Rail Safety & Risk Assessment 2009

When: 4-5 June 2009
Where: Marriott Hotel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rail Safety and Risk Assessment 2009 brought together Europe’s leading figures from the rail sector to share experience and opinion of the current and future state of the rail networks. This two day conference provided insights into the latest regulations, projects, initiatives and challenges facing Europe’s networks. The programme promoted open discussion with parallel workshops specifically tailored to track safety and rolling stock as well as plenary sessions which included presentations from the most pre-eminent individuals in the field.

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Exhibitors

DeltaRail

For over 75 years, DeltaRail Netherlands has provided integrated, independent and fact-based tailored consultancy to our customers throughout the railway sector. From concept to realisation, we apply our practical knowledge and skills to their business and operational issues. DeltaRail’s services involve rolling stock, railway infrastructure, the interaction between wheel and rail, operations and railway-related legislation and regulations. We offer business consultancy with technical and operational content. We take a practical approach where possible and a fundamental one where necessary. We are proactively involved with our customers and handle their concerns. DeltaRail, an inventive company with a unique service offering, including consultancy, hardware and software for the railway market.

In the specialists field of Safety and Risk Assessments, DeltaRail Netherlands acts as an independent and expert consultant for her clients offering a unique combination of expertises:

• DeltaRail is a private owned company and therefore acts independently from carriers, infrastructure managers, maintenance plants, engineering offices and authorities.
• DeltaRail is recognised at European level as a Notified Body (NoBo) for all subsystems.
• DeltaRail is appointed by the authorities as an approved code inspector, as stated in the Railway Act.
• As Independent Safety Assessor (ISA) DeltaRail is appointed by the Dutch Accreditation Council for inspecting and testing rolling stock (ISO/IEC 17020) and infrastructure in the context of national and European regulations.
• DeltaRail is appointed by the Dutch Safety Board (OVV) and The Transport and Water Management Inspectorate (IVW) to investigate railway accidents.

Our customer base includes European, national and regional governments, infrastructure managers and maintainers, operators, financers, rolling stock vendors, maintenance plants and logistical service providers. Parts of DeltaRail Netherlands originate from the Dutch National Railways. We are now part of the DeltaRail Group, which employs over 400 employees and is active in many countries. The office in Utrecht in The Netherlands has 100 employees.

Kuuglar Maag

KUGLER MAAG CIE is an international consulting company for process improvement located near Stuttgart working predominantly in the automotive, transportation, finance and IT industries. Founded by 10 partners in mid 2004, KUGLER MAAG CIE is specialised on systematic and sustainable improvements of the development and engineering processes of software-intensive systems and services. Based on industry standards like CMMI®, SPICE (ISO IS 15504), Automotive SPICE®, Safety (IEC 61508, ISO WD 26262, CENELEC EN 50126, 50128, 50129), ITIL we are realising measurable improvements in budget, quality, and time.

KUGLER MAAG CIE supports VDA in the realisation of Automotive SPICE™ worldwide, is a founding member of iNTACS™ as well as a partner of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), USA, sponsor of SEI-Europe, and member of the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Lero.

SCHWEIZER

The SCHWEIZER ELECTRONIC Group is the market leader in automated warning systems for the safety of persons and equipment on operated rail tracks in Europe. High-security radio and data transmission systems supplement product range and market segments.

The SCHWEIZER ELECTRONIC Group employs over 200 employees in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Great Britain, Italy and Austria.

Competence – Quality – Innovation

Every day our specialists and experts work to make permanent way construction sites and level crossings safer places. High-security remote control and radio data transmission systems, together with interactive diagnostic systems, are used wherever safety and efficiency are important. With our comprehensive expertise and innovative ideas, we come up with future-oriented products and services.

Technical competence in the field of track-side safety, signalling technology and in a combination of safety and radio technology are essential if we are to provide customer-oriented products and services. With four decades of experience and our own assembly department, we know the everyday problems on track construction sites inside out.

SCHWEIZER ELECTRONIC sees quality as an integral concept. Quality goes hand in hand with every order, from the initial contact with the customer through to product delivery and regular maintenance. Having our own production division enables us to guarantee consistently high quality. All operating processes are governed and certified in accordance with ISO 9001 and CENELEC EN 50 126.

Our technical competence and knowledge of market requirements enable us to offer innovative products. Our equipment and systems are based on our own safe technology platform. Together with safety requirements we place great emphasis on conformity with ecological and ergonomic requirements.

Speakers

Anders Lundström

Anders Lundström, 61, holds since April 2005 a post in the European Railway Agency. From 1 January 2007 he is the head of the safety unit.

Starting from September 1999 he was seconded as national expert in the Commission’s DG TREN. He was part of the team developing the second railway package and in particular the draft safety directive, which later became Directive 2004/49/EC.

