Blog pause

Dear blog reader

I am taking a pause from this blog in the near future. It is after all quite complete.

The background for the first blog posts was a course, "Introduction to EN 50126", I held for a broad group of employees in railway companies.

Immediately, after the first blog posts, I had positive expressions from colleagues in- an outside Europe. It whetted my appetite to continue - so thank you for your comments and mails!

At the present moment, I think the blog contains most significant subjects. All is collected in the "Quick Guide to EN50126".
Maybe, I will start again.

In the meantime, please take a 'Tour de safety management'.

Best regards

Troels Winther

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Welcome

Welcome to this blog about the Cenelec standard EN 50126 / IEC 62278.

EN 50126 and IEC 62278 are identical and published by Cenelec and IEC respectively.

EN 50126 is about Safety Management Systems in Railway Projects.

There exists two closely related standards:

EN 50128 / IEC 62279 are about Safety Software Management.
EN 50129 / IEC 62425 are about proving the safety of a product in a Safety Case.

They are originally Cenelec standards, mentioned in most European railway contracts.
They are not particularly readable. You can get a little wiser by reading e.g. the "Guide to EN 50126" (TR 50126-2).



A selected number of the posts on this blog have been compiled and linked into a "Quick guide to EN 50126". These blogs summarizes experiences achieved from:

- Cross-european railway projects,
- teaching in Safety Management and
- being a Cenelec Working Group member.

Other posts are inspired by readers who wrote a mail or just a subject that was discussed that day.

Feel free to use the blog!

Click here for jumping to the first chapter >> 1.1 Definition of Safety Management

Troels Winther



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