RISC Ltd support Virgin and Pendolino Expansion Project

Paul and David continue to assist Virgin Rail Projects Ltd as they supervise and manage aspects of the safety approval process for the additional Pendolino trains and vehicles that are being supplied by Alstom, and procured by Angel Trains.

Modern rolling stock projects have aspects that are within the scope of European Directives for Interoperability and their associated 'Technical Standards for Interoperability'. Other aspects of a 'new trains' project come in the scope of the UK ROGS Regulations. These two high-level requirements mean that Notified Bodies are required, as well as safety verification processes that may or may not require an Independent Competent Person depending on novelty and risk.

For situations such as this, clients benefit by developing documents that are used to describe the approval processes, including project and safety strategies; written safety verification schemes; and project quality plans. For complex projects, documents created to control different aspects may contain overlaps or have gaps, so a document map is a useful tool to help all project participants understand the parts that are relevant to them, and help to create a set of compatible documents that can be easily maintained.

David Greenway