{"id":1735,"date":"2020-09-04T02:41:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2020-09-04T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:12:00","slug":"ser-initiatives-to-enhance-rail-safety-for-safe-train-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"SER: Initiatives to enhance rail safety for safe train operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Safety Seminars and discussions are organised on a regular basis for awareness of field officers, supervisors and safety related staff<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kolkata:<\/span> South Eastern Railway<\/strong> has taken initiatives to enhance rail safety in train operations and other related activities. Improvement in rail safety is a continuous process and SER has taken constant endeavour to improve the rail safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inspections by officers and safety inspectors have been undertaken at regular intervals on all railway infrastructure with a view to identify weak areas in asset maintenance, safety procedure and systematic defects and to provide ways and means to prevent accidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Besides, periodical safety drives have been launched from time to time to raise safety consciousness amongst staff and to streamline safety aspects including maintenance of assets. Apart from this, safety measures have been undertaken as under:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">i.\u00a0Railway tracks replaced through track renewal works which is an ongoing process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">ii.\u00a0Digital machines are being used for testing which are reliable. This digital technology is extensively used in the railway to detect flaws in rails and welded fractures in advance and take remedial steps to avoid accidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">iii.\u00a0Electronic Interlocking System with Centralised Operation of Points and Signals are being provided to eliminate human errors and to replace old Mechanical Systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">iv.\u00a0Train protection and warning system is a proven technology which has been operationalized in railways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">v.\u00a0Proliferation of LHB Coaches that have better features.\u00a0 Important mail\/express trains of SER are being run with LHB Coaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">vi.\u00a0All unmanned level crossings have been eliminated in SER.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Moreover, Safety Seminars and discussions are organised on a regular basis for awareness of field officers, supervisors and safety related staff.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safety Seminars and discussions are organised on a regular basis for awareness of field officers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koo_publish_custom_meta":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/railsamachar.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SER-Safety2.jpg?fit=1200%2C710&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}