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Profiling the Railway Industry in SA. Letsane Rathaba RSR Inspector IRSC 2008 DENVER, COLORADO. USA. OVERVIEW. INTRODUCTION THE RSR THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY IN SA THE RISK PERCEPTION MODEL DETERMINISTIC RISK MODEL CONCLUSION. THE RSR (1). NATIONAL RAILWAY SAFETY REGULATOR ACT (2002)
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Profiling the Railway Industry in SA LetsaneRathaba RSR Inspector IRSC 2008 DENVER, COLORADO. USA.
OVERVIEW • INTRODUCTION • THE RSR • THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY IN SA • THE RISK PERCEPTION MODEL • DETERMINISTIC RISK MODEL • CONCLUSION
THE RSR (1) • NATIONAL RAILWAY SAFETY REGULATOR ACT (2002) • PURPOSE • Promote safe railway operations • Collaboration and participation • Operators are responsible and accountable for safety • Harmonisation in SADC • Establish a regulatory regime
Board Internal Audit CEO Legal advisor/ Board Secretary Strat & Econ. Planning Regulation Assurance Support Finance THE RSR (2)
THE RSR (3) • A brief history • Operational since late 2005 • Inspectorate appointed 2006 • Enforcement since 2006 • 12 Engineers, 2 Offices • Funding
SA RAIL INDUSTRY • Transnet Freight Rail • Total Network (22 241 km – DC, AC, Non-electric) • Coal Export line (67 mt) • Iron ore line (30 mt) • General Freight Business (84 mt) • SA Rail Commuter Corporation (Metrorail) • OTHER
RISK PERCEPTION MODEL cont … • Economic Sector risk perception • H - Tourism - severity, occurrence history • H - Petrochemicals - severity • H - Class I operators • M - Municipalities, Ports, Mining, Manufacturing, • L - Sidings and terminals and Agricultural • E.g. High risk (passenger, dangerous goods, NTS) • Used to prioritize activities
THE RISK PERCEPTION MODEL • Absence of objective data • Risk Based Approach • Risk profile to appraise industry risk levels • Main factors • Commodity transported (passenger, dangerous goods, freight) • Operator category (Station, Network, Train) • Volume of goods • Nature and complexity of operations • Occurrence Probability • Occurrence Severity
SHORTCOMINGS OF RPM • Subjectivity (perception) • Non-use of operational data • Does not take into account occurrence record • Does not take into account compliance record
DETERMINISTIC RISK MODEL (DRM) (Dr Chris Dutton) • Improvement on the RPM • A more objective methodology • Take into account both potential and reality risk of each operator • Potential Risk based on Nature of Business • Category within each factor • Occurrence risk (prob+severity) within each category • Weightings of each category
POTENTIAL RISK • NOBFI (nature of business factor impact, high, medium, low and very low) • OSI (occurrence severity impact) • OPI (occurrence probability impact inferred from the frequency of occurrence)
REALITY RISK • Based on actual operator performance • Incident record • Number of occurrences per annum • Severity of previous occurrences • Compliance record • Submission requirements • Responsiveness to directives • Performance against directives
CONCLUSION • Data capturing • Lots of potential!