State of Safety Report 2018/19 Railway Safety Regulator State of Safety Report 2018/19 1 State of Safety at a glance 3990 operational occurrences 11% 9268 security-related incidents 20% 375 fatalities due to operational occurrences 17% 2660 injuries due to operational occurrences 23% 641 Fatality Weighted Injuries due to 4% operational occurrence 30 fatalities due to security-related 36% occurrences 584 injuries due to security-related 6% occurrences 2 Railway Safety Regulator State of Safety Report 2018/19 88.4 Fatalities Weighted injuries due 15% to security-related occurrences 284 fatalities as a result of people struck by 17% trains 223 injuries as a result of people struck by 9% trains 18 fatalities as result of people traveling 28% outside designated passenger areas 156 injuries as result of people traveling outside 11% designated passenger areas Railway Safety Regulator State of Safety Report 2018/19 3 Contents ABBREVIATIONS.................................................................................................................................................................9 CEO’s FOREWORD............................................................................................................................................................11 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.....................................................................................................................................................14 CHAPTER 1............................ ..........................................................................................................................................19 INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................................................................20 Purpose of the report .....................................................................................................................................................21 Description of occurrences and incident data ................................................................................................................22 Report structure .............................................................................................................................................................23 CHAPTER 2 .......................................................................................................................................................................25 RAILWAY OPERATIONAL SAFETY AND SECURITY OVERVIEW...................................................................................................26 Operations overview ......................................................................................................................................................27 Safety performance overview.........................................................................................................................................29 Persons affected by operational safety occurrences .....................................................................................................38 Safety of passengers ...............................................................................................................................................39 Safety of the workforce ............................................................................................................................................41 Safety of the public ..................................................................................................................................................42 Security performance overview.......................................................................................................................................44 CHAPTER 3: .....................................................................................................................................................................49 TRAIN COLLISIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................50 2018/19 Noteworthy statistics ....................................................................................................................................... 50 Safety Performance .......................................................................................................................................................51 CHAPTER 4 .......................................................................................................................................................................57 DERAILMENTS ..................................................................................................................................................................58 2018/19 Noteworthy statistics ........................................................................................................................................58 Safety Performance ... ...................................................................................................................................................58 4 Railway Safety Regulator State of Safety Report 2018/19 CHAPTER 5 .......................................................................................................................................................................61 LEVEL CROSSINGS ..........................................................................................................................................................62 2018/19 Noteworthy statistics ........................................................................................................................................62 Safety Performance .......................................................................................................................................................63 CHAPTER 6 .......................................................................................................................................................................67 PEOPLE STRUCK BY TRAINS.........................................................................................................................................68 2018/19 Noteworthy statistics ........................................................................................................................................68 Safety performance ........................................................................................................................................................68 CHAPTER 7 .......................................................................................................................................................................73 PLATFORM-TRAIN INTERCHANGE .................................................................................................................................74 2018/19 Noteworthy statistics ........................................................................................................................................74 Safety performance ........................................................................................................................................................74 CHAPTER 8 .......................................................................................................................................................................79 RAILWAY SECURITY .........................................................................................................................................................80 2018/19 Noteworthy statistics ........................................................................................................................................81 Security performance .....................................................................................................................................................81 CHAPTER 9 .......................................................................................................................................................................87 RAPID RAIL POLICE CRIME OVERVIEW REPORT .........................................................................................................88 Contact crimes ...............................................................................................................................................................88 Contravention of the Legal Succession Act ....................................................................................................................89 Property-related crimes ..................................................................................................................................................89 CHAPTER 10 .....................................................................................................................................................................91 RSR INTERVENTIONS ......................................................................................................................................................92 APPENDIX – A : OCCURRENCE AND INCIDENT REPORTING CATEGORIES ..............................................................92 Railway Safety Regulator State of Safety Report 2018/19 5 List of figures Figure 1: TFR operations data .............................................................................................................................. 27 Figure 2: PRASA operations data ........................................................................................................................