Railway safety performance in the European Union

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40 Managing safety
Assessing safety management systems The railway safety directive requires national safety authorities to assess the safety management systems (SMSs) of railway undertakings (RUs) and infrastructure managers (IMs). If the SMS meets requirements set out in the railway safety directive the NSA can issue a safety certificate to an RU or an authorisation to an IM. This is known as Part A certification. The Part B certificate relates to the network specifics for the infrastructure and/or the vehicles used and operated. Part A certificates for RUs are valid throughout the EU, whereas the RUs will need to obtain a Part B certificate for each Member State in which they operate. The Agency issued draft assessment criteria in 2007 for NSAs to use when assessing the SMS relevant for the Part A certificate. The criteria, that together with a set of principles for both the assessment process and the supervision regime, form the common safety method on conformity assessment (CSM CA), became regulation in 2010. Safety management system A safety management system (SMS) is a documented process for managing risks, integrating the operation of the railway, the vehicles and the infrastructure. It helps to ensure that railway undertakings and infrastructure managers are operating safely and maintaining their part of the railway systems. Harmonisation of the assessment of the SMS ensures that the market is open and competitive because each Member State will be adopting a consistent and transparent process for managing safety. The Agency has recently developed, together with the NSAs, guidance for SMSs. It is available on the Agency’s website. 41
Page 1: 2011 Railway safety performance in
Page 5 and 6: Contents 6 Foreword 8 Summary 12 Re
Page 7 and 8: ATP CSI CSM CA CSTs ECM ERA ERADIS
Page 9 and 10: This is the fourth annual report by
Page 11 and 12: Railways remain one of the safest m
Page 14 and 15: 12 Reporting on serious and signifi
Page 16 and 17: Reporting by safety authorities Rep
Page 18 and 19: 16 Safety performance
Page 20 and 21: Fatalities and serious injuries In
Page 22 and 23: Similarly, as in previous years, a
Page 24 and 25: The drop in the number of wrong-sid
Page 26 and 27: . . Infrastructure Three CSIs conce
Page 28 and 29: . Figure 11: Percentage of level cr
Page 30 and 31: 28 Reporting accidents by the inves
Page 32 and 33: Table 3: Average time span between
Page 34 and 35: 32 Major EU rail accidents in 2010
Page 36 and 37: Event: Date, time and location: Out
Page 38 and 39: Event: Date, time and location: Out
Page 40: Event: Date, time and location: Out
Page 45 and 46: Safety certificates issued In 2009,
Page 48 and 49: 46 Economic evaluation of safety
Page 50 and 51: 48 Looking forward
Page 52 and 53: Annexes 51 Annex 1 — Common safet
Page 54 and 55: CSI data tables Figures with a gree
Page 56 and 57: Table 3A — 2006 — Fatalities by
Page 58 and 59: Table 3C — 2008 — Fatalities by
Page 60 and 61: Table 4A — 2006 — Serious injur
Page 62 and 63: Table 4C — 2008 — Serious injur
Page 64 and 65: Table 5 — Total and relative no o
Page 66 and 67: Table 7 — Number of precursors to
Page 68 and 69: Table 10 — Technical safety of in
Page 70 and 71: Table Country Year Variable Comment
Page 72 and 73: Annex 2 — List of national safety
Page 74 and 75: Key documents and references Regula

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