Section 5: Responsibilities, Responding and Reporting

Question 1

The rail safety National Law Action 2012 establishes a regulatory scheme with the following key elements

Answer 1

Performance based safety duties, accreditation scheme, rail operators create and implement a safety management system, sanctions and penalties, cost benefit protections, alcohol and drug controls, provisions for the creation of codes of practice

Question 2

Employee WHS Obligations and responsibilities

Answer 2

ensure actions are int the best interest of your own safety and that of others, ensure you efficiently and effectively identify report and implement appropriate initial controls of any safety and environmental hazard identified, implement emergency management procedures within your work environment as appropriate

Question 3

Employees must recognise that it is as much their duty to perform work safely as it is to do their work well. Employees must

Answer 3

follow all safeworking practices and procedures, remain alert to hazards, avoid hazards and report them, take necessary action to ensure no other person is endangered, undertake training as necessary, participate in and cooperate with WHS initiatives, ensure all injuries and incidents are notified to management and service delivery centre

Question 4

Types of operational threats include

Answer 4

Sabotage, vandalism, theft, trespassing, information compromise

Question 5

In order to responsibly manage and appropriately respond to environmental issues a business should develop prodedures for

Answer 5

contamination of fuel and water supply, the safe handling and management of dangerous goods freight

Question 6

Communication in the rail network must be

Answer 6

clear brief and unambiguous, relevant to the task at hand, and agreed as to its meaning before being acted upon

Question 7

To assist with on time running, it is your responsibility to

Answer 7

monitor and record train running schedules

Question 8

The working timetables book includes information about

Answer 8

Running schedules, locomotive speeds, track speeds, tonnages which can be hauled, length of crossing loops, switch in/out times for signal boxes and shunting yards, special instructions, local instructions

Question 9

TRACO

Answer 9

train running report form

Question 10

Information recorded in TRACO

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locomotive and train number, number of wagons and tonnage hauled, length of train, sign on and off times, running times, amount of fuel used, scheduled and actual time at locations en route, reason and length of delays, any incidents which occur

Question 11

Incident report books record details of incidents such as

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detaching a vehicle en route, train running delays, locomotive failure, level crossing accidents, safeworking irregularities, injury to personnel, load shifts, defective wagons

Question 12

To manage an emergency is may be necessary for you to

Answer 12

isolate the incident and control and safeguard the site, prevent further danger/harm, stabilise a situation within the limitations of duty of care and workplace procedures and wait for expert emergency services to arrive

Question 13

While carrying out safeworking, the 3 C’s are

Answer 13

communicate, cross check and challenge