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

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Landscaping This family consists of access restriction or limitation by natural physical barriers at specific parts of stations to prevent unauthorised access to the rails. It can equally involve shaping the terrain or the vegetation in a particular area in order to enhance the visibility or the movement (...)
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 (...)
Lighting devices to influence behaviour This family of measures consists of lighting technologies aimed to influence the person at risk of suicide and occasionally to facilitate the surveillance process. It is considered a technological family because it uses lighting technologies to with the aim to discourage people with suicide (...)
Light to increase visibility at hotspots This family consists of lighting technologies aimed to influence the persons at risk of suicide by increasing their visibility, self-awareness and by facilitating surveillance and detection. It is considered a technological family because it uses lighting technology to enhance the surveillance (...)
Safety and emergency devices at stations This family of measures consists of emergency devices, information and contact arrangements to enable rapid intervention when problems occur. This information is usually displayed at stations posters, signs, screens, billboards etc. to provide passengers or bystanders the information on what to (...)
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 to prevent trespass This family consists of preventative training programs for different categories of the railway staff. The goal is to help railway staff prevent trespassing problems by rising awareness with respect to this issue and preparing them to cope with a possible trespassing incident. It is considered (...)