Title :
Yellow Book 4: a unified approach to safety - the maintenance challenge
Abstract :
The background to Engineering Safety Management (The Yellow Book) is explained. Its use in supporting safety assurance for new products that require approval for use on the UK rail network is described. Recent developments in the Yellow Book are described, which extend the scope to encompass the operational stage of the railway asset life cycle - i.e. the application on the YB safety fundamentals to railway maintenance, the challenges and the opportunities that it presents.
Keywords :
legislation; maintenance engineering; railway safety; Engineering Safety Management; UK rail network; Yellow Book; railway asset life cycle; railway maintenance; safety assurance; safety fundamentals;
Conference_Titel :
Safety Assurance, 2005. The IEE Seminar on (Ref. No. 2005/11081)
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-574-1
