Emergency manager of Deutsche Bahn
Emergency managers at Deutsche Bahn are employees of Deutsche Bahn AG who act as operational commanders in the event of dangerous incidents and other emergencies. The route network of DB Netz AG is divided into 180 emergency districts in order to ensure that an emergency manager can be available as a specialist advisor for the operations manager after 30 minutes at the latest. The emergency manager is usually through the operations center built in-house emergency control center alerted.
The 10-day basic training takes place in the "Emergency Management Training Center" in Fulda . This instruction must be repeated every two years.
Around 900 employees work as emergency managers.
Preliminary consideration
Damage events in the area of Deutsche Bahn can require the use of the police , fire brigades , rescue services and disaster control units such as those of the technical relief organization . In contrast to the road, however, the special features and the function of railway operations are usually unknown to the emergency services. So are z. B. the braking distance of a train is considerably longer than that of a motor vehicle. Railways cannot be cordoned off or secured in the same way as roads.
Expert advisor
The head of operations of the security is related to the person of the emergency manager, an employee of DB AG to the side of both knowledge of railway operations has as can perform or induce, protective measures for working on the ground forces. The emergency manager is the head of operations for the area of DB AG, in this function a specialist advisor for the head of operations in the danger prevention department and thus a member of the operations management.
tasks
In the event of an incident, the essential tasks of the emergency manager include a. ensuring the protection of the on-site emergency services against dangers from railway operations, ensuring or carrying out the railway earthing of the overhead contact line , as far as this is necessary, as well as providing technical advice to the operations manager for questions related to railway operations. With emergency management, Deutsche Bahn fulfills its statutory mandate to contribute to fire protection and technical assistance . His area of responsibility includes resuming railway operations in whole or in part during or after an event. In doing so, he coordinates with the on-site operations management team. He also has to deal with operational and sometimes technical irregularities and determine the causes for them. If police investigations take place in connection with an event, he has to support them. Other tasks, such as B. the requirement of the railway's own emergency technology, can arise in the event of an incident.
cooperation
The control centers of the rescue services have topographic maps on a scale of 1: 25,000 with the data on the railway infrastructure, such as B. route, route kilometers, tunnels, bridges, etc. are available in order to be able to reach the railway systems if necessary. An operational alarm and hazard prevention plan (BAGAP) is available for tunnels. This is coordinated with the fire protection departments . Emergency management employees take part in practical and theoretical training courses at the state fire brigade schools , the THW and the state and federal police . Particular attention is drawn to the dangers in rail operations and the special features of the rolling stock are addressed. A dangerous goods training train is available for practical training. Exercises are carried out at irregular intervals with the participation of the rescue workers . In difficult cases, e.g. B. Hazardous goods accidents , the emergency manager arranges the use of further specialist advisors or emergency services from industry or TUIS . In the event of serious accidents in rail operations, the emergency manager can fall back on the six rescue trains operated by Deutsche Bahn. In the event of an incident, emergency trains as well as rail or truck-mounted cranes are available. Some of these are staffed by THW staff.
staff
The emergency managers are mainly recruited from the operational managers of the local organizational units of DB Netz (e.g. district managers, department heads and their representatives) and perform the task of emergency management in their district on a daily basis in addition to their main activity.
equipment
The emergency manager has an emergency vehicle that is marked as DB AG emergency management and is equipped with a special signaling system. This enables the emergency manager to make use of the right of way in accordance with Section 38 of the StVO in order to reach the scene of the incident as quickly as possible, provided the conditions for this are met. The equipment of the vehicle includes a. Devices for earthing the overhead line , maps, digital cameras , hand lamps, etc.
Equipping these vehicles with a blue rotating beacon is legitimized in accordance with Section 52 Paragraph 3 No. 3 StVZO . ("[...] motor vehicles that are recognized as accident emergency vehicles of public transport companies with track-guided vehicles, including trolleybuses, according to the vehicle registration certificate [...]"), with which they must also be equipped with emergency horns according to Section 55 (3).
Labelling
At the scene of the incident, the emergency manager wears orange high-visibility clothing (weatherproof jacket or high-visibility vest) with the "Emergency manager" imprint on the back and a white hard hat. He can also identify himself with a photo ID (corporate ID card of DB AG with the imprint "Emergency Manager").
Operations management at other transport companies
In the case of transport companies that primarily handle urban traffic, such as the BVG or the DVG , the comparable tasks are performed by the operations supervision. Like the emergency manager, the operations supervisor has an emergency vehicle with special signals (blue light).
See also
Web link
- Emergency management - Danger prevention at Deutsche Bahn Deutsche Bahn AG, emergency management
Individual evidence
- ^ Ril 423 DB AG
- ↑ Ina Kresse: Alarm for the emergency manager: When the train comes to a standstill. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . March 5, 2016, accessed on March 7, 2016 (German).