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LESSON PLAN for TRAINING of GATE-KEEPER Centre For For official use only ¼ããÀ¦ã ÔãÀ‡ãŠãÀ - GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ÀñÊ㠽㶨ããÊã¾ã - MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS LESSON PLAN FOR TRAINING OF GATE-KEEPER CAMTECH/2002/C/G-KEEPER/1.0 November - 2002 Centre for Advanced Maintenance Excellence in Maintenance TECHnology Maharajpur, GWALIOR - 474 020 ½ãÖãÀã•ã¹ãìÀ, ÌãããäÊã¾ãÀ - 474 020 LLEESSSSOONN PPLLAANN FFOORR TTRRAAIINNIINNGG OOFF GGAATTEEKKEEEEPPEERR Foreword India is a dense populated country with increasing demand for transportation, both rail and road traffic. This has necessitated construction of very large number of level crossings. For better maintenance of these level crossings, gatekeepers are required to be well trained in his trade. This is the first lesson plan made for training of Gatekeeper. This lesson plan contains detail information regarding operation and maintenance practices. The gatekeeper is the person, who is directly involved at grass roots level in operation & maintenance of level crossings. Civil Engineering directorate of CAMTECH has made excellent effort in bringing out the lesson plan for training of Gatekeeper based on the modules issued by Railway Board. I am sure that this lesson plan will be certainly proved to be extremely useful to the instructor in training schools for training the Gatekeepers. CAMTECH/Gwalior C.B.Middha Date : 02.12.2002 Executive Director Preface Indian Railways is experiencing a period of continuous growth both in freight and passenger traffic. This increasing demand is being met by more intensive utilisation of the railway assets. The gatekeeper is the most important person who is directly involved in the safety of passengers and road users. The gatekeeper needs to be educated in operation and maintenance procedures of level crossing gates. The educated person is always a asset and contributes to the accident free operations. To have uniform syllabus all over Indian Railway, this lesson plan has been prepared based on the modules, published by Railway Board. This lesson plan will be immense use to the instructor s of all training schools for giving training to the Gatekeepers. This lesson plan does not supersede any existing instructions from Railway Board, IRPWM, RDSO on the subject. I am grateful for the assistance given to me by Shri Anil Dubey, STA/Civil/CAMTECH, who went through the complete text, collected information, data etc. and done editing work. Nice data entry and composing has done by Shri Ramesh Bhojwani, CO/CAMTECH. We welcome any suggestion for addition and improvements from our readers. CAMTECH/Gwalior J.K.Nandanwar Date : 29.11.2002 Director/Civil CONTENT Sr. NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE NO. Foreword ii Preface iii Content iv Correction Slip v 1.0 Personal safety 01 2.0 Basic signalling and protection 07 3.0 Action during emergency 24 4.0 Level crossing 33 ISSUE OF CORRECTION SLIPS The correction slips to be issued in future for this handbook will be numbered as follows: CAMTECH/2002/C/G-KEEPER/1.0/CS. # XX date .....…………....... Where “XX” is the serial number of the concerned correction slip (starting from 01 onwards). CORRECTION SLIPS ISSUED Sr. No. Date of Page no. and Item No. Remarks of issue modified C.Slip CAMTECH/2002/C/G-KEEPER/1.0 1 1.0 - PERSONAL SAFETY CE/141 Duration : ½ day 1.1 General : Gatekeeper is required to take personal safety by himself. The job of a gateman in Railways is very responsible. The gateman should be an the alert and be prepared to take immediate action, should danger be apprehended, and he is responsible for both the Rail and Road users safety. Generally all gate at level crossings shall be kept constantly closed and securely fastened across the through fare on both sides of the railway and shall only be opened when it is necessary and safe to open them for the passage of road traffic. Human failure continues to be one of the biggest factor contributing to accidents. At all non-interlocked level crossings on double/multiple lines shall having gate leaves. Most of the mis-happenings are occurred in non-interlocking L.C. in mid-section. Here as per the rules gateman should always closes the gate for road users and when gate is to be opened for road traffic he should protect the track with banner flag and exchange P.N. with Station Master, then opens the gate for road user. It is very useful for personnel safety of gatekeeper and road users. The following precautions are to be taken: A- Before going to the site for working : a) The Mate or senior most Gangman posted to work as mate should see that the equipment such as Level-cum Gauge, square, hemp