Monitoring of the practical implementation of safety management systems

Near misses and minor collisions, which are not revealed, occur in the case of radio-controlled locomotives. Users do not dare to report such incidents, due to fear of sanctions. There is no way of learning from near misses and collisions involving radio-controlled locomotives, which hampers the development of the safety of radio-controlled work. In the railway sector, safety management systems remain at the level of target setting, since their implementation is virtually unsupervised by public authorities and there is little self-supervision.

The Finnish Transport Safety Agency begin monitoring the practical implementation of safety management systems.

Supervision should mainly be performed by interviewing randomly selected employees engaged in practical work, and comparing the information received from them with the content of the company's safety management system.

Near misses and minor collisions, which are not revealed, occur in the case of radio-controlled locomotives. Users do not dare to report such incidents, due to fear of sanctions. There is no way of learning from near misses and collisions involving radio-controlled locomotives, which hampers the development of the safety of radio-controlled work. In the railway sector, safety management systems remain at the level of target setting, since their implementation is virtually unsupervised by public authorities and there is little self-supervision.