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2010 Hong Kong Conference

 

Monday, October 4th 2010

  • Sustainable Railway Development and Safety in Hong Kong (Presentation)
    HC Chan; Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, HKSAR

  • Corporate Crisis Management System for a modern Railway (Presentation)
    George Lee; MTR Corporation, Hong Kong

  • The Practical Safety Management for Chinese CBTC Development  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Tao Tang; Beijing Jiaotong University, China

  • How Safe are our Railway Projects?  (Presentation)
    TC Chew; MTR Corporation, Hong Kong

  • Dealing with the Media after a Major Accident  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Ian Naish; Naish Transportation Consulting Inc, Canada

  • Lessons from the Nabeta Railroad Crossing Accident Investigation  (Presentation)
    Yasuhiro Kimura; East Japan Railway Workers' Union, Japan

  • GB Experience with learning from accidents and other operational experience – looking forward  (Presentation)
    Anson Jack; RSSB, UK

  • Modeling and Assessing of Train-Person Collision Accidents on the National Railway of South Korea  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Chan Woo Park; Korea Railroad Research Institute, Korea

  • Human Factor in Challenging Financial Times – An Australian Perspective  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    David Edwards; Australasian Transport Risk Solutions (ATRS) PTY LTD, Australia

  • A National Approach to Managing Safety Performance – An Australian Perspective  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Kevin Taylor; Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board (RISSB), Australia

  • Placing Blame on the Driver Alone Will Not Lead to a Culture of Safety  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Yuki Izumi; East Japan Railway Workers' Union, Japan

  • Improving railway safety Global metro railways' precursor and safety maturity performance  (Presentation)
    Miltiadis A. Kyriakidis; Imperial College, UK

Tuesday, October 5th 2010

  • Challenges in sustaining rail safety: learning lessons from others  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Alan Ross; A&K Ross Associations Pty Ltd, Australia

  • The risk of derailment and collision, and safety systems to prevent the risk  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Tomohisa Nakamura; East Japan Railway Company, Japan

  • The ORR railway management maturity model and its use in benchmarking safety and securing continued improvement  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Iain Ferguson; Office of Rail Regulation, UK

  • A Report on the Switching Operations Fatality Analysis Program  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Michael Martino; Association of American Railroads, USA

  • A Railway Regulatory Regime- The Hong Kong Perspective  (Presentation)
    Albert Tse; Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, HKSAR

  • Application of Safety on Saudi Arabia Project CTW300  (Presentation)
    Rob Boulger; Laing O' Rourke, Australia

  • Who should investigate railway incidents?  (Presentation)
    Stephen Watson; Arthur D. Little Limited.

  • Inadequate personal safety and security is the greater threat to public confidence  (Presentation)
    Aidan_Nelson; Community Safety Partnerships Ltd, UK

  • Electrical Safety programme, a way to influence human behavior for safer working methods  (Presentation)
    Anna Nicodemi; Swedish Transport Administration, Sweden

  • Human Error Assessment in the Design of New Signalling Control Centres  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Harry Blanchard; Lloyd's Register Ltd, UK

  • Understanding Older Passengers' Safety Behaviours  (Presentation)
    Siu Oi Ling; Lingnan University, Hong Kong

  • The assessment of behavioral/ non-technical skills in the risk based FirstGroup competence management system  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Ray Metcalfe; Metcalfe Rail Safety, UK

  • Where is the SMS heading-a companywide approach continuous improvement  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Bart Accou; European Railway Agency, Belgium

  • Research on Organization-level Safety Assurance System  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Lei Chen; Beijing National Railway Research and Design Institute of Signal and Communication, China

  • Good Practice Approach to Risk and Safety Management of Major Rail System Projects  (Presentation)
    Anthony Pickett; Union Railway, UAE

  • Quantitative Techniques in Safety Management  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Somnath Pal; Indian Railways, India

Wednesday, October 6th 2010

  • UIC activities in the field of Human Factors  (Presentation)
    Peter Gerhardt; International Union Railways, France

  • Integration of passenger behavior studies into the design of West Kowloon Terminus  (Presentation)
    Karen Priestley; Lloyd's Register Rail (Asia) Limited, Hong Kong

  • Learning from disasters: Improving health and safety culture and competence  (Presentation)
    David Morris; NEBOSH, UK

  • The effects of the ERTMS introduction on the Hungarian railway workers  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Istvan Gasko; VDSZSZ-Free Trade Union of Railway Workers, Hungary

  • Independent Safety Assurance for Fast Developing Railways in China  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Simon Zhang; Lloyd's Register Rail (Asia) Limited, Hong Kong

  • Safety System for Track Maintenance Vehicle Operation of Shinkansen  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    Atsushi Sasaki; East Japan Railway Company, Japan

  • System Safety and Risk Management The view of a National Safety Autourity  (Presentation)
    Ralf Schweinsberg; Federal Railway Authority, Germany

  • Learning lessons from accidents and incidents  (Presentation)
    Michel Aymeric; EPSF, France

  • A Summary of the RAIU Investigation Report into the Collapse of Malahide Viaduct on the 21st August 2009  (Presentation)  (Paper)
    David Murton & Jill Cregan; Railway Accident Investigation Unit, Ireland

 

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