Passenger Railroad Facility Safety Audit As Revenue Protection
Thousands of slip, trip, missteps and fall accidents and train collisions occur each year at railroad stations, terminals, and
grade crossings resulting in serious injuries causing a significant drain of financial resources.
A paper recently presented at the 2015 Joint Rail Conference provides guidance in identifying common safety hazards and easy ways to reduce or eliminate these dangers. Authors of the paper are Carl Berkowitz, Ph.D., PE and Louis D. Rubenstein, a retired traffic engineer.
The paper covers a variety of safety issues, which are commonly present in a railroad environment. It also provides estimates regarding the cost of railroad related pedestrian accidents. More than 95 percent of injuries on rail system injuries are minor. The top one percent of injury claims can account for 20 percent of the total claims’ cost.
