User worked crossings

Date 30 January 2008

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Time

09:00 - Start

Location

The IET, Austin Court, Birmingham, UK

Introduction

User Worked Crossings (UWCs) were identified as the highest risk on the rail network at our successful seminar on Level Crossings in 2007.

This seminar provides railway engineering professionals with the opportunity to explore this important issue in greater depth. As the most common type of crossing, UWCs present the highest danger to railway safety as they rely on the integrity of the individual user, impacting particularly upon the farming community as well as the travelling public at large. Providing a unique opportunity to bring the railway and user representative bodies together the seminar will provide a forum to understand the problems and explore how technology can be appropriately applied to mitigate the risks.

Come and hear a series speakers give a 360 degree view of the issues associated with User Worked Crossings.

Who should attend?

This seminar will be particularly relevant to senior engineers, design engineers, managers, and researchers working in the fields of:

Rail safety assurance and standards
Operations (including freight)
Infrastructure
Engineering consultancy
Technology supply and development
Rail maintenance

This event has now taken place.

Cost

	Standard rate for registration (after 21 December 2007)
Member	£295.00 (+ £51.63 VAT= £346.63)
Non-member	£345.00 (+ £60.38 VAT= £405.38)
Member (Student/retired)	£95.00 (+ £16.63 VAT= £111.63)

Programme

9:00	Registration and refreshments
9:30	Chairman’s introduction and opening remarks Peter Sheppard, Lloyds Register Rail
9:40	Keynote Address Andrew Evans; Lloyd's Register Professor of Transport Risk Management, Imperial College London
10:00	Crossing Owners View Gilbert Fraser, Operations Risk Specialist, Network Rail
10:35	User Worked Crossings in Great Britain - Risk, Research and ... Results Michael Woods, Head of Operations Research, RSSB
11:10	Refreshments
11:30	‘Peaceful Co-existence’ Michael Britten, NFU
12:05	Presentation Adam Meredith, ORR
12:40	Lunch
13:40	Discussion stimulation – ‘It’s Easy to Blame the User’ Felix Schmid and Charles Watson, University of Birmingham
14:00	Discussion general session Panellists: Stan Hall MBE, former Signalling and Safety Officer, British Railways Board, now author, lecturer and consultant Chris Rampley, RHA Plus speakers from the day’s programme
14:30	The Train Operator’s View Steve Pugh, Operations Safety and Standards Manager, Northern Rail Ltd
15:05	Refreshments
15:25	Reducing Cost and Increasing Safety Paul Robertshaw, Level Crossing Engineer and Phil Waddingham, Project Manager, Westinghouse Signals
16:10	Protecting the Train Driver and the Public at the User Worked Crossing Steve Leyland, Technical Director, A1 Micromotive
16:45	Chairman’s closing remarks
17:00	Close of event