessment when a worker works a 72 hour week
limiting the activities they can undertake
A 14 hour working day (door to door) will be the limit for staff
The maximum Fatigue Risk Index (FRI) score of 45 will be reduced to 40 thus reducing the fatigue
risk exposure of our staff
There will be a requirement to keep records of staff working hours
Sentinel
Swipe in and swipe out functionality will help support control of fatigue
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What is the current process?
The standard:
Has been revised in line with the STE Standard Steering Group Process. Stakeholder
engagement has raised some concerns with different areas of the businesses ability to comply
with elements of the standard.
Work is currently underway to assess the impact of the standard across Network Operations and
to create implementation plans.
The aim is to gain stakeholder approval to publish the revised Standard in June 2017 with a
compliance date of September 2017.
The expectation will be for areas of the business that cannot comply by September 2017 to
submit temporary variations in line with their implementation plans.
The three training modules are currently undergoing final editing including the addition of subtitles
The modules will be complete by end of Feb 2017, after which roll out will commence.
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Next steps
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We still need to get better
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Any questions?
Act Plan
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