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Rail Facilities Safety Diagnosis and Result Evaluation

Rail Facilities Safety Diagnosis

To conduct a safety diagnosis of the rail system design in 18 fields such as technical standards of rail facilities from the perspective of users and 396 diagnosis items and to eliminate the risk factors identified from the diagnosis before starting the construction of rail facilities to ensure the safety and convenience of users

Subject

Rail track/facilities construction with total distance of more than 1 km including 1 or more station(s)

Major tasks

  • Diagnosis of turnkey projects commissioned to a private constructor encompassing all processes such as design and construction
  • Diagnosis on general projects, separating design and construction
  • Performance management and operation of information system on the safety diagnosis of the entire rail system
  • Establishing and implementing training on rail system safety diagnosis

Diagnosis procedure

  1. Selecting and contracting the party to conduct diagnosis
    • Requesting outsourcing to the traffic safety diagnosis organization

    Ordering organization

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  2. Providing base materials and data
    • Providing design documents, project report, etc,

    Ordering organization Next TS or other safety diagnosis organization

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  3. Holding the kick-off meeting
    • Discussing the diagnosis plan

    Ordering organization, Designer, TS or other safety diagnosis organization

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  4. Reviewing the design documents
    • Based on checklist, diagram, and related materials

      ※ Conduct on-site inspection as needed

    TS or other safety diagnosis organization

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  5. Prepare the diagnosis report
    • Identify rail safety defects or recommended improvements

    TS or other safety diagnosis organization

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  6. Hold the closing meeting
    • Discussion on diagnosis results

    Ordering organization, Designer, TS or other safety diagnosis organization

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  7. Decision on diagnosis results
    • Change of design as needed
    • No change of design unless needed

    Ordering organization

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  8. Closure
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  9. Submit the diagnosis results
     

    Ordering organization Traffic administration organization