UIC recently organised the second of two online workshops on risk assessments between the experts of the UIC Harmonised Risk Assessment Method for Safety (HARMO COSMERA) Project and the UIC Latin America Safety Taskforce, strengthening interregional cooperation in railway safety. The second session in the workshop series continued previous discussions from the HARMO COSMERA initiative with different UIC Regions on harmonised risk assessments.
The meeting took a transversal approach to how risk assessment is handled on both sides of the Atlantic. An overview of the risk assessment approach in Europe, which is based on the Common Safety Method (CSM), was provided by David de Bustos, from SGS, consultant for the HARMO COSMERA Project. This was followed by a presentation from Francisco Cabrera, UIC Project Manager, on the project itself. Then, the different perspectives in countries across Latin America were explained.
- Risk assessment in Argentina, presented by Alejandro Leonetti, Argentine Railways (Ferrocarriles Argentinos)
- Risk assessment in Chile, Raul Cepeda, Chilean State Railways (EFE)
- Risk assessment in Mexico, presented by Ing Belen Cortes and Daniel Telles, Mexican Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transport
- Risk assessment in Colombia, presented by Jairo Espejo, Lecturer at the Universidad Los Andes in Bogotá
The workshop concluded with a Q&A and general discussion, allowing the participants to share knowledge, compare experiences, and identify future opportunities for collaboration.
Through HARMO COSMERA, UIC is continuing to strengthen harmonisation and improve railway safety across Latin America and beyond, thereby focusing on central topics for the railway community around the world.