cord, metric stick, keying and spiking hammer, fish bolt spanner, 2 sets H.S. flag (2 sets H.S.Lamp during night), 12 detonators, marking chalk and rail thermometer are there and are in proper working order. Also he should see that there are sufficient number of shovels or powrahs, beater, crowbars, ballast forks or rakes mortar pans or baskets and wooden mallets. b) He should see that the equipment, which is given to him, is in good working order and if he finds any defect, immediately he should replace it. The handles of the beater, ballast rake, hammer should be tight enough so that during work it does not get detached and causes injury. The teeth of the ballast rake should not be so short in length that may cause injury to the fingers during opening. B- When he proceeds to the site for working – a) He should always walk in the left hand cess of the track and should not walk on the line to avoid any accident due to over looking and also during his walk he should see behind time to time for any passage of train and warn his colleague if he finds him walking on the track. Lesson Plan for training of Gatekeeper November - 2002 CAMTECH/2002/C/G-KEEPER/1.0 2 b) He should see that the equipment like ballast rake, shovel etc. does not come to the infringement dimensions of the track. c) He should have the following knowledge of rules and signals for protection of the train during walking and working in the field. (i) Protecting the line in an emergency and during work affecting the track. (ii) Method of fixing and safety range of detonators. (iii) Action to be taken when a train is noticed to have parted. (iv) “Safety first rules”. (v) Action to be taken where sabotage is suspected. 1.2 Safe working methods : A- Through packing (i) Opening of ballast : During opening of ballast hand should not be used, the crib ballast should be broken with the help of pickaxe. Care should be taken to see so that the pickaxe should be held firmly and during driving it should not be struck with the hard solid metal and it does not slip from the hand and strike with the other man at work. When ballast rakes are used to drag the ballast inside and outside, care should be taken that heads are not bend sufficiently that the dust materials do not enter in to the eyes. Care should be taken to see that during working with the rakes no one should be allowed to stand or pass through behind the rake. The wire claw should not be used too fast otherwise the dust will enter in to the eyes. The ballast should not be heaped up more than 50mm above the rail to avoid any entanglement with the hanging part of the vehicle. (ii) Examination of rail, sleepers, and fastenings : During examination of bottom surface of rail, the head should not be leaned to see the bottom surface and instead that mirror should be used. When fastening like dog spike, rail screw are required to be removed from the wooden sleeper, the crow bar should be used carefully and heavy pressure should not be given to avoid any sudden impact on the floor and causing accident. (iii) Re-spacing of sleeper and slewing of rail : During re-spacing of sleeper and slewing of rail, the bottom of crow bar should be grounded sufficiently and then pressure should be applied otherwise there may be chance of hitting the crow bar on the floor and causing accident. The angle of crow bar should be slightly less to avoid uplifting of the sleeper from the bed. (iv) Gauging : For slacking and tightening of the gauge when crow bar are used to hold the rail, it should be well grounded in the ballast bed and should be given well pressure otherwise there may be chances of slipping the rail and causing damage to the leg of the standing men at site holding the crow bar. When hammering is required to be done no man should stand in front of it. ERC should not be driven in or taken out by using hammer. ERC applicator or extractor should be used. Lesson Plan for training of Gatekeeper November - 2002 CAMTECH/2002/C/G-KEEPER/1.0 3 (v) Packing : The aim of packing is to have each sleeper firmly and uniformly packed so that rail over the sleeper are in correct level. Before packing is commenced it should be seen that chairs/bearing plates are firmly fixed with the sleeper and rails are properly supported over the bearing plates. For through packing of sleeper, four men should be engaged in each sleeper two at each rail seat should stand back to back and pack the ballast under the sleeper. The beater should be worked diagonally with blunt end and should not be lifted above the chest height. The ballast should not be driven forcibly under the sleeper to cause uneven bearing and avoid striking the edges of the sleeper and timber.
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