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| Circular number | No.2021/Satety(/A |
|---|---|
| Date | 2021-05-21 |
| Type | Commercial Circular |
| Topic | ticket-checking |
Indian Railway Accident Protocol Definitions of accident, serious accident, reportable accident, consequential train accident,
भारत सरकार GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
रेल मंत्रालय MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
रेलवे बोर्ड (Railway Board)
No.2021/Satety(/A&R)/26/5 New Delhi, dated 21.05.2021
The General Managers
All Indian Railways and CMD/KRCL
Sub: Indian Railway Accident Protocol
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For quite some time, need was being felt for issuing Indian Railway Accident
Protocol describing standard set of activities / procedures of reporting and handling serious
accidents that can be read and understood by all concerned, Accordingly the Indian Railway
Accident Protocol has since been framed and approved by Railway Board. 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 as a Ready Reckoner so that it can be used easily to deal with serious
accidents,
A copy of Indian Railway Accident Protocol is enclosed herewith. However, if any
Railway has any valuable suggestion to improve it further, the same may be conveyed to this
office and a soft copy also sent to email id edsafetyrb@ gmail.com,
DA: As above
( pa -Yadav)
Exec. Director/Safety-Il
Railway Board
Copy to : PCSOs of all the Zonal Railways and KRCL Id,
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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 dep
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