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Brett King

Safety Engineer

Downer Rail

Downer Mining

Managing Safety Risk Registers

KEY CUSTOMERS

Freight Rail

• Pacific National

• Aurizon

• BHP Billiton

• FMG, Rio Tinto

• Genesee & Wyoming and SCT Logistics

Passenger Rail

• Sydney Trains

• Public Transport

Authority of Western Australia

• Queensland Rail

• Metro Trains Melbourne

• VLine

• Yarra Trams

• Goldlinq

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• Passenger rolling stock - design, build or supply and maintain

• Freight rolling stock - design, supply and maintain for both locomotives and wagons

• Simulators - design, build and commissioning

• Operations and maintenance facilities for both public and

private sector customers

• Operations and maintenance of public transport systems – via participation in the Keolis-Downer JV (for Yarra Trams in Melbourne and Gold Coast Light Rail in Queensland)

• Rolling stock whole-of-life asset management and through life support

Downer Rail Overview

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Waratah Train Project

VISION:

"The Waratah becomes a transport icon NSW is proud to use”

Elements of the Contract

•Reliance Rail Public-Private Partnership (to which Downer is a part) -

manufacturing and maintaining the Waratah trains,.

•Sydney Trains – operates the trains on the Metropolitan Rail Network (MRN)

As part of the Reliance Rail PPP, Downer Rail has delivered 626 Waratah

carriages [78 Sets – eight car trains] costing $3.6 billion, all maintained at the

Auburn Maintenance Centre

The first Waratah train entered passenger service in July 2011 and the final

one recently entered into service on 29 May 2014

Waratah trains will make up to about half of Sydney Trains suburban fleet

when fully integrated into the suburban network.

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Safety Risk Registers in a nutshell

The goal is to providing stakeholders a live document

that can be practically applied to multiple processes

that expresses risk in a quantifiable way.

In doing this we can engage the owners of the controls

to provide a more diligent and transparent application

of risk management processes.

Essentially a way of expressing ‘safety uncertainty’

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Role as measure of due diligence

Rarely if ever is a risk register measured for its effectiveness – this means we

are more likely to value the due diligence rather than the ‘accurate picture

of safety uncertainty’ – is this right? How could we achieve both?

• Works closely with stakeholders and interface partners to manage risk

presented to the business

• Engage all parts of a business to create an individual ethos of

ownership of the risk controls

• Actively promote ongoing review of the risks identified and encourage

a safety culture of open dialogue

• Develop an understanding within the business that risk registers are

owned by operational functions and supported by competent safety

professionals.

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Real benefits of a well managed risk register

• Looking ahead - guides the organisation and provides

confidence

• Rear-guard protection - fixes holes and checks safety

performance

• Focuses minds on the important areas of safety in the business -

but only if we let it

• Avoids repeating past mistakes - if we want to

• Live reference - when looking into new activities or changing

activities or in response to industry alerts

• Active Risk Management – provides visibility of interconnected

causes and relationships

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How do we maintain the benefits?

• The Goldilocks approach to risk registers - not too large etc - be prepared

to change it to get there

• Get the SMEs to own the content and actively manage it

• Keep it up to date – how do we archive entries we feel are no longer

relevant?

• Use experts – this means expert in people as well as processes and

techniques

• Remember it is a database full of opinions and these can (and should)

change – nothing is cast in stone

• Keep good records

• Make it understandable to everyone (and accessible)

• Integrate it into everyday activities (this is the hard one)

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Techniques to boost benefits

• Software platforms

• Templates

• Compatibility with company management systems including non-safety

risk systems

• Training and risk management skill sets

• Safety culture awareness training

• Safety culture surveys

• Interface risk management protocols and workshop.

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Your critical infrastructure. Delivered

Downer Group Level 2, Triniti III, Triniti Business Campus 39 Delhi Road North Ryde NSW 2113

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