Development of Experiential Safety Education Program to Promote Compliance with “Double Check Rule of Train Schedule Diagram” in Railway Maintenance Work

Abstract

We developed a safety education program consisting of three experiential education subprograms, “Confirmation of Rules”, “Human Error Experience” and “Role Play Experience”, aiming at deterring violation of “double check rule of train schedule diagram” in railway maintenance work and promoting compliance with the rule. In this program, after the employees are educated about “Confirming the Rule”, they are educated the reasons of the rule with “Human Error Experience” and “Role Play Experience”, to improve the rule compliance attitude. Twenty-four site managers became the lecturers at their own workplaces and tried the program with 263 on-site employees as the students. As a result, 95.8％ of the lecturers and 88.2％ of the students made positive evaluation of the significance of the entire program. After the program was implemented, the rule compliance attitude of the students was significantly improved at 1％ level. In addition, the sense of burden imposed on the site managers in charge of the lecturer was within the operational permissible range. From these results, it was confirmed that the developed safety education program is effective for deterring violation of the rule and can be adopted at each work place.