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safety report for January 2001, a remarkably high number of incidents were
reported with trains in the tunnels and on the marshalling yard. A number of
improvement measures eventually resulted in an increase in the safety
level:
- increasing the traffic control and the maintenance personnel;
- tightening up of procedures;
- more time for systematic maintenance to trains and the track.
Attention to safety
In conclusion, it can be stated that safety had low priority in the first stage of
the implementation; the attention was especially on the innovative nature of
this equally unique, large and complex project and safety scored low. Not in
the last place, because in the event of defects, there are hardly any systems
in place to sanction 'failure', such as is the case for example in the process
industry. In the next stage of the project - compelled by circumstances and
mainly initiated by the quality management of the client - the passive safety
policy was turned into an active policy. In this phase, a continuous process
of recording, analysis and taking improvement measures was started. This
resulted in a continuous fall in the number of accidents and incidents.
Fig. 17.9
All's well that ends
well; arrival of the
tunnel boring machine
in Ellewoutsdijk
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