GB mainline railway
GB mainline railway
Mainline railway has the meaning given to it in the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems(Safety) Regulations 2006 (as amended) and the associated exclusions. GB Mainline Railway is the mainline railway network excluding any railway in Northern Ireland, the Channel Tunnel, the dedicated high-speed railway between London St Pancras International Station and the Channel Tunnel, and any other exclusions determined by the member state.
Infrastructure manager
Any ‘body’ or firm responsible in particular for establishing, managing and maintaining railway infrastructure, including traffic management and control-command and signalling; the functions of the infrastructure manager on a network or part of a network may be allocated to different bodies or firms. Source: Article 3(2) of Directive 2012/34/EU.
Railway undertaking
Any private or public undertaking the principal business of which is to provide rail transport services for goods and/or passengers, with a requirement that the undertaking must ensure traction; this also includes undertakings which provide traction only. Source: Article 3 (a) of Directive 2004/49/EC.
Fatalities and Weighted Injuries 1995
The aggregate amount of safety harm
One FWI is equivalent to:
- one fatality, or
- 10 major injuries, or
- 200 Class 1 minor injuries, or
- 200 Class 1 shock/trauma events, or
- 1,000 Class 2 minor injuries, or
- 1,000 Class 2 shock/trauma events.
Fatality
Death within one year of the causal accident, this includes subsequent death from the causes of a railway accident.
Major
An injury to any person as defined in schedule 1 of RIDDOR 1995, or where the injury resulted in hospital attendance for more than 24 hours.
Minor
Any other physical injury to any person that is neither a fatality nor a major injury.
Minor Class 1
Injuries to passengers, staff or members of the public, which are neither fatalities nor major injuries, and:
- for passengers or public, result in the injured person being taken to hospital from the scene of the accident (as defined as reportable in RIDDOR 1995 amended April 2012).
- for workforce, result in the injured person being incapacitated for their normal duties for more than three consecutive calendar days, not including the day of the injury.
Minor Class 2
All other physical injuries.
Shock / trauma
Shock or traumatic stress affecting any person who has been involved in, or has been a witness to, an event, and not suffered any physical injury.
Shock / trauma Class 1
Shock or traumatic stress affecting any person who has been involved in, or has been a witness to, an event, and not suffered any physical injury.
Class 1 Shock/trauma events relate to witnessing a fatality incident or train accident (collisions, derailments and fires).
Shock / trauma Class 2
Shock or traumatic stress affecting any person who has been involved in, or has been a witness to, an event, and not suffered any physical injury.
Class 2 Shock/trauma events relate to all other causes of shock/trauma such as verbal assaults, witnessing physical assaults, witnessing non-fatality incidents and near misses.
Fatalities and Weighted Injuries 2013
The aggregate amount of safety harm
One FWI is equivalent to:
- one fatality, or
- 8 specified, or
- 40 severe hospital, or
- 100 severe 7, or
- 100 shock / trauma 7, or
- 1,000 non-severe, or
- 1,000 shock / trauma events.
Fatality
Death within one year of the causal accident, this includes subsequent death from the causes of a railway accident.
Specified
Workforce Specified Injuries (RIDDOR 2013)
An accident arising out of or in connection with work, involving a person (on-duty) at work suffering any of the following specified injuries:
(a) any bone fracture diagnosed by a registered medical practitioner, other than to
a finger, thumb or toe;
(b) amputation of an arm, hand, finger, thumb, leg, foot or toe;
(c) any injury diagnosed by a registered medical practitioner as being likely to
cause permanent blinding or reduction in sight in one or both eyes;
(d) any crush injury to the head or torso causing damage to the brain or internal
organs in the chest or abdomen;
(e) any burn injury (including scalding) which:
(i) covers more than 10% of the whole body’s total surface area; or
(ii) causes significant damage to the eyes, respiratory system or other vital
organs;
(f) any degree of scalping (separation of skin from the head) requiring hospital
treatment;
(g) loss of consciousness caused by head injury or asphyxia; or
(h) any other injury arising from working in an enclosed space which:
(i) leads to hypothermia or heat-induced illness; or
(ii) requires resuscitation or admittance to hospital for more than 24 hours.
Severe H (Hospital)
Severe Direct to hospital injury
An injury to any non-workforce (or workforce off-duty) which occurs on or in connection with the transport system, resulting in that person being taken from the site of the accident to a hospital for treatment, in respect of that injury.
Severe 7
Greater 7-day lost time due to injury.
Injuries to workforce, which are neither fatalities nor Specified injuries, and result in the injured person being incapacitated due to that injury for their normal duties for more than seven consecutive calendar days, not including the day of the injury.
Non-severe
All other workforce and non-workforce physical injuries which are neither fatalities, nor severe injuries.
Shock / trauma 7
Greater-than-7-day lost time shock trauma
Any shock/trauma that results in workforce being incapacitated due to shock for their normal duties for more than seven consecutive calendar days, not including the day of the incident.
Shock / trauma
Any shock or traumatic stress affecting any workforce (excl. shock/trauma 7) and all non-workforce who have been involved in, or have been witness to, an event, and not suffered any physical injury.
RIDDOR (The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations)
RIDDOR refers to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, a set of health and safety regulations that mandate the reporting of, inter alia, work-related accidents. These regulations were first published in 1985, and have been amended and updated several times. In 2012, there was an amendment to the RIDDOR 1995 criteria for RIDDOR-reportable workforce minor injuries from three days to seven days. For the purposes of the industry’s safety performance analysis, the more-than-three-days criterion has been maintained, and the category termed Class 1 minor injury. In the latest version of RIDDOR, published 2013, the term ‘major injury’ was dropped; the regulation now uses the term ‘specified injuries’ to refer to a slightly different scope of injuries than those that were classed as major. Again, for consistency in industry safety performance analysis, the term major injury has been maintained, along with the associated definition from RIDDOR 1995.
RIDDOR reportable
Any injury or occurrence that meets the RIDDOR reporting requirements set out in the latest version of RIDDOR, published 2013.
Safety Management Intelligence System (SMIS)
SMIS
A national database used by railway undertakings and infrastructure managers to record any safety-related events that occur on the railway. SMIS data is accessible to all of the companies who use the system, so that it may be used to analyse risk, predict trends and focus action on major areas of safety concern. The system went live on 6 March 2017, replacing the Safety Management Information System.
SMIS Application Matrix
A document that identifies areas of expected and optional reporting scope, based on an organisation’s SMIS reporting role.
SMIS event
An event that has been reported into SMIS. The event report may comprise one or multiple sub-event reporting forms.
SMIS event owner
The SMIS Organisation that has overall responsibility for the entry and quality of the SMIS Event.
SMIS organisation
Organisations that have been granted access to SMIS, which could include RSSB members who have Safety Authorisations & Safety Certificates.
SMIS sub-event reporting form
There are multiple sub-event reporting forms, each representing the types of incidents experienced across the rail industry. There are also reporting forms for Investigations and Recommendations. Each reporting form contains questions and answers relevant to the sub-event.
SMIS user
A member of a SMIS organisation with a defined role, or roles, in relation to SMIS. User roles include Local Organisational Administrator, Safety Team/Data Inputter, Viewer/Browser and Data Analyst.
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