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http://dx.doi.org/10.7782/JKSR.2016.19.5.698

Diagnosing Railway Incident Response Manuals and Their Improvement  

Lim, Kwang-kyun (Korea Transportation Safety Authority)
Yun, Gyeong-cheol (Wongwon University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society for Railway / v.19, no.5, 2016 , pp. 698-707 More about this Journal
Abstract
An emergency manual is designed to minimize the extent and effect of lives and assets; it is not designed to prevent an accident. There have been continuous arguments in terms of manual effectiveness regardless of the fact that much effort and great cost have been invested in emergency planning and operations. The problems are that there are a number of different emergency manuals, that these manuals are hard to understand and rarely used due to their complexity, that they provide little direction toward the taking of action, and that coordination is difficult between those involved; all of these problems are related to two different pieces of legislations that define emergency manuals in different ways in terms of the contents required. The study has tried to respond to these arguments by exploring relevant legislation to identify emergency manuals that can be used to respond to rail incidents/accidents, for which previous responses have seemed inefficient. Further, some parts of the emergency manual contents are found to overlap, including the ways of differentiating incident responses, personnel roles and responsibilities by types of accident, and threat levels, all of which has resulted in unnecessary pages of the manuals. In preparing and operating such manuals, this study recommends that one piece of legislation that directly affects rail undertakings must be applied in an effort to increase effectiveness.
Keywords
Railway incident/accident; Incident management; Emergency response; Manual for incident management; Emergency response plan;
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