A Study on Incident Analysis Method for Railway Safety Management

Abstract

To detect and control the signs of potential accidents for the purpose of preventing vital accidents, it is currently in focus to systematically collect and analyze the information on incidents, which are a pre-stage of accident, and applying countermeasures, in various fields such as airlines and atomic power plants. In the railway field as well, it is one of the subjects at the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission which was newly opened in October 2001. From the standpoint of effective and efficient safety management of railway transport, this paper describes the definition of incidents, method of incident analysis, current situation in various fields, possibility of incident analysis, problems, etc. in railways.