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Supervisory and Technical Forum Wednesday 4th October 2017
Westwood Network Rail Training and
Centre, Coventry
Agenda Registration 08.15 - 09.30 Westwood introduction and Safety Brief Video 09.45 - 09.50 Welcome and introduction – Neil Johnson, TSA Chairman 09.50 - 10.00
Looking back and Forward – Steve Featherstone 10.00 - 10.40 Benefits of using ZKL3000 RC – David Underwood 10.40 - 11.00 “Our Commitment to Safety” Back to Basics – Reflection Bill Cooke 11.00 - 11.20 Tea Break 11.20 - 11.30
TSA Work Stream overview 11.30 - 12.20
1. Prep4 Initiatives – Terry Smith 2. Environmental and Sustainability Awareness – Rachael Reilly 3. Ballast Dust – Mark Wright 4. Extraordinary Safety Programme – Saint Maur Miles 5. Fatigue – Bernie Granger and Mark Wright
Work Stream wrap up – Neil Johnson and Bill Cooke 12.20 - 12.30 Lunch (Buffet served outside the auditorium) 12.30 - 13.15 Talking Balls – Andy Heather 13.15 - 13.35 Thank you – Mark Wright 13.35 - 13.40 Body Guard S&C North Cut 5 Gloves – Dave Sowter 13.40 -13.50
Agenda
Agenda
Close Call Champions “We Need You” – Adrian Fricker 13.50 - 14.10
Black Hat Feed Back – Bill Cooke 14.10 -14.30
Questions and Answer session – Open Forum 14.30 - 14.50
Closing comments and thoughts of the day – Neil Johnson, TSA Chairman 14.50 - 15.00
We have various exhibitors available for you to visit during the Day you will find them in situated around the East wing area and Outside Reception
Our Exhibitors
Westwood Safety Video
Welcome and Introduction
Neil Johnson S&C North Alliance Director
TSA Chairman
Welcome to the Track Safety Alliance
“Supervisory and Technical Forum Conference
The theme of todays Conference is
“Back2Basics”
• TSA Refresh
• Update on Revised Work streams
• Current Progress
• Good Practice
• Future Focus
Welcome
Your Role
• Your role and attendance
• Respect for timings and Presenters
• Participation
Steve Featherstone
Programme Director IP Track
What’s on my mind…
4 October 2017
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If you don’t know the answer ask
the guys digging the hole…
They have known the answer for 20 years but no-
one has bothered to ask them!
Safety first…
Looking back…
Swords of Honour
LTIFR above target
Ballast dust – no beards
Back to basics – black
hats
Looking forward…
5* and Swords of
Honour
Re-focus of the TSA
Points run throughs
Reduce Red Zone
working
LTIFR improving
Standards Looking back…
Plant reliability
Higher speed handbacks
CRT management
Taking Over Certificates
Overrun delay minutes
PIAF
Looking forward…
Safe work leaders
Track Environmental
Management Plan – ISO14001
Globe of Honour
Overrun delay minutes
PIAFip
Suppliers
Looking back…
Babcock Plain Line
Colas Plain Line
Carillion Plain Line
S&C North
S&C South
High Output
Route Services
Looking forward…
Reacting to
falling order book
Introducing new
contracts
Our customers
CP6 contracting strategy
CP6 funding released into
CP5
No surprises
Line speed handbacks on
every renewal
People
Looking back…
Volunteering
Award success
IP Track re-org
Looking forward…
Impact of reduced workbanks
Professions launched to give
personal development a real
focus
Volunteering
Your Voice
Continuous improvement
Is CI really embedded?
Can we do more?
Taking Project Jedi to the
Supply Chain
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Difficult times ahead
Change causes distraction
Distraction increases risk of lapses leading to injuries
We are in a time of high safety risk
We need to ask the people digging the hole how we take
safety to the next level
What does this all mean
for Safety?
Steve Featherstone
Programme Director IP Track
Using Technology to Improve Safety within High Output:
Safe & Efficient Access
David M Underwood
Director of Engineering, Design & Improvement
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Introduction
• Network Rail High Output Fleet:
2 Track Relaying Systems (TRS)
5 Ballast Cleaning Systems (BCS)
• Deploy 5 nights/week, with adjacent lines open and typically handing back at 100mph.
