Safety and Risk Management Report 2022

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Safety and Risk
Management
REPORT
Student
8/28/2019

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Executive Summary
Safety and risk management is of the major responsibility, which is practiced by the
companies at every level to analyse the risk, weakness, and loopholes in the operation.
However, when such factors are ignored it might lead to major accidents and safety breaches.
Like in other industries, it is also essential in Railways where there is a high occurrence of
dangerous accidents. In the report, a brief description of the train accidents has been discussed,
flowing the factors, which has led to such disasters as well as measures taken by the government.
In this report, the discussion over the “Richmond Train Crash” has been conducted. Through the
medium of this report, readers can analyse the multiple factors which had led to such blunder
and what are the preventive measures taken by the government t to avoid the occurrence of such
major accidents.

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Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................................2
Incident: Richmond Train Crash...........................................................................................................3
Safety Breach.........................................................................................................................................4
The aftermath of the incident.................................................................................................................5
Policy and Implementation....................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................7
Bibliography..........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Today, practicing the method of safety and risk management in the workplace has
become critical for organizations to assist them to identify the unforeseen contingencies, which
are creating a negative impact on its operations and stability. Safety and Risk management can
be defined as a process of ascertaining the threats, measuring the hazards, evaluating and
monitoring that risk. (Miller, 2011) To become stable and maintain the market position, many
companies are providing special training to their workforce to eliminate the hazard and prevent
unwanted accidents, which can affect the system. It prepares them for uncertainties and dynamic
environment. Besides this National Safety Management Society has also stated that safety
management is a core element of managerial responsibilities as it highlights the degree of
commitment of the company towards employees. For the efficient and productive practices of
SRM, the company follows various principles (Bowman, 2015). It provides an action-plan to the
Company so that it can analyze the risk monitor the shortcomings of the management, which can
develop into major accidents and safety breach. A safety breach means misusing the powers to
conduct an unlawful act (Hopkins , 2009).
Like various other industry, the Rail transportation industry has adopted safety and risk
management technique to avoid the major accident and injuries in the operation, which is not
only hazardous to the passenger but also the company. Despite that mishap and collision happens
which are gruesome enough to claim the life of the passengers and railways operator (Australian
Tranport Safety Bureau, 2014). Such a safety breach can be occurred due to technical issues in
the system and because of negligence on the part of workers. Train operator inattentiveness, an
accident with other train n train derailment creates alarming situations, whose avoidance has