Railway Suicides & Trespassing Accidents:
How to prevent the incidents and mitigate the consequences?

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Risk assessment This family of measures includes a number of different ways in which an organisation or the railway industry identifies risks in normal or special circumstances. This is an underpinning measure which supports decision-making and targeting of other measures. It is considered an organisational (...)
Learning from best practice This family of measures includes different ways in which a railway organisation or decision-maker can improve their knowledge and skills regarding suicide and trespassing prevention. This is an underpinning measure which supports decision-making and targeting of other measures. It can also (...)
Collaboration between organisations This family of measures includes national partnerships as well as local ones (e.g. linked to a specific route or geographical area) to produce better joint working between a range of organisations and agencies. These measures underpin or support the implementation of many other measures. The (...)
Societal collaboration to prevent railway suicide This family concerns the close collaboration between different concerned actors in order to stop the railway traffic before an incident happens. The service that first becomes aware of a potential incident request and receives a temporary traffic shut down. The aim is to create good conditions (...)
Information sharing at regional level This family concerns the surveillance of individuals at risk based on intelligence about those at risk and knowledge of high risk locations. The principle is that there is a system or an organisation that can provide an alarm to somebody that the concerned person is approaching the tracks. It (...)
Patrols and enforcement This family of measures consists of visible surveillance performed by special security patrols to deter access to high risk areas, to enforce the law and to intervene when potential incidents are identified. It is considered a dissuasive family because it is aimed to detect and discourage (...)
Cooperation of the police and legal entities This family of measures consists of improving cooperation with the police and involved external agencies before and during an incident. It is considered an organisational and processes family because it deals with organisation, cooperation, preparation and processes between entities before an (...)