• Delivering 70% of plain line linear volume in Great Britain in CP5 (Apr 2014 – Mar 2019).
Blocking the Line:
The Need to Change….
Handbook 8 of the rule book describes the process for taking a Line Blockage:
1. The signaller arranges for a protecting signal to be placed to danger
2. Signaller installs reminder appliance on the panel.
If safety of the line is affected then a form of additional protection is required:
a. Signal disconnection
b. Detonators and Possession Limit Board (PLB)
c. Installation of a Track Circuit Operating Device (TCOD)
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Current Protection Methods for Line Blockages
Problems with the Current Arrangements
• Protection methods require staff to be lineside.
• Complicated and relies on multiple 1 to 1 verbal communications
• Many parties all with different roles and responsibilities
• The method that tends to be the preferred option is PLB’s and detonators. The activity is:
– Potentially hazardous requiring staff to enter the 4’ every time.
– Slow and time consuming utilising valuable working time
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Safety Stats – Operational Close Calls
• RAIL INDUSTRY 2017-18 YTD - 157 operational close call incidents relating to Line blockages.
• Protection incorrectly placed
• Miscommunication between COSS and Signaller
• Miscommunication between COSS and Possession support staff
• Signaller error
The High Output Safe & Efficient
Access Project
Aims of the Safe & Efficient Access Project
• To create a step change improvement in safety by removing staff from the 4 foot when placing and removing protection.
• To reduce the amount of time taken to take and handback blockages of the line (possessions and line blockages)
Network Rail Safety Vision Outstanding safety performance and outstanding business performance go hand in
hand
Line Blockages within High Output
• High Output activities require line blockages of the adjacent line varying from 5-15 minutes per night. – 12 x Line blockages for TRS – 6 x Line blockages for BCS
• All of which affect safety of the line and require a form of additional protection.
The preferred method of additional protection for High Output has been
detonator protection.
Recent Success in High Output
• Introduction of ZKL3000 (RC)
• Sponsored through Product acceptance by High Output
Visits to the 4
foot No. of Phone calls
Average time
taken to place
and remove
protection
Visits to the 4
foot No. of Phone calls
Average time
taken to place
and remove
protection
M 12
24 (2 per line
block)
96 (8 per line
block) 24 minutes 1 (install) 24 4 min
T 12 24 96 24 minutes 0 24 4 min
W 12 24 96 24 minutes 0 24 4 min
T 12 24 96 24 minutes 0 24 4 min
F 12 24 96 24 minutes 1 (remove) 24 4 min
Total 60 120 480 2 hours 2 120 24 mins
Using ZKL3000 (RC) as additional Protection
Day
Line
Blocks
Req
Using PLB and Detonators as additional Protection
WORK
PC / COSS & Workgroup
Protecting Signal
ZK
L
Signaller
WORK
Hand Signaller
PC / COSS & Workgroup
Signaller
Protecting Signal
The difference to TRS since Introducing ZKL
PLB & Detonators ZKL3000 (RC)
The Logic – ZKL Vs Conventional
Protection Type Visits to the 4 foot (for 1 line blockage)
Communication (for 1 line blockage) Time (for 1 line blockage)
PLB & Dets 1 to take 1 to handback 2 total
4 calls to take 4 calls to handback 8 total
2 mins to deploy and remove
ZKL3000 (RC) installed once prior to shift 1 call to take 1 call to handback 2 total
20 seconds to deploy and remove
TRS • 4 foot visits = reduced by 118 (97%) per week • Phone Calls = reduced by 360 (75%) per week • Protection time = reduced by 1 hour 36 mins
per week
BCS • 4 foot visits = reduced by 58 (97%) per week • Phone Calls = reduced by 180 (75%) per week • Protection time = reduced by 48mins (80%) per
week
• Reduced the risk of exposing staff to moving trains when placing / removing protection for line blockages.
