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4. (a) Leading up to the train crash, the on-site supervisor and Engineer D committed health and safety violations.


(b) Based on the information in the table and the calculated accident rate, what conclusions can be drawn?


(a) Calculate the accident frequency rate for EACH of the 3 years. Show your calculations at EACH step.


(b) Comment on what was negative about the co-ordination between RS and Contritum.


2. (a) Comment on what was negative about the RS director’s approach to contractor selection.


(b) The regional health and safety competent authority has investigated the events leading up to the person accessing the railway and becoming injured.


1. (a) What is the role of health and safety legislation in the workplace?


Task 1: Role of health and safety in accident investigation


Contritum is a multi-discipline contractor with 10 years’ experience in railway work.


One area of RS’s rail network has eight mainline approaches into a large city in the South region. It includes a particularly busy commuter route.


A new train safety system, called TrainDetect, has been developed which alerts train drivers to the presence of another train ahead of them on the same track.


RailStart (RS) is a private organisation overseen by the Government. It looks after track and signalling for the railway network in four regions across the country.


5. The lifting operation to unload the stacks of chairs from the flatbed truck was assessed using the HSE’s MAC assessment tool. An extract from this completed assessment is provided in supporting document 4.


Task 5: MAC Assessment for unloading chairs


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