Evaluating rail suicide prevention measures

Ryan, Brendan; Wronska, Urszula; Stevens, Ian

Abstract

Many rail safety interventions are implemented without sufficient consideration of the effectiveness of the intervention or the degree to which the intervention has been implemented. This paper describes a programme of work to develop, test and implement a simple framework and associated research tools that can be used by rail staff to collect better data for evaluating the effectiveness of rail suicide prevention measures. Problems that have been encountered in attempting to embed this framework within organisational processes are described.

Citation

Ryan, B., Wronska, U., & Stevens, I. Evaluating rail suicide prevention measures. Presented at 6th International Human Factors Rail Conference

• Conference Name: 6th International Human Factors Rail Conference
• End Date: Nov 9, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Sep 26, 2017
• Publication Date: Nov 8, 2017
• Deposit Date: Nov 7, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 8, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Evaluation; rail suicide; engagement with industry
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/893309
• Related Public URLs: https://www.rssb.co.uk/railhf2017
• Contract Date: Nov 7, 2017