Anders Lundström has a long career in the railways starting from 1975, when he joined SJ as assistant train driver, followed by various posts in the Railway Inspectorate from 1988 to 1999 and finally working as European policy adviser the years 2003 to 2005 for Banverket, the Swedish infrastructure manager. He holds a Bachelor of Arts diploma, granted at the University of Gothenburg in 1972.

Ali Hessami Ali Hessami, Professor of Systems Assurance, PhD, BSc (Hons), EurIng, CEng, FRSA, FIEE, SMIEEE

Ali is Director of R&D and Innovation at Vega Systems. He is an expert in the systems assurance methodologies and technologies and also has a background in design and development of computer based advanced control systems for critical industrial applications.

He has established an International reputation in the field of system safety assurance and has published many papers and lectured throughout the world. He developed the Seven-Stage risk assessment framework which became the core framework underpinning the Railway Industry Yellow Book now accepted as the Railway’s guide to System Safety Management.

Ali is the current Chairman of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society in the UK & Republic of Ireland, Chairman of European Systems Safety Society (ESSS) and the Principal UK Expert in CENELEC TC9X on Systems Safety Integrity matters. Ali is appointed as a Visiting Professor at Beijing Jiaotong & London City University’s Centre for Risk Management, Reliability & Maintainability and Centre for Systems and Modelling.

Jeroen Van den Tweel

Jeroen Van den Tweel (43) graduated from the Universities of Nijmegen and Canterbury in 1994 with a degree in Law. He joined the railway industry in 1995 and worked at the dutch railway regulator Railned, the high speed train operating company HST-VEM and the infrastructure company Railinfrabeheer which was transformed into the infrastructure manager ProRail in 2003. He has worked for ProRail since then, and was appointed team leader for safety in the Safety Health and Environment department in 2008.

He is also a member of the UIC Occupational Health and Safety Group and chairs a project team under the CEN/TC256 working group on “Railway applications/Track/Safety protection on the track during work”.

Jeroen is married, has three sons (which keep him busy) and in his spare time plays field hockey and runs marathons.

Luc Vansteenkiste

Luc Vansteenkiste is now Managing Director of the department Access to the Network of Infrabel, the Belgian infrastructure manager. The department Access to the Network is in charge with the repartition and attribution of the capacity of the railway infrastructure according to the needs of the railway operators and the determination of the rates, invoicing and perception of the charges for the use of infrastructure. Since June 2007, he took the presidency of RailNeteurope, association of European Infrastructure Managers which aims to enable fast and easy access to the European rail. Since 2007 he’s also managing director Corridor C.

When he began his professional career, he first spent some months in China teaching telecommunication at the University of Peking. In 1993 he became IT Manager at Eurostar where he coordinated the creation of the inventory and distribution systems for ticket sales and check-in. A few years later, he returned to the Eurostar Group as Managing Director, responsible for all the IT, Human resources and finance. In-between, he managed the French and Belgian branch called Systrail and was in charge with the development and the exploitation of the reservation systems for high speed trains (Eurostar and Thalys). In 2000 he returned to Belgium as Managing Director of IT at the Belgian Railways. In 2002 he managed IT as well as the telecommunications department. After the reorganisation of the Belgian railway group into three separate entities, he became a member of the Executive Committee of Infrabel as Managing Director of Access to the Network.

Ralf Schweinsberg

Ralf Schweinsberg holds a degree in law (2nd state exam). He started his professional career in 1985 at Deutsche Bundesbahn, followed by several functions in the departments for road transport and aerospace in the German Ministry of transport. From 1995 to 1997, he worked for the Federal Highway Institute.

As Vice President of Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, Ralf Schweinsberg is repsonsible for the central functions of the authority, among these all legal and international affairs. Due to long experience in the international area, he is an expert in rail safety and interoperability. He represents Germany in the Railway Interoperability and Safety Committee and in the Committee of Technical Experts of OTIF. He acts as speaker of ILGGRI (International Liaison Group of Government Railway Inspectorates) and represents EBA in the ERA Network of NSA and in various international working groups and projects.

Anson Jack

Anson Jack has a degree in Philosophy Politics and Economics and joined British Rail as a graduate trainee in 1979. In his 27 years in the rail industry he has worked in operations, freight, commercial, strategy and European affairs at British Rail, Railtrack and Network Rail, before joining RSSB in July 2003 as Head of European Affairs. From October 2003 to April 2007 he was Director Standards – developing and implementing the industries strategy for standards management. In recent years, Anson has worked with the World Bank, the Transport Research Board in Washington and was a founder Director of the European Infrastructure Managers (EIM).

