ARC has extensive experience in risk management and safety assurance within the Rail industry. Many of our consultants have chartered status and are respected members of professional organisations. ARC has supported rail projects in UK, on mainland Europe and Australasia.
ARC has undertaken work for Hitachi, London Underground, Lloyd’s Register Rail, Siemens, Alstom, ProRail (Netherlands), RailCorp (Australia), ONTRACK (New Zealand) and Docklands Light Railway.
Services
ARC has the capability to undertake projects involving a number of elements of risk management including :
HAZID, HAZOP, HAZAN studies
Development of Hazard Logs and Risk Registers
Assessment of Safety, Environmental and Business risks
Development of FTA, ETA, and FMECA
Use of CFD modelling to support risk assessments
Human Factors
Track Engineering
ARC is unique in that it is able to offer the full range of quantitative and qualitative tools and techniques to assess risk.
ARC has the capability to support all aspects of safety assurance and has experience in:
Development of Safety Cases for a variety of railway systems
Independent Verification and Validation
Production of Safety Requirements
Derivation of Safety Integrity Levels
Delivering in line with International standards such as IEC61508, EN50126, EN50128 and EN50129
ARC aims to provide the right service to support safety assurance through its young, flexible and responsive team that focuses on high quality and its ability to meet short deadlines.
Specific Track Engineering support is provided in
Track Horizontal and Vertical Designs:
Independent Design check and provision of written critique
CWR stressing [Plain Line & S&C track]:
Provision of Outline stressing diagrams
Provision of Detailed stressing diagrams
Independent check of stressing diagrams and provision of written critique
Existing CWR re-stressing requirements after design lift / slues combination
A1 Assessor
Competence Management Systems (development, implementation, competence assessment)
Projects
Project: Project Risk Analysis for new train station
Client: ProRail
A project risk analysis was carried out for the construction of Bijlmer, a completely new railway station in Amsterdam. Planning, financial and quality issues were identified and then evaluated using systematic risk analysis focussing on political, geographical, economical and legal issues. This resulted in the production of a risk register and recommendations for improvement.
Project: Strategic Risk Management
Client: Tubelines
Complex and high profile project undertaking the management of client's risk management organisation as it underwent a period of huge organisational change which led to its transfer to the Private Sector via a PPP contract.
Responsible for gaining buy in to the risk management process; management of the risk register; facilitation of the development of risk mitigation plans, migration of the existing risk register to new risk management software system (ARM); merging of Tube Lines risk register and methodology with the existing JNP risk register and methodology. Also undertook significant change management of the risk management function and operated throughout the Company from Chairman, Chief Executive and Director level to individual risk owners.
Project: Independent Verification
Client: RailCorp, Sydney.
External risk assessments undertaken for all types of rail projects in Sydney are independently verified by our consultants to ensure that they satisfy the correct processes but also that recommendations made are pragmatic, risk based and achievable
Additionally ARC has consultants with railway project experience including:
Railtrack WCML project to analyse operational delays with specific emphasis on causes related to human factors
Providing the Human Factors input to London Underground Safety Case for submission to the HMRI – particularly in considering the ergonomic issues for the control centres.
Application of novel train detection systems on the WCML and the impact that railway signallers and lineside workers have when restoring normal rail operations.
Analysis of Engineering Authorities for RailCorp in Sydney and provision of a strategy to resolve deficiencies identified.
Management of National Incident Records for a Rolling Stock manufacturer in the UK
Contact
For information relating to ARC’s capabilities on Rail please contact Gareth Topham in our Edinburgh office or by e-mail.
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