Recommendation Status Report: Member of staff struck by a train at St Philips Marsh depot, Bristol
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recommendation.
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Recommendation Status Report
Report Title Member of staff struck by a train at St Philips Marsh depot, Bristol
Report Number 08/2024
Date of Incident 26/09/2023
Rec No. Status RAIB Concern Recommendation RAIB Summary of current status
08/2024/01 Awaiting Response None The intent of this recommendation is to reduce the risk of staff at Great
Western Railway, who hold a personal track safety competency, from
being struck by a train when working and walking in its depots.
Great Western Railway should review the training and assessment it
provides for shunters and other staff from its engineering function for
gaining or recertifying their personal track safety competency, to ensure
that these staff receive an appropriate level of information and
assessment about working and walking on depots. This review should
specifically consider the training and assessment already provided to
Great Western Railway staff working in its operations function who hold
personal track safety competency (paragraphs 132a and 132a.iv).
This recommendation may also apply to other duty holders who are
responsible for shunters working in depots, yards and sidings.
08/2024/02 Awaiting Response None The intent of this recommendation is to manage the risk of staff being
struck by a train when using authorised walking routes and walkways on
depots.
Great Western Railway should review the authorised walking routes and
walkways on all its depots where staff that hold a personal track safety
competency can walk, and identify the places where staff using such
walking routes or walkways might be required to walk foul of a train’s
path. Using the results of this review, Great Western Railway should:
a. assess the risk to staff who might walk in these areas, with specific
reference to the hazard of being struck by a train
b. understand the factors that might affect the level of risk in these
locations, for example, where there is limited clearance or where the
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Recommendation Status Report
types of rolling stock that use the depot have differing fields of view from
the driving position
c. identify what controls can be put in place to reduce this risk to a level
that is as low as is reasonably practicable
d. implement the identified control measures, including appropriate
briefing or training to the staff affected (paragraphs 132a.ii, 132a.iii, 132c
and 133a).
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