Presentation
The UIC Safety Database (UIC-SDB) is an internet application organised within the Safety Platform activities. It is continuously maintained and developed, according to the necessities introduced by safety managers and EU Bodies.
The Safety Database offers a high-speed access to the information on accidents and permits a live monitoring of railway safety. Results are expected in maintaining and increasing the current activity of benchmarking, analysis of trends and follow up actions as well as in helping to give a better understanding of each railway’s performance in relation to other transport modes.
The Safety Database is particularly focused on:
- Provide Members network with statistics on railway accidents and permit them a detailed analysis of safety statistics based on knowledge about their own circumstances.
- Indicate the most critical areas where specific attention could result in a decrease in the overall incidence of accidents in Europe.
- Complement national network Safety Management Systems, by providing a benchmarking with other networks performance.
- Interpreter and validate the accidents distribution curves thus provide a general overview of the community’s exposure to risk. Identify a set of values, limits of interventions for the improvement of the safety levels of the community.
- Provide a basis for setting appropriate safety targets for the future.
- Assist European projects with benchmarking and analysis on accidents.
Last update: 23 January 2012
