02-01-2013, 02:26 PM
A quote from the most recent RSSB Annual Safety Performance Report:
Risk to passengers
Four passengers died in separate incidents, all at stations. Of the four, three occurred at the platform-train interface (PTI) and one was a fall on an escalator. Based on RSSB’s Safety Risk Model (SRM), the PTI is the greatest source of passenger fatality risk. Most of the fatality risk does not arise from boarding or alighting, but is due to the people falling from the platform, or coming into contact with trains while standing too close to the platform edge.
Risk to passengers
Four passengers died in separate incidents, all at stations. Of the four, three occurred at the platform-train interface (PTI) and one was a fall on an escalator. Based on RSSB’s Safety Risk Model (SRM), the PTI is the greatest source of passenger fatality risk. Most of the fatality risk does not arise from boarding or alighting, but is due to the people falling from the platform, or coming into contact with trains while standing too close to the platform edge.
PJW