China News Service, May 10. According to Taiwan's "Central News Agency", the Taiwan authorities' Transportation Safety Investigation Committee released the final investigation report on the accident of the Taiwan Railway Taroko on the 10th.
The Yunan Council will put forward 9 suggestions for improving the operation safety of Taiwan Railway.
The Yunan Council will put forward 9 suggestions for improvement of Taiwan Railway. The first is that in the safety part of operation, the safety management specifications and implementation mechanism of on-track construction should be clearly defined, included in the contract requirements, and their importance should be emphasized in the bidding instructions to fully disclose the safety specification.
The National Transportation Safety Board believes that the safety regulations that Taiwan Railway should disclose should include at least 10 items. The first 5 items are: pre-construction risk identification and assessment principles, defining the conditions for the implementation of power outages and blockades and setting up supporting procedures, specifying the scope of the work area and requiring Include all possible areas affected by construction, require daily construction notification mechanism, access control facilities and measures (excluding construction manufacturers).
The other 5 items are: defining the inspection time and number of the supervisory factory site, correcting and reviewing false alarm events, emergency notification procedures, application and training of hand-held radios, announcement and use of legal emergency contact numbers, construction of train running tools Potentially dangerous places should be equipped with active detection equipment for foreign body intrusion on the track and provide guidance on appropriate protective measures, and the construction personnel should be directly trained by the Taiwan Railway Administration.
The OSC also put forward eight other suggestions for improvement, including establishing a change management system, re-examining the calculation method for additional construction periods, and evaluating and installing an event recorder that complies with international recommended standards.
The Transportation Security Council also suggested that the transportation department should re-examine the organizational division of labor, and clearly distinguish between the specialization of railway safety supervision, railway engineering and railway operation organizations, so that rights and responsibilities are clearly defined.
The National Transportation Safety Board recommends that the Railway Bureau, with reference to international railway safety regulations or research, revise supervision regulations and incorporate safety standards or recommended measures, such as: foreign body intrusion active detection system, tunnel protection measures (guide wall or structural guardrail) requirements, carriage structure impact The definition of the buffer zone and warning signs, the necessary equipment and signs for safety and response in the train, the necessary parameters of the train recorder and the residual ability of crash resistance, etc., at the same time, review and strengthen the training and skill verification and verification mechanism of the driving personnel to ensure that the railway operating organization is actually implemented.
On the morning of April 2, 2021, the 408th train Taroko Ziqiang was bound for Taitung Station from Shulin Station, passing through Heren Station to Chongde Station. When the train exited the south exit of the Heren Tunnel, it collided with a train. A large truck that had previously slipped from the construction access road above the track and stopped on the track, all 8 carriages of the train derailed, killing 2 drivers and 47 passengers, 49 people, and 1 cleaner and 212 passengers, 213 people were injured. .