• Reduced line blockage visits to the 4 foot by 97% per week per system
• Reduced the amount of phone calls for line blockages by 75% per week per system
• Gained additional 96minutes (TRS) and 48 mins (BCS) per week per system through introduction of ZKL3000 (RC)
Summary
The future for High Output and Network Rail
• Incab Flexible Train Arrival Point (FTAP)
• ZKL3000(RC) mobile app
• ZKL’s installed at fixed locations
• Tamping using ZKL3000 as protection
• High Output Protection Zone
• Personal Warning System (PWS)
• Wireless train warning system (SATWS, ATWS)
• Remote TSR Boards
Thank you
For further information contact: Neil Sunner Project Manager (High Output Improvement) Email: [email protected] Phone:07834147559
Back2Basics “Our Commitment to Safety”
Bill Cooke
Back2Basics (cont’d)
• You might remember why I wanted us to get back to basics……
The important numbers then
• 16 lost time injuries, including 3 broken ankles and wrists, disc cutter and chainsaw cuts
• 60 minor injuries,
• 3 near misses,
• 6 points run throughs
• 30 cable strikes
Many of these events
were late reports
Back2Basics
To stop these accidents we said we need to do a few simple things…… • Remove the hazards that we fall over, down or in
• Comply with all the site rules
• Report unsafe acts and conditions
Make it safe, Keep it Safe That’s really all I ask today,
• Make the sites safe before you start
• Keep the sites safe while you work
• Leave the sites safe when work is complete
So give me any reasons that prevents us doing any of the above?
Tea Break
11.20 – 11.30.
“10 Mins Folks”
Prep4 Initiatives Work Stream
Workstream Lead
Terry Smith Colas Rail
Scope
Joined up and consistent approach to Prep4 Campaigns
Aim
to improve Safety &Sustainable Development (S&SD), through education to reduce accidents and incidents,
with a key focus on Back2Basics.
Prep4 Safety
On site safety is one of our key areas of risk when we look at our incidents and accidents.
We often start a job with inherited hazards and risk, such as: – scrap rail,
– left over materials,
– broken/missing catch pit lids
– Etc., to name but a few;
this can have a significant impact on those working in the site.
This is where Prep4 Safety can help, it’s all about planning and preparation, making sure our sites are clear and ready for our workers before they arrive.
P4S is part of the Grip4Track process its aim is to raise and close out hazards on site before site works start
Current Campaigns
Prep4 Summer
Focussed on specific areas identified as high risk during the summer
• Health & Well Being – Weather and Hydration
• Trespassing – School Holidays
• Driving – More Drivers on Unfamiliar Roads, Traffic Jams
• Site Set Up and Welfare – Water – Increased Fire Risk
• Line side Neighbours – Longer Days, Open Windows, Washing,
Current Campaigns
Current Campaigns Prep4 Winter
Focussed on specific areas identified as high risk during the winter • Welfare –
• Using local accommodation to prevent long journeys
• Planning to allow rotation of work activities and adequate breaks
• Adequate welfare facilities on all sites
• Driving • Driver Competence
• Vehicle Checks
• Low sun/ Sun glare
• Health • Sustenance
• Keeping warm
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) • Keeping visible
• Keeping clean and dry
• Correct PPE
Prep4 Spring
Prep4 Site Set Up
Prep4 Sustainabilty
Prep4 New Standard Change
Prep4 Your Ideas are welcome Speak Up
New Campaigns
Looking out for each other this summer
Slide title
Text and pictures
Sustainability working group
Rachael Riley Carillion Rail
Workstream Lead
Sustainability working group
• Rachael Riley, Professional Head of Sustainability, Carillion rail
• Call to action: members needed to re-establish the working group
• TSA members survey, November, to identify priority areas
– Review outputs to date
– Members’ top issues for collaborative working
• Align with RSSB sustainable development principles and ISLG priority areas
• Knowledge share and coordination with RISF (formally RIEF)
Extraordinary Safety Programme
Saint Maur Miles
S&C North Alliance
Workstream Lead
Extraordinary Safety Programme
What are we trying to achieve?
• Having Safety Leaders at all levels and all staff having accountability for safety.
• Black hat behavioural briefings at the beginning of every shift.
Extraordinary Safety Programme
What needs to be done?
• Improve reporting
• Make challenge comfortable for people
• Accountability at all levels
• Safety has no rank
• Share best practise
Extraordinary Safety Programme
How we will achieve it?
