Train Crashes in Australia: Safety and Risk Management

STUDENT DETAILS
SAFETY AND RISK
MANAGEMENT

RISK MANAGEMENT 1
Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Overview of Australian train crashes.........................................................................................3
Train crashes due to fault in safety breaches.............................................................................4
Tempe railway station, 9th September 2016..........................................................................4
Change in policy after the incident of a train crash at Tempe Railway Station.........................5
Error controls in Australian railways.........................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Safety risk management formal process which helps an organization to incorporates
the safety system which helps in identifying the hazards, assessing the risk, controlling the
risk and analyzing the measurement of risk (McNeil, Frey & Embrechts, 2015). It is also the
systematic approach to manage the workplace and it helps in providing protection to the
assets of an organization. Furthermore, safety measurements on how to provide insistences to
avoid loss and injuries (Kaewunruen & Remennikov & Murray, 2014). The Australian rail
network has 36.064kms of the track on three major track gauges (infrastructure.au, 2019).
The only small number of railways is governed by the private sector rest all other are govern
either by state or federal or government-owned. In this assignment, there will be a discussion
about the train crashes in the country due to a breach of safety parameters. Selected case in
this study is of Tempe Railway station happened on 9th September 2016. In this train accident
20 people were killed and around 68 people were majorly injured. On this date, passenger
train was crashed with the freight carriage (BBC, 2017).

RISK MANAGEMENT 3
Overview of Australian train crashes
The railways of New South Wales (NSW), Australia had faced many incidents and
accidents since 1831. There are many case studies are available which are describing the brief
incident of rail accidents (infrastructure.au, 2019). June 5, 2007 around 11 people were killed
when a semitrailer crashed into v/line passengers train near Kerang in northern Victoria. On
April 28, 2006 two people killed when the train and mini truck crashed with each other near
Beaufort in Western Victoria (Martin, 2019). Cardiff, at approximately 5:00 on April 4,
2016, a Pacific National freight educate with 3 NR classes, stuck with at Cardiff from the
failure of bolts securing an oil clear out tank allowed the oil to escape and this escaping oil
came in contact with warm engine components (BBC, 2017). A passing passenger
immediately contacts the relevant authorities and they immediately took action over it. The
fireplace was extinguished at the least 3 hours after it was first reported. Apart from this in
the year 2010 at Exeter on 24th January, train designated 2224 was traveling on its route from
Medway Junction to Berriman Junction. Suddenly, the last bogie of the train was derailed
(Martin, 2019).
There are many such issues and counting which are happened only because of the
fault in the safety parameters (Sodhi, Son & Tang, 2012). Railways are an important source
of transportation in the nation, thousands of people travel through this medium. It is the
responsibility of the undertaking to take effective measures to avoid such kind of train
crashes and other incidents (McNeil, Frey & Embrechts, 2015). Australian Transport Safety
Bureau (ATSB) provides assistance to all transportation medium in Australia for conducting
security operations. ATSB also make sure that all the guidelines of the Transport Safety
Investigation Act, 2003 (TSI Act) are followed throughout (Murray & Kaewunruen, 2012).