Frank Walenberg, Director of KEMA Rail Transport Certification

Frank Walenberg is Director of KEMA Rail Transport Certification, one of Europe’s leading Notified Bodies for Railway and Interoperability Certification. He is an electrical engineer with over 30 years of experience in the field of railways. Over these years he held different positions in the rolling Stock Department of Dutch Railways, at the NS Technical Research Department, at AEA Technology Rail BV, KEMA and KEMA Rail Transport Certification.

Many contacts with National Railway Companies, Private Railway Companies, Railway Industries, Railway Authorities, Ministries and Policy Makers in Europe emerged from his project work. He led and was involved in important studies for the European Commission and the European Railway Agency in the area of railway interoperability and ERTMS. Also he participated and still participates actively in international groups and committees like ERRI (ORE), UIC, AEIF and NB RAIL. He was the first president of NB RAIL, the European Co-ordination Group of Railway Notified Bodies during two years. Currently he is speaker for the NB RAIL ERTMS group.

Simon Fletcher, Coordinator Europe – UIC (the International Union of Rail Companies)

Simon Fletcher joined the UIC (the International Union of Rail Companies) on secondment from Southern in the UK in 2003. Initially taking on a role coordinating system safety and operations activity at the UIC’s headquarters in Paris, he immediately found himself spending more and more time in Brussels. Working closely with the European Commission, he led the operations sub-system elements associated with implementation of the European directive on rail system interoperability on behalf of the railway community through the AEIF (European Association of Railways).

In 2004 the focus started to shift towards the European Rail Safety Directive and forging links with the European Rail Agency (ERA). A core role was development and implementation of the Safety Directive and the safety management system that rail operators are required to prepare in compliance with the directive. Recognising that it would be useful for the UIC to have a permanent presence in Brussels to be better placed to support the rail community in operations and safety issues in closer proximity to the other rail sector associations and the European institutions, he has been located there since 2007 and is now the UIC’s Coordinator Europe.

With an operations and safety background and many roles in the UK including Head of Safety and Standards, Area Operations Manager and Deputy Operations Director, Simon also has had experience in the preparation of operational rules and the setting of standards at national level when with RSSB and development of international operations during his 10 years during the project, implementation and operational phases of the Eurostar service through the Channel Tunnel.

Aad Hertogs, Manager Certificering, DeltaRail

As manager certificering at DeltaRail in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Aad Hertogs is responsible for all Notified Body (NoBo) and Independent Safety Assessment (ISA) activities of DeltaRail in the Netherlands. In that position, he was recently involved in the safety assessment of the Betuweline and the High Speed Line South (HSL-South). Furthermore he certified different types of rolling stock and several track-related components.

Aad Hertogs holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University in Delft and joined NedTrain, at that time the rolling stock subsidiary of Netherlands Railways, in 1988. In a 10 year period he became a technical expert in all different types of rolling stock of NS. In 1998 Aad joined Siemens Nederland as Manager of the Transportation Department where he enhanced his experiences in infrastructure systems such interlocking and power stations. He was responsible for all Railway products of Siemens in the Dutch market. After 4 years at Siemens, he started at BAM Rail for the Infraspeed project of the HSL-South as a Construction Manager where he was responsible for all safety activities for the construction of the ballast-less track.

Hans Vogt, Head of the SBB Safety, SBB AG

Hans Vogt is electrical engineer, lawyer and MBA. He joined the Swiss Federal Railway at 1987 and held different leading positions mainly in the sector of railway operation (infrastructure). Since 1999 Hans Vogt is head of the SBB Safety De-partment. In this position he is among other things responsible for the overall safety management of SBB, for the strategic development of safety SBB and for defining the safety program.

Leif Funch, Manager Supervision and Approvals, Danish Public Transport Authority

Mr Leif Funch has been with the Danish Public Transport Authority (formally Danish National Railway Authority) since October 2005. He currently in charge of; certification of railway undertakers, approvals of railway infrastructure managers, certification of train drivers, homologation of rolling stock, approvals of structural subsystems constituents and supervision activities.

His former experience includes:

1999 – 2005 The Danish Accreditation and Metrology Fund, DANAK, Lead Assessor.

1998 – 1999 Carl Bro as Energy & Environment, Project Manager (Environmental and OHS consultant).

1989 – 1998 BST Storkobenhavn a/s, Project Manager/BST consultant.

1987 – 1989 Danish Environmental Centre (Miljo-Kemi), Engineer (environmental and OHS consultant).

Hajo Hajonides, Director Marketing and Sales, Loyds Register

Hajo Hajonides got his degree in engineering in 1980. Since then he worked as an engineer and project manager in various businesses. In 1999 he joined the railway industry as Director Marketing & Sales. In 2006 the NS daughter NedTrain Consulting was acquired by Lloyd’s Register Rail, thus opening new possibilities in he railway market.

