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

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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 (...)
Fences at stations This family of measures consists of access restriction or limitation by fences and other physical barriers at specific parts of stations to prevent unauthorised access to the rails. It is considered a physical family because it physically influences the accessibility and potential collision, (...)
Detection and surveillance systems This family of measures consists of technologies aimed to influence the person at risk and to facilitate the surveillance process. The goal of intelligent surveillance systems is to provide an automated early detection and to send a form of alert in real time to the person at risk or to the (...)
Forward facing CCTV This family of measures consists of presenting technical support in particular CCTV . It is considered a technological family because it concerns a technical support to provide information for the entities Measures in this family are often referred to: CCTV , (...)
Posters and warning signs This family of measures consists of installation of posters and warning signs to address trespassing. The specific measures in this family are actions which can be taken is isolation or in the context of a wider campaign to raise awareness. It is considered an educational family because it (...)
Prohibitive signs This family of measures consists of installation of prohibition signs to address trespassing. Prohibitive signs tell to potential trespassers that their behaviour is illegal, forbidden and punishable. It is considered a public awareness and educational family because it instructs people about (...)
Education in and outside schools This family consists of educative measures for pupils and adult people. The common goal of all these measures is to prevent the intrusion by children due to their ignorance of the danger of being on the tracks and to alert adults with a higher probability of exposure about the danger of the (...)
Training to prevent suicide This family consists of training programs dedicated to railway personnel at railway stations or other locations where the staff may be present, in order to identify and approach people at high risk for suicide. It is considered an educational family because it teaches the railway staff how to (...)
Training and exercises to mitigate the consequences This family of measures consists of present trainings that are made for IM/RU incident response units in order to mitigate the consequences. It is considered an educational family because it concerns training, exercises and advices for staff and entities. Measures in this family are often (...)