SMS Basics
What does SMS stand for?
This HBR position is responsible for establishing a process on accountability.
What is the General Manager?
HBR is regulated by this body.
What is Transport Canada's Railway Safety Act?
Who is a railway occurennce initially report to?
What is Rail Traffic Control (RTC)?
What type of written documents must HBR keep as per the Railway Safety Management Regulations?
What is an index of all processes, procedures, methods, and plans, including all records, documentation, and audit reports.
HBR uses this structured and formalized approach to managing safety by proactively identifying hazards, assessing and mitigating risks, and ensuring continuous improvement in safety performance.
What is a Safety Management System (SMS)?
As per HBR's SMS, all _______________ are responsible for understanding and being familiar with the SMS including all processes, plans, procedures, and methods to manage safety in the workplace, including verifying an employee's skills, qualifications, and knowledge, scheduling, remedial action, and ensuring all employees are familiar with safety policies and procedures.
What is all Managers and Supervisors?
These Transport Canada regulations establish the minimum requirements with respect to the safety management system that HBR must develop and implement for the purpose of achieving the highest level of safety in railway operations.
What is the Railway Safety Act under Railway Safety Management System Regulations
What is within 24 hours of the occurrence to the Labour Program.
With respect to the process on a safety policy and communication, what is HBR required to do?
What is communicate its safety policy, and any changes to the policy, to its employees.
An SMS is comprised of these 4 components.
What are processes, procedures, plans, and methods?
As per HBR's safety policy, who is responsible for being fit for duty.
What is all staff?
What needs to be included in HBR's SMS to ensure compliance.
What is a list of instruments relating to railway safety (ie. regulations, engineering standards, rules, exemptions, notices, documents)
How are safety concerns identified within HBR's Safety Management System?
What is conducting analyses on a continual basis to identify trends or repetitive situations based on reports of railway occurrences, internal documentation, injury reports, inspection results, safety hazard reports, complaints, audit findings, etc.
What communication-specific tasks must supervisors and managers comply with regarding HBR's SMS process and procedure for managing railway occurences?
What is providing instructions to employees, notifying proper authorities, complete written documentation for record keeping, send out internal communication and notify staff.
HBR has ______ processes in the SMS as per Part 1 of the Railway Safety Management System Regulations.
What is 12?
As per HBR's safety policy, managers and supervisors have the following responsibilities.
What is 1)Providing a stable foundation of Safety Management Systems that ensures Health, Safety and Compliance is maintained to the highest standards possible, 2) that all workers are trained and given everything they need to do their jobs safely, 3) ensuring employees follow all applicable rules, regulations, policies and procedures that are in place to ensure the safety of themselves, co-workers and the public, and 4) stopping unsafe work, correcting unsafe work conditions and reporting safety hazards.
Where is HBR's list of instruments located?
What is the process folder for ensuring compliance under the SMS files located in the HBR Safety Documents folder?
The followings steps are involved in HBR's procedure for conducting analyses.
What is:
1.Set Meeting to conduct analyses
2.Gather documentation for analyses
3. Review and Discussion
4.Determine if corrective action is required
5.Record findings of analyses
When HBR is required to undertake remedial action to address risks, what communication is involved?
What is HBR Management is required to consult with bargaining agents representing employees and following the risk assessment, a communication must be sent out to all affected employees.
The following processes comprise HBR's SMS.
What is a process for a) Accountability b) safety policy c) compliance, d) managing railway occurrences, e) identifying safety concerns, f) risk assessment, g) implementing & evaluating remedial action, h) establishing targets and developing initiatives, i) reporting contraventions and safety hazards, j) managing knowledge, k) scheduling, and l) continual improvement of the SMS
As per HBR's SMS process for managing railway occurences, the supervisor is responsible for what.
What is determine if there are any injuries to ensure protection of life, send instructions to employees, attend the scene, gather facts, collect documentation, complete record keeping forms and complete corrective actions as necessary.
Who is responsible for verifying that HBR remains compliant with all applicable regulatory instruments?
What is the HBR Safety Manager?
What happens when a change is proposed to railway operations that may affect the safety of the public, personnel, property, or the environment?
What is HBR must conduct a risk assessment?
How is a safety hazard to be communicated under HBR's SMS?
What is directly reported to supervisors, through Site Docs, or AllVoices platform.