He was heavily involved in the development of seven expertise domains amongst which were “Safety” and “Testing & Certification”, which he now heads. The domain “Safety” focuses on track safety systems in rail vehicles and infrastructure like ATB and ERTMS and the establishment of regulations with a strong emphasis on risk management consultancy. The domain “Testing & Certification” embodies NOBO activities, ISA activities, homologation, testing of rolling stock and infra-structure related systems and advice and guidance regarding certification.

Joëlle Vouillamoz, Head of Safety and Environment, BLS AG

Joëlle Vouillamoz (36), engineer with a diploma from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL – Technical University of Lausanne) in rural engineering and specialization in environmental engineering.

From 1998 to 1999 working for Grande Dixence and for a small firm of consulting engineers.

From 1999 to 2002 Risk manager for the Winterthur Insurance Group in Winterthur. Evaluation of liability risks for the insurance especially concerning the environmental liability.

From 2002 to the present at BLS AG, the operator of the Loetschberg base tunel.

Since 2005 head of risk management and environment, since 2009 head of safety and environment. Working on overall safety concepts of railways, safety management systems, risk analysis, open access, safety in long tunnels, train control systems, safety reviews for signalling, transportation of dangerous goods, crisis management, auditing, environment.

Richard van der Weide, Managing Director / Principal Human Factors Consultant, Intergo – Consultancy in Human Factors & Ergonomics, The Netherlands

Richard received his Master’s degree in Exercise Physiology in 1988 at the Free University Amsterdam. He worked as an ergonomist for Dutch Postal & Telecommunications services until he joined NS in 1994. During this time he became involved in many rail related human factors projects. At first this considered mainly physical issues like biomechanics, physical workload, accessibility, and anthropometrics. After a specialisation course in cognitive ergonomics Richard now also manages projects on issues like mental workload, accident analysis, information presentation, etc. Since 2001 he is a CREE-certified ergonomist.

In 2001 Intergo was founded as a result of a management buy-out. Intergo now is an independent Dutch human factors consultancy with 6 qualified ergonomists mainly active in the Rail industry. In 2004 Richard succeeded professor Pieter Rookmaaker as managing director of Intergo.

Dr Eckehard Schnieder, Technische Universität Braunschweig

Eckehard Schnieder (1949) received his M.S. in electrical engineering with specialisation in control and computer engineering in 1972 from the Technical University Braunschweig and his Ph.D. in 1978. Since 1989 is he a full professor and head of the Institute of Traffic Safety and Automation Engineering. In 2005 he received the grade of Dr. h. c. from the Todor Kableshkov Higher School of Transport, Sofia, Bulgaria. His main research interests are the discrete event systems, control system synthesis, automated system design, design tools, operations control systems, localization techniques.

Sponsors

Lloyds Register

The Lloyd’s Register Group’s Transportation team is part of a global organisation with a strong tradition of service dating back to 1760.

Drawing on expertise within the Lloyd’s Register Group, the Transportation business has over 500 specialists, with offices throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. Their services include technical, economic, risk and commercial disciplines – the critical skills and experience which allow a thoroughly crafted and practical solution to be provided.

Services are delivered through:

• Lloyd’s Register Rail for technical assurance and consultancy
• BSL Management Consultants for strategic, economic, organisational and corporate governance issues
• ØDS for specialist consultancy relating to noise and vibration
• Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) for management systems assurance services including IRIS

Lloyd’s Register stands apart: independent, objective, experienced and uncompromising in our commitment to finding safe and efficient solutions.

Services are provided through members of the Lloyd’s Register Group.

KEMA

KEMA Rail Transport Certification was founded mid 2000. KEMA Nederland B.V. was one of the founders. The purpose of KEMA Rail Transport Certification is to have a platform that can act as a Notified Body in the context of the interoperability Directive 96/48/EC and the Directive 2001/16 for conventional rail. For this, absolute independence is a prerogative. This is why it has the legal form of a foundation under Dutch law. KEMA Rail Transport Certification was notified by the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management as the first Dutch Notified Body for railway systems and products and is registered under number 930 by the European Commission. The notification is valid for all subsystems and all interoperability constituents.

KEMA Rail Transport Certification provides specialised railway certification and assessment services, but also offers services that benefit from the available high-level expertise and require an independent position of the consultant. This independent support characterises the KEMA Rail Transport Certification way of working. Our customers are public entities, like the European Commission and the European Railway Agency, but also national governments or public parties related to national government, Railway Infrastructure Managers and Safety Authorities. Corporate clients include Railway Operators, both for passengers and freight, large multinational and small and medium sized railway industries but also rolling stock leasing companies.

The specialised groups of KEMA Rail Transport Certification provide services in all areas of railway systems and operations: Rolling Stock, Civil Structures and Track, Energy Systems, Control, Command & Signalling, Operation and Maintenance systems and continually develop to keep track of European market needs.

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