Safety Management
Safety and approval management with a complete portfolio for all safety-related topics. From risk and hazard analyses to CSM analyses and detailed inspection plans.
Reduced project duration. High process reliability during commissioning. Comprehensive safety management expertise is a critical factor for efficient and on-schedule project processes.
This is why up-to-date knowledge of the applicable standards, regulations and procedures as well as the embedding of legal requirements into project workflows is essential for the success of your projects. With our team of renowned safety management experts with many years of experience, NEXTRAIL is at your side with specialist expertise in the railway sector for all safety-related topics.
Our services in the area of safety management:
Interacting closely with client project teams, NEXTRAIL offers a complete safety management portfolio – from risk and hazard analyses to CSM analyses and safety and approval plans. Thanks to our in-depth knowledge of standards and regulations and direct access to the NEXTRAIL expert teams from the interdisciplinary departments, we are able to reliably reduce project delays during commissioning due to inspections.
In the railway sector, the implementation of standards, ordinances and guidelines in processes must be ensured. This is not always easy in practice, as the legal framework parameters change in rapid cycles. In order to stay up to date at all times, NEXTRAIL offers the project teams on the client side comprehensive support and rapid knowledge transfer with regard to approval and safety processes. For example, in the context of creating inspection plans as well as verification and validation reports.
In addition, our safety management expert teams will advise you with their practical know-how on process definition and implementation of integrated safety management systems in accordance with current standards such as CENELEC EN 50126.
With certified experts in-house, NEXTRAIL is able to perform evaluation services in the case of non-significant changes for signal, telecommunication and electrotechnical facilities as a registered inspector for equivalent safety and explicit risk assessment in accordance with the German regulation on granting operating authorisation for the railway system (EIGV) and sector guidelines. As a result, you can receive every services needed for the creation and assessment of safety-related topics from a single source.
- CSM-RA Common safety method for evaluating and assessing risks
- CENELEC EN 50126 ff Specification and verification of reliability, availability, maintainability and safety
- EIGV German railway commissioning permit ordinance
- Sectoral guideline Authorisation assessment of signalling systems
- VDE 0831-103 Determination of safety requirements for technical functions in railway signalling technology
- Risk matrix Method for risk assessment according to EN 50126 and VDE 0831-103
- Risk graph Method for risk assessment according to VDV 331/332 (Association of German Transport Companies)
- FME(C)A Procedure for failure modes, effects (and criticality) analysis in accordance with IEC 60812
- ETA Event tree analysis in accordance with IEC 62502
- FTA Fault tree analysis in accordance with IEC 61025
- HAZOP Hazard analysis in accordance with IEC 61882
- STPA Hazard and risk analysis in accordance with Systems Theoretic Process Analysis
5 out of 5 stars
- Immediate understanding of the problem situation
- Proactive information transfer for own processing (e.g. DB template)
- Concrete, targeted and helpful discussion, comments and corrections
- Pragmatic approach with measure and understanding
- Comprehensive expertise
- Very good responsiveness
- Very flexible
Dr Jens Engelmann
Your contact person
Here you will find your contact person for safety management
Dr Sonja-Lara Bepperling
Member of Executive Board, head of Railway Safety, registered inspector for equivalent safety and risk assessment
Frankfurt am Main
Dr Sonja-Lara Bepperling is a member of the Executive Board and Head of Railway Safety at NEXTRAIL GmbH. For 15 years, she has been a proven expert in operational and technical risk analyses in the railway sector – in control-command and signalling system in particular. She possesses methodical expertise in risk and hazard analyses as well as in-depth knowledge of the processes involved in the approval processes.
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