Safety Management
Safety and approval management with a complete portfolio for all safety-related topics. From risk and hazard analyses to CSM analyses and detailed inspection plans.
Reduced project duration. High process reliability during commissioning. Comprehensive safety management expertise is a critical factor for efficient and on-schedule project processes.
Safety is essential for the success of railway systems. Not only in operation, but also for smarter processes in each project phase. Documents that are optimally prepared and executed in accordance with standards, such as risk and hazard analyses and detailed inspection plans, can significantly shorten project duration and commissioning approval. For example, by minimising revisions, using standard-compliant tendering procedures and ensuring process reliability during commissioning.
This is why up-to-date knowledge of the applicable standards, regulations and procedures as well as the embedding of legal requirements into project workflows is essential for the success of your projects. With our team of renowned safety management experts and assessors with many years of experience, quattron is at your side with specialist know-how in the rail sector for all safety-related topics.
Interacting closely with client project teams, quattron offers a complete safety management portfolio – from risk and hazard analyses to CSM analyses and safety and approval plans. Thanks to our in-depth knowledge of standards and regulations and direct access to the quattron expert teams from the interdisciplinary departments, we are able to reliably reduce project delays during commissioning due to inspections.
In the railway sector, the implementation of standards, ordinances and guidelines in processes must be ensured. This is not always easy in practice, as the legal framework parameters change in rapid cycles. In order to stay up to date at all times, quattron offers the project teams on the client side comprehensive support and rapid knowledge transfer with regard to approval and safety processes. For example, as part of the creation of test and approval plans, verification and validation reports. In addition, our safety management expert teams use their practical know-how to advise you on the process definition and implementation of integrated safety management systems in accordance with current standards such as EN 50126.
With certified experts in-house, quattron is able to perform evaluation services in the case of non-significant changes for signal, telecommunication and electrotechnical facilities as a registered inspector for equivalent safety and explicit risk assessment in accordance with the German regulation on granting operating authorisation for the railway system (EIGV) and sector guidelines. As a result, you can receive every services needed for the creation and assessment of safety-related topics from a single source. Thanks to the close cooperation with the inspection body CKBIS of the CERSS Competence Center for Railway Safety Technology, quattron can offer the entire spectrum of AsBo, PSV and ISA assessments.
Our expertise in the procedures
- CSM-RA Common safety method for evaluating and assessing risks
- EN 50126 ff Specification and verification of reliability, availability, maintainability and safety
- Railroad Commissioning Authorization Ordinance (EIGV) Ordinance on the Issuing of Commissioning Authorizations for the Railway System
- Sectoral guideline Authorisation assessment of signalling systems
- VDE 0831-103 Determination of safety requirements for technical functions in railway signalling technology
Our methods and tool expertise
- Risk matrix Method for risk assessment according to EN 50126 and VDE 0831-103
- Risk graph Method for risk assessment according to VDV 331/332 (Association of German Transport Companies)
- FME(C)A Procedure for failure modes, effects (and criticality) analysis in accordance with IEC 60812
- ETA Event tree analysis in accordance with IEC 62502
- FTA Fault tree analysis in accordance with IEC 61025
- HAZOP Hazard analysis in accordance with IEC 61882
- STPA Hazard and risk analysis in accordance with Systems Theoretic Process Analysis
Interacting closely with client project teams, quattron offers a complete safety management portfolio – from risk and hazard analyses to CSM analyses and safety and approval plans. Thanks to our in-depth knowledge of standards and regulations and direct access to the quattron expert teams from the interdisciplinary departments, we can reliably reduce project delays during commissioning due to inspections.
Special training units for safety and authorisation management are:
- Safety and authorisation assessment processes
- Approval assessment according to sector guideline
- Principles of development according to EN5012x
- Development of software according to EN5012x
- RAMS according to EN5012x
- RAMS intensive training
We will be happy to provide you with a customised offer.