• Supervisor development and support
• Visible safety leadership on site
• Buddying/mentoring
• Accept honest mistakes without reprisals
Extraordinary Safety Programme
How we will deliver it?
• Identify leaders within all levels/teams
• Celebrate success
Ballast Dust Workstream
Mark Wright Network Rail David Butler Network Rail
Workstream Lead
Ballast Dust Work Stream
Work Stream Lead Identify what we are trying to achieve?
Ballast Dust David Butler
To gather a solid data set that highlights a true reflection of the risk to our workers of ballast dust inhalation.
• Challenging conditions of high dust through Close Calls
• Critically reviewed the AECOM report which was commissioned by
SCO
• Part of SCO internal BDWG to help them consider final customer
concerns and opportunities for improvement
• Competence for “face fitter and face fitted” added to Sentinel
• Reviewing possibility of retro fitted suppression systems
• Use of fixed point suppression in blockades
• Completed sampling on IP-Track and High Output activities using
4Rail Services
Ballast Dust Sampling Site Date/ time PC Function Comments
Moreton Cutting Junction,
Didcot20th August Babcock PL Shift cancelled
Osmaston Road, Derby 27th August Amey Sersa S&C North 12 samples obtained
Bristol Parkway 6-7th Sept Colas S&C South 18 samples obtained
Anston, Worksop 10th Sept Carillion PL 15 samples obtained
Dunbar, Scotland 17th Sept Amey Sersa S&C North 12 samples obtained
Old Oak Common 20th Sept Colas S&C South Sampling undertaken - awaiting flash report
Severn Tunnel 23rd Sept Babcock PL Shift cancelled
Severn Tunnel Date TBC Babcock PL Possible future sampling site - rescheduled
What we need from you?
• Challenge non compliance with RPE, its your friends and
colleagues we are trying to protect
• COSS review of Sentinel card for appropriate “face fit
competence”
• Does the worker have the right mask to match the
competence above?
• Continued support with innovation such as the following
JSP Air Fed Trials
The trial of the prototype
JSP fully helmet mounted
Air Fed RPE has been
received well.
We are working with JSP
to make these helmets
which can be supplied in
any colour viable.
Fatigue Workstream
Bernie Grainger Babcock Rail
Mark Wright Network Rail Workstream Leads
Fatigue Work Stream
Work Stream Lead Identify what we are trying to achieve?
Fatigue Bernard Grainger
To increase awareness, knowledge and management of fatigue within the workforce. The improvement plan aims to understand the factors which directly and indirectly affect people’s fatigue and to provide guidance and tools to stakeholders to better control, manage and prevent the risk.
• Change of lead from Mark Wright to Bernie Grainger • Collaborated with the RPCG (RIAG) and ISLG • Developed closer ties with the RSSB to help bring about change across the
industry, this will see links to ORR, TOCs and FOCs • Engaging in new technologies to reduce fatigue when trying to gain information
e.g. RSSB Rule Book App • Advertised use of Fatigue video short on TSA share site • Worked with NR to critically review the pending Fatigue Process • Completed a Survey to gain front line concerns/good practice and knowledge
Fatigue Survey Results
Common trends from 303 surveys:
• 37% advised their average shift excluding travel time is 8 hours, 26% advised theirs was up to 10 hours and 12% advised they were working 12+ hours.
• 22% advised they use energy drinks regularly to combat fatigue.
• 70% advised they know how to report fatigue, however 30% advised they were still unsure.
• 65% advised nothing would stop them reporting fatigue.
• 22% of our staff were advised they were working their shift within the last 24 hours, 12% within the last week and 10% 2 weeks prior to their shift.
• 41% advised they way we could improve fatigue is by: better planning, local work, regular/mandated breaks, advanced notice of shifts and driver rest periods. 12% advised that designated drivers would help reduce fatigue.
A few things you said we could do to improve fatigue
What we need from you?
• Challenge non compliance with arrangements supplied for pre/post shift hotels etc.
• Use your team mentality to challenge each other, you know each other better than anyone and should feel comfortable in challenging one another
• Close Call “Fatigue” in all its forms, e.g. home/work life balance, mental or physical capability
• Continued support with innovation and work streams
Work Stream wrap up
Neil Johnson and Bill Cooke
Buffet style Lunch served outside
the auditorium 12.3O – 13.15
Andy Heather
“Talking Balls”
Who are we? Why are we here?
