Safety and Risk Management Report

Running Head: MANAGEMENT
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Safety and Risk
Management
Report
Student
9/5/2019

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Executive Summary
Safety and risk management is a major managerial responsibility conducted to protect the
workers and other stakeholders form future uncertainties. Such events cannot be eliminated but
its impacts can be avoided to some extent. Like various other industries, railway sectors have
also adopted the process to take preventive measures. Despite that major collision has happened
in the past, which had caused major disasters and created havoc. Through the report, insights
regarding the accident will be provided and what factors lead to the frightening event will also be
discussed in the report.

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Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................................3
Safety and Risk Management................................................................................................................3
Safety Management Principles..........................................................................................................4
Train accidents.......................................................................................................................................4
Case Study: “2015 Philadelphia train derailment”............................................................................5
Safety Breach.....................................................................................................................................6
Aftermath and changes in policy.......................................................................................................7
Implementation of Action Plan to prevent Human errors and faults which can lead to fatal
accidents..................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................9
Bibliography........................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Today safety has become the highest priority for the organizations and timely monitoring
the hazards and unforeseen contingencies have become critical for companies to create a safe and
secure environment for the workforce. However, there are certain risks, which can be only
minimized but cannot be eradicated from the system, which can lead to disaster and major
accidents. Such kind accident is observed in rail transport, where in spite of various preventive
measures accident happened (Miller, 2011). In the report, the brief description of the safety and
management has been given, following the precise information regarding the rail accident2015
Philadelphia train derailment” has been provided.
Safety and Risk Management
Safety means a state where the scope of hazards or risk is limited to a particular level. It
is practiced at every level of an organization to protect human resources from adverse events.
Safety management is a commitment made to prevent injuries in the workplace. It is defined as a
structure of determining the degree of risks and preventive measures can be adopted to minimize
those risks (Reportable and recordable, 2013). It is a management function as it identifies the
prevalence of the risk, conduct the timely evaluation of such risk and use preventive measures.
Safety management arises from a sense of leadership. In safety management leadership, the
responsibility has been put over the senior-level managers who determine and direct the
employees. He practices the safety culture through routine checkups and interacting with the
employees, identifying the error and flaws in the system (Bowman, 2015).