Key Safety Recommendations of Accident Enquiries
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Key Safety Recommendations of Accident Enquiries
| S.No. | Recommendations |
|---|---|
| 01 | Standardization of G&SR (General & subsidiary rules) Subsidiary rules (SR) framed by respective Zonal Railways(ZR) and few rules are found varying across various ZRs for similar situations/conditions whereas the train crew operate train in more than one ZR. Different rules for same situations lead to misinterpretation and misunderstanding. Ministry of Railway should take up standardization of G& SR to the extant feasible. |
| 02 | Non-isolated Shunting and simultaneous reception (GR 3.47 & 5.16) The recent changes in the provisions of GR 5.16, and GR 3.47 allows non-isolated shunting and non-isolated simultaneous movements ahead of a train being received on a main line. Commission has raised this issue and ED level committee is formed by Railway board to review it |
| 03 | Provision of fog safe device: On commission’s recommendation, Railway Board issued instructions to provide Fog Safe Devices for alerting the Loco Pilots in advance to locate the signal round the year. |
| 04 | B-Scan USFD Machine To test rails and welds, the commission has recommended to use B-Scan (recording type) USFD machines throughout the Indian Railways instead of A-type (non-recording) USFD machines. |
| 05 | Elimination of Non-Standard/ forced Layouts of turnouts: Non-standard and forced layout is one of the probable reasons for the derailment at the turnouts. Further such type of turnouts requires frequent maintenance due to disturbance of track parameters. Railway should eliminate such turnouts on priority in a time bound manner and layouts of such non-standard turnout should be discouraged |
| 06 | Provision of Gantry Signal: This is an important item for safety in train operation. In area where visibility of signal is restricted due to any reason like multiple lines, or less center track distance etc. Based on commission’s recommendations, IR has issued policy and drawing for provision of signals on gantries |