• We are Andy and Graham.
• We are from the charity It’s in the Bag.
• We are here to talk about Testicular Cancer.
• We are both glad to be here in more than ways than one, as we have both had Testicular Cancer and survived.
Our Story’s
Testicular Cancer
• Testicular cancer is a relatively rare disease
• Around 2,400 cases diagnosed in the UK each year
• Out of every 100 cancers diagnosed in men, only 1 or 2 are testicular cancer
• Accounts for approximately 0.7% of all cancers
• Around 70 people die every year from testicular cancer
Testicular Cancer • Different from many other types of cancer
• Most cancers tend to affect older people, where as testicular cancer is more common in young and middle-aged men
• Most common cancer of men aged 15-49 in the UK
• Rates of testicular cancer peak in the 25-34 age group
Testicular Cancer
• Cancer of the testicles is also one of the most treatable forms of cancer
Testicular Cancer Symptoms
A LUMP (WHICH
MIGHT BE
PAINLESS)
INCREASED
SIZE
HARDNESS
PAIN OR
HEAVINESS IN
THE BALL SACK
Testicular Cancer Symptoms • Discomfort or pain; dull ache in the
affected testicle or in the lower abdomen
• Symptoms that the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes; back pain
• Symptoms that the cancer has spread to other parts of the body; cough, short of breath, difficulty swallowing
• Hormones in the blood; Tumour markers, AFP, HCG, LDH
How to self examine • Get to know your
balls
• Once a month check for any changes
• After a bath or shower
• Rest balls in hand
• Gently roll each one between thumb & finger
• Avoid doing it in public!
What to do if something is not quite right
• Don’t panic!
• Do not stew over it
• Go straight to your GP
Remember: 9 out of 10 ball problems are
not testicular cancer. Your symptoms are
likely caused by something much less
serious. But because early diagnosis of
TC means better cure rates and more
straightforward treatment, you should get
yourself to the doctor ASAP.
Risk Factors
• More common in white men than African-Caribbean or Asian men
• Being taller than average increases the risk
• Undescended testicle(s) as a baby
• Hyperspadia as a baby
• Low Fertility
• Previous testicular cancer
Myth Busters
• Can’t be caused by knocks or injuries to the balls (but any lump or swelling
after an injury should be checked by your GP)
• Vasectomy does not increase chances
• Testicular Cancer is not infectious and cannot be passed on to other people
Our Campaigns
What we want you to do
• It’s quite simple……
• Keep checking every month
• ANY worries see your GP
• Don’t put it off!
• Take the pledge
The Pledge Join the winning team in the battle against testicular cancer! A few minutes once a month to check your balls out – that’s all it takes. Thinking it’s a good idea is one thing, remembering to get round to it is another. But we’re here to help. Pledge to check your balls today, and we’ll send you a free reminder every month via your preferred method, so you can make sure you get it done. Sign up now at http://itsinthebag.org.uk/ball-checking/pledge-to-check/
Useful Resources
• www.nhs.uk
• www.cancerresearchuk.org
• www.macmillan.org.uk
Thank you for listening
Dave Sowter S&C North
Working with Bodyguard Cut 5 Gloves
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CLOSE CALL CHAMPIONS
Our senior leaders have each made a personal commitment to fully supporting anyone who reports a Close
Call
We need to hear from all Close Call Champions
Key contacts needed
for all Close Call
Champion companies
Please send all names and contact details to
P
Are you a Close Call Champion?
Do you know your Close Call Champion?
Have you recently attended any TSA CCC
training?
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Marketing and Communications - Social Media
Adrian Fricker
TSA Social Media
@TSA_NWR
917 Facebook Followers
Track Safety Alliance - TSA
@tracksafetyalliance
Social Media Plan Q4
• 2-3 TSA targeted and relevant posts a week
• Sharing of industry and member news
• Interactive posts
– Q&A
– Surveys
– Videos
Recent Social Media
Black Hat Feedback Bill Cooke
Questions and Answer session
Open forum
Closing Comments and thoughts on the day!
Neil Johnson
TSA Chairman
