Improvement notices 2009

Copies of improvement and prohibition notices can be found on our Public register. Guidance on searching ( PDF 2135 Kb) the Public register is available.

Prior to 1 April 2006, the Health and Safety Executive enforced health and safety legislation for railways and you will find relevant notices on the HSE website.

Company and notice number	Brief description	Issue date	Compliance date	Result
Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd 302308383	Road vehicles and/or trailers may become grounded on your level crossings and then be struck by a train, exposing train passengers, train crew and the vehicle occupants to high levels of risk due to inadequate design controls and inspection arrangements in place to ensure that the vertical curvature of the carriageway remains within safety critical limits, so far as is reasonably practicable.	23 Nov 2009	31 Aug 2010	Complied
London Underground 041109/LU/QC	The floor of the traffic route from Cannon St into the underground station is not of a construction that is suitable for use by passengers or employees by virtue of the risks to the safety of passengers and employees created by the rising step across the Cannon Street entrance to the station.	4 Nov 2009	26 Nov 2009	Complied
Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd 302229746	Work in Ledbury tunnel was not planned, managed and monitored so as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety of workers in the possession site.	14 Oct 2009	14 Dec 2009	Complied
Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd 302197664	The fault management process is not  being resourced and managed to ensure that off-track faults and reports are being suitably controlled, monitored, reviewed, actioned and closed out so that any risks identified are being adequately controlled.	24 Sep 2009	8 Jan 2010	Complied
Michael J Watkins 302191363	Failure to put in place a safe system of work for vehicles using the Cross Brook Farm level crossing.	22 Sep 2009	21 Oct 2009	Complied
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited ARC210909/01	There is no suitable backup battery power supply for this relay room to enable signals to continue to operate effectively during power outages.	21 Sep 2009	28 Feb 2010	Complied
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited ARC210909/02	There is no suitable backup battery power supply for this relay room to enable signals to continue to operate effectively during power outages.	21 Sep 2009	28 Feb 2010	Complied
Midland Railway Trust Ltd 3021878856	Failure to have in place an established and maintained safety management system, that meets the statutory requirements.	17 Sep 2009	31 Jan 2010	Complied
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited 20090916	Insufficient measures to prevent unauthorized persons gaining access to the infrastructure along a mains water pipe.	16 Sep 2009	12 Oct 2009	Complied
Amalgamated Construction Limited 302165046	The dismantling of a signal gantry near Cuckoo Bridge and piling work between Maindee Junction and Usk Viaduct was not planned, managed or monitored in such a way that ensured, so far as is reasonably practicable, the work was carried out without risks to health and safety.	8 Sep 2009	16 Nov 2009	Complied
Total Solutions (Southern) Ltd 302164983	Failure to properly plan or supervise tandem lifting operations concerned with the dismantling of a signal gantry near Cuckoo Bridge within a possession site.	8 Sep 2009	9 Nov 2009	Complied
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited 302153363/IAS	No suitable system to verify, so far as is reasonably practicable, that basic visual track inspections are carried out within the maximum specified  intervals, and therefore missed or incomplete inspections can go unnoticed and remedial actions not be taken to reduce the risk of a train derailment.	31 Aug 2009	31 Oct 2009	Complied
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited 302153397/IAS	The system for informing tack patrollers of the extent of an individual basic visual inspection and how it should be carried out does not ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that serious track defects, which could affect the safety of trains, are correctly identified, so that appropriate remedial action can be taken to reduce the risk of a train derailment.	31 Aug 2009	31 Oct 2009	Complied
Blackpool Transport Services Ltd 302145361	Failure to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety of your employees and others, because there are no adequate arrangements to ensure that the operational speed of tramcars is consistent with hazards presented by the environment through which they travel.	24 Aug 2009	1 Mar 2010	Complied
Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd 302139853/JPMcG	Failure to provide a safe system of work at various “Red Zone” track patrolling and track maintenance sites in Scotland to ensure staff have adequate warning of approaching trains and protect these staff from the risk of being struck by a moving train.	19 Aug 2009	23 Oct 2009	Complied
English Welsh and Scottish Railway International Ltd 2009/08/13/01	Unauthorized access is not being prevented at Allerton Maintenance Depot, Liverpool, so far as is reasonably practicable because there are sections of wall and fence forming the boundary which allow trespassers to gain entry.	13 Aug 2009	10 Sep 2009	Complied
McNicholas Construction Services Ltd LVM/301999862	To revise the arrangements for planning safe systems of work for contractors, subcontractors and others working in possession worksites on Network Rail infrastructure where road-rail vehicles are in use to ensure that all reasonably practicable steps have been taken to organise the site so pedestrians and vehicles can move safety.	8 Jun 2009	16 Nov 2009	Complied
McNicholas Construction Services Ltd LVM/301999855	To revise the arrangements for planning safe systems of work for contractors, subcontractors and others working in possession worksites on Network Rail infrastructure where road-rail vehicles are in use to ensure that all reasonably practicable steps have been taken to reduce risks to your contractors and other who are working on the site.	8 Jun 2009	16 Nov 2009	Complied
London Underground Ltd 4149058	You did not ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety of your employees and others in that you did not provide and maintain a safe system of work for switching traction current off and on in the depot. Adequate precautions, including safety management arrangements, were not taken to prevent traction rails within the depot from becoming electrically charged.	16 Apr 2009	24 Jul 2009	Complied
Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd 301753363	Track drainage at Marks Tey was ineffective due to blockages. Maintenance delivery units do not have adequate arrangements in place for ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, that lineside collector drains and outfalls are adequately inspected and maintained.	21 Jan 2009	31 Aug 2009	Complied
Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd APH/GcG/2009	Some of the protective equipment has not been provided and the crossing was not operated in accordance with the conditions and requirements of the order.	20 Jan 2009	30 Jun 2009	Complied
Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd JHT/NR1/2009	Failing to comply with the Railtrack Cononley Level Crossing Order 1994 and the Railtrack Cononley Level Crossing (Variation No 2) Order 2005, in respect of road markings at the crossing and its operation.	9 Jan 2009	30 Apr 2009	Complied