A site tour of the Sydney Metro project, and speeches from key safety executives and decision makers at Metro Trains Melbourne, Queensland Rail and Bombardier headline the 2018 edition of RISSB’s Rail Safety Conference.
The Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board (RISSB) will host its annual Rail Safety Conference in Sydney on May 9 and 10, 2018. This year’s event is themed, ‘Changing Technology, Changing Perceptions’.
Day one of the conference will kick off with a much-anticipated tour of the Sydney Metro Trains Facility near Rouse Hill, as well as a station prototype and the station site at Castle Hill. Numbers are limited to just 23, so interested parties are encouraged by RISSB to book ASAP.
The conference portion of the event will kick off shortly before 1pm on May 9, with a series of presentations chaired by RISSB chief executive Paul Daley.
Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator chief executive Sue McCarrey will deliver a keynote address on the ONRSR’s role as a risk-based regulator, while speeches will also come from Queensland Rail’s head of track safety Alan Jones, and Bombardier Transportation’s QNGR fleet director Chris Bradley, among others.
Day two of the event will include an international keynote from the University of Koblenz-Landau’s André Schneider, who will talk about the development of GRADE: Global Railway Accident Database and Evaluation.
An up-to-date list of speakers is below.
The RISSB Rail Safety Conference will take place at Rydges World Square in Sydney, on May 9 and 10, 2018. RISSB is also holding its annual Rail Safety Dinner at 7pm on May 9, at Sydney’s Doltone House Hyde Park. Click here for more details.
Speakers:
- Sue McCarrey, Chief Executive, Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator (ONRSR)
- Paul Daly, Chief Executive Officer, Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board (RISSB)
- Nat Nagy, Executive Director, Transport Safety, Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)
- Stephen Jones, Executive Director, Safety, Sustainability & Environment, Sydney Metro, Transport for NSW
- Dr Todd Bentley, Director – Safety, Environment and Risk, Metro Trains Melbourne
- Alan Jones, Head of the Track Safety Taskforce, Queensland Rail
- André Schneider, Research Assistant, CCRDMT, University of Koblenz-Landau
- Chris Bradley, Fleet Director, QNGR, Bombardier Transportation
- Stuart Harrison, Head of Rail Operations, Roy Hill
- Anjum Naweed, Associate Professor, Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Science, CQUniversity
- Peter Doggett, Executive Director, National Operations, ONRSR
- Julie Bullas, Executive Director, Policy, Reform and Stakeholder Engagement, ONRSR
- Simon Foster, Executive Director, Technical, ONRSR
- Jesse Baker, General Manager – Safety & Innovation, Rail Industry Safety & Standards Board
- Russ Evans, General Manager – National Rail Programs, Rail Industry Safety & Standards Board
- Mike Stuart North, Safety and Systems Assurance Director, ALTRAC Light Rail
- Dane Newton, Senior Manager, Risk and Analysis, ONRSR
- Phil Allan, Standards Development Manager, Safety, Rail Industry Safety & Standards Board
- Dr Luke Wildman, Key RAMSS Expert, Siemens Mobility
- John Furness, Manager Standards, Adelaide, Enterprise Services, ARTC
- Michael Killeen, Formerly A380 Fleet Manager at Qantas
- Graham Jackson, Director, Safety, Transport for NSW
- Trevor Moore, Signalling Standards Engineer, ARTC