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

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This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement Nr 285153.

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Risk assessment
- BTP PIER plans
- Identification of hotspots
- Monitoring of hotspot evolution
- Planning for special circumstances
Landscaping
- Removal of vegetation to increase visibility
Detection and surveillance systems
- Detection systems triggering warnings or alerts
- Intelligent CCTV combined with sound warnings
Lighting devices to influence behaviour
- Dispelling blue light source
- Lighting linked to a movement sensor
- Tracking spotlight linked to a movement sensor
Light to increase visibility at hotspots
- Increased visibility by lighting at specific identified hotspots
Safety and emergency devices at stations
- Emergency information at stations to ensure rapid intervention
- Information encouraging help seeking for people with suicide intent
Incident management and information platform
- Essential response actions
- Geo-data relating to the incident location and access points
- Incident information, including third party involvement
Forward facing CCTV
- Forward facing CCTV
Campaigns to raise awareness
- Targeted campaign to prevent suicide
- Targeted campaign to prevent trespassing
- Targeted campaign towards vulnerable categories
Mass media campaigns
- Campaign about safety
- National campaign to prevent suicide
Media guidelines
- Announcements made to passengers after an incident
- Media guidelines to avoid copycat effect
- Publishing statistics
- Removal of death memorials
Learning from best practice
- Learning from international experience
- Learning from national experience
- Learning from research studies
Posters and warning signs
- Posters
- Warning signs
Prohibitive signs
- Prohibitive signs
Education in and outside schools
- Education at school dedicated to risk and safety
- Education for adults in locations close to the tracks
- Education for pupils outside of schools
- Integration of safety messages in school disciplines
Training to prevent suicide
- Gatekeeper training for front line staff
Training to prevent trespass
- Training of staff to identify different trespassers
Training and exercises to mitigate the consequences
- Conducting joint incident response and management exercises
- Exercises for relevant IM & RU staff
- Provide advice to staff on coping with traumatic events
- Rail incident lessons in police training programmes
- Training for relevant IM & RU staff
Collaboration between organisations
- Clarification of responsibilities
- Collaboration with authorities
- Communication strategy
- Consultation with psychiatric hospitals
- Innovative collaboration
- National Suicide Prevention Strategy
Societal collaboration to prevent railway suicide
- Societal collaboration to prevent railway suicide
Information sharing at regional level
- Surveillance based on local intelligence
Patrols and enforcement
- Security patrols able to fine
- Suicide patrols
Cooperation of the police and legal entities
- Agreed response plans and procedures
- Information for the police and judicial entities
- Meetings of the IM/RU and the police and judicial entities
- Memorandum of Understanding with the policy and judicial entities
- Police and judicial entity visits to rail facilities
Fences at stations
- Anti-trespass panels
- Fencing at platform ends
- Intermediate fencing between tracks
- Mid platform fencing
- Sliding doors at platforms
- Symbolic deterrent fencing
Fences outside stations
- Fencing at hotspots
- Fencing off objects close to the tracks
- Measures to soil clothes
- Nets at bridges

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