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Publish Date : 15-Jun-2015

After floating a tender last week, Oman Rail has announced that it will appoint an Independent Safety Assessment (ISA) consultant to deliver a safe and dependable national rail network.

The winning firm will be a competent agency that will offer independent safety assessment and safety audit services spanning the length of the 2,135-km national rail network.

Oman Rail says the main task of the chosen ISA, is to offer assurance that safety targets and safety needs are defined and achieved for a specific railway product, system or network and that allied statutory undertakings have been addressed.

John Lesniewski, chief commercial officer at Oman Rail, said, "(The ISAs) make formal categorised observations, identify non-conformances for a defined activity and will make recommendations and propose corrective actions to enable a project to progress to the next phase. They are free of commercial influence and outside of line management and through rigorous, life-cycle based safety assessment and safety audit, they provide confidence to clients, contractors, suppliers and regulators that risks imported onto the railway network are reduced to be As Low As is Reasonably Practicable (ALARP).

He added, “We are establishing a culture of safety in the Oman Rail from the get-go."

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