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| Circular number | No.2021/Safety(A |
|---|---|
| Type | Commercial Circular |
| Topic | ticket-checking |
rule (2) of Rule 2 of the Statutory Investigation into Railway Accidents Rules, 1998 occurs, the railway administration concerned shall, as soon after the accident as possible, by telegraph, supply to the Press such particulars as are mentioned in Rule 2 and as are till then available, and by su Definitions of accident, serious accident, reportable accident, consequential train accident,
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INDIAN RAILWAYS
ACCIDENT
PROTOCOL
Government of India
Ministry of Railways
Safety Directorate
April, 2021
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INDEX
S.No.
Contents
Page No.
1.
Preface
3
2.
Accident Protocol Chart
4
3.
Channel of Reporting Serious Accident Chart
5
4.
Handling of Serious Accident Chart
6
5.
Annexure I - Definitions
7-8
6.
Annexure II - Accident Reporting
9-16
7.
Annexure III - Handling of Serious Accident
17-22
8.
Annexure IV - Role of Officials of various
departments in handling Serious Accident remotely
(not at site).
23-27
9.
Annexure V - Role of Officials of various
departments sent to the site to handle Serious
Accident after receipt of information.
28-35
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Preface
An accident protocol is a standard set of activities / procedures of reporting and handling
Serious Accident. It describes methods and practices for reporting and handling of serious
train accidents that can be read and understood by all.
Definitions of accident, serious accident, reportable accident, consequential train accident,
indicative accidents, unusual incidents, miscellaneous accidents/incidents etc. have been
given in various statutory documents/manuals. They are as follows-
● The Railways Act, 1989
● The Statutory Investigation into Railway Accidents Rules, 1998
● The Railway (Notices of Inquiries into Accidents) Rules, 1988
● Accident Manuals issued by various Zonal Railways
Accident Manuals are prepared and updated by all Zonal Railways which deals with
classification of accidents, duties of different categories of officials in the event of serious
accidents, reporting of accidents, rescue and relief works/machinery, ex-gratia payments,
investigation and inquiries of accidents, procedure for dealing with cases of Sabotage/Train
wrecking, Disaster Management etc.
There is a statutory organization known as The Commission of Railway Safety under the
administrative control of Ministry of Civil Aviation since 1942 with following statutory duties,
● Investigations into Serious Railway Accidents.
● Statutory Inspection of New Railway lines
● Sanction of Minor Works
● Sanction of Condonation of infringements to Schedule of Dimensions.
● Periodical Inspection of open lines.
The purpose of framing Accident Protocol is to give gist of provisions relating to accident
reporting and accident handling, available in different statutory documents/manuals at one
place in a systematic manner so that it can be used easily to deal with serious accidents.
Accident inquiries done by Commissioner of Railway Safety (in case of serious accident) or
by departmental officials (in case of other accident) are separately dealt by various Acts, Rules
and guidelines issued by Ministry of Railways from time to time. For the sake of brevity, the
accident inquiry and related subjects have not been included in the Accident Protocol.
Apart from the serious accidents due to Collisions, Derailments, Fire in Train, Level
Crossing Accidents, etc. there are other unusual incidents - Train wrecking, Bomb Blast,
Explosion, Hijacking, Sabotage, persons falling out of train, run over cases, accidental death,
natural death, murder, suicide, robbery, blockade, landslides, breaches, flash floods, OHE
breakdown etc., resulting into loss of life, grievous injury, substantial loss to Railway property,
disruption of traffic. Security Directorate and Coaching Directorate deals with the unusual
incidents as far as reporting is concerned, however, relief, rescue and restoration of work after
such unusual incidents is done by the different arms of the Railway system.
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*Accident
Reporting of Serious
Accident
(Loss of life, Grievous Injury,
Severe damage
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