The general objectives of the supervision strategy for 2015
- Supervision of the technical condition, maintenance process and classification of road-rail level crossings (including illegal crossings) and verification of the railway crossings documentation records against the actual status, including especially the crossings on which railway events have taken place.
- Supervision of transport preparation and implementation, including the elements related to infrastructure maintenance;
- Supervision of the working time of train drivers employed by several entities;
- Supervision of entities holding safety certificates, authorisations and attestations in the course of the re-certification process, including selected criteria of Safety Management Systems;
- Supervision of the operational safety of side-tracks;
- Supervision of the infrastructure condition and maintenance process, including in the scope of the Safety-Management Systems;
- Supervision of the transportation of dangerous goods by rail;
- Supervision of the strategic railway and nodal infrastructure elements, used in the transportation of dangerous goods.
- Supervision of the work of examination boards;
- Supervision of the preparation and implementation of the transport process, including the compliance with passengers’ rights (ensuring an appropriate level of quality and passenger safety);
- Supervision of the technical condition of railway vehicles (technical examinations);
- Supervision of products used in the rail industry;
- Supervision of the certificates issued to entities in charge of the maintenance of railway vehicles, and certificates regarding maintenance functions;
- Supervision of the safety of rail traffic in the course of investment work related with the railway infrastructure;
- Supervision of the fulfilment of conditions for issuing licences;
- Supervision of the implementation of post-inspection recommendations and administrative decisions;
- Supervision of the validity of using auxiliary signals and written orders;
- Supervision of the functioning of and reaction to the information sent by the systems for the detection of rolling stock emergencies in motion (ASDEK).
- Supervision of the technical condition and maintenance process of the power supply system for railway traffic control equipment.
- Supervision of the technical condition and maintenance of the railway traffic control equipment.
- Supervision of the training centres entered into the list of entities authorised to conduct training and the examination of train driver's licences and certificate applicants, and the operational mode of examination boards established within those centres;
- Supervision of the transportation process in international transport (including at border stations),
- Supervision of the technical condition and maintenance process of railway traction network.
- Supervision of the railway vehicle maintenance process, including in the scope of the Safety Management Systems;
- Supervision of the implementation of recommendations and instructions given by the National Railway Accident Investigation Committee;
- Inspection of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system efficiency;
- Supervision of products used in the railway industry (in the field of rail interoperability);
- Supervision of the degree of preparation to operate in winter conditions, including in the scope of the Safety-Management Systems;
- Supervision of the fulfilment of conditions for issuing licences for the provision of railway services;
- Operation of the Dynamic Passenger Information System (selected railway stations);
- Availability and reliability of the valid (poster) timetable at selected platforms;
- Announcements on international trains, in accordance with the requirements resulting from Annex II, Part II to Regulation 1371/2007;
- Supervision of notified bodies;
- Supervision of pressure equipment;
- Supervision of the compliance with the principal requirements of funicular railways;
- Supervision of entities authorised to conduct medical and psychological examinations;
- Supervision of the causes of SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger);
- Supervision of the functioning of the technical rescue services of infrastructure managers, in the scope of Safety-Management Systems;
- Supervision of underground transport safety.
The list of individual tasks regarding the reference areas is as follows (activities whose total number exceeded 15 were included)
The above areas were identified on the basis of the analyses of the results of inspection, verification and monitoring activities, complaints and reports, accident frequency, operational performance, certificate validity periods, the operational difficulties impact analysis, and the degree of damage to the railway infrastructure.
Moreover, one of the objectives assumed by the President of the Office of Rail Transport is to promote the culture of safety by publishing selected important results of the conducted supervision activities on the UTK website.
* It should be noted that the above values were calculated by assuming the generally planned number of activities, without taking into account the resources necessary for single implementation (e.g. the discrepancies between the labour intensity of the implementation-degree inspection of the Safety Management System and, e.g., inspection ride – in the calculations the single-activity value was assumed in both cases).