Yellow Book Training: Asset management and maintenance
Lloyd's Register is renowned for its Yellow Book training and this two-day course focuses, in particular, on how Engineering Safety Management (the Yellow Book) applies to safety-related maintenance and asset management.
Objective
The Yellow Book is the UK railway's handbook on Engineering Safety Management (ESM). If you are involved with changes to the railway, you need to have an understanding of the Yellow Book.
We are renowned for our Yellow Book training, with our experts able to draw upon years of experience developing, teaching and applying its key principles.
This two day course provides line managers, engineers and others involved with railway maintenance and asset management with a detailed understanding of the Yellow Book 4 Engineering Safety Management (ESM) fundamentals. It sets out how these can be exercised by following good maintenance practices that also support the achievement of non safety-based goals.
At the end of the course there is an examination, with certificates being awarded to successful candidates.
Content
Maintenance and asset management can be looked at as a number of interlocking processes performed over a variety of different timescales, ranging from immediate response to a major failure through to long-term management decisions.
This course explores these processes and also explains how good maintenance practices can support the achievement of non-safety-based-goals. Classroom lectures are interspersed with a series of short practical exercises allowing attendees to gain hands-on experience of the techniques involved.
Attendees will be provided with comprehensive handouts which will provide valuable ongoing reference points for when back in the work environment and all attendees will also receive a personal copy of Yellow Book 4.
By attending this course attendees will gain:
An understanding of the need to underpin safety-related maintenance and asset management with a systematic approach to Engineering Safety Management
Recognition of how the Yellow Book 4 fundamentals can help
Experience of relating the Yellow Book 4 fundamentals to practical maintenance and asset management processes
The skills to use Yellow Book 4 to benchmark existing maintenance and asset management processes and apply its key principles in the preparation of new or revised processes.
At the end of the course there is an examination, with certificates being awarded to successful candidates.
Structure
Module 1: Background and concepts
- Policy, regulations and standards
- Rationale behind ESM
- Key safety terminology and concepts
- History of the Yellow Book
- Comparing the management of safety in railway projects and maintenance
Module 2: Day-to-day maintenance
- The maintenance cycle
- Day-to-day maintenance activities related to a Plan-Do-Record-Review cycle
- Safety planning, reducing risk, records and monitoring risk fundamentals
- Linking the phases of the safety lifecycle to the four Yellow Book 4 fundamentals
- Exploring the Yellow Book 4 guidance for these fundamentals
- Exercise: applying the fundamentals to improve the maintenance regime
Module 3: Maintenance management and planning
- Effective day-to-day maintenance and the need for a framework of management and (longer-term) planning
- A systematic approach to controlling risk: ensuring maintenance procedures are effectively focused on risk
- Introduction to the guidance in the maintenance application note
- Adapting Yellow Book project guidance maintenance
- Systematic review of the maintenance regime
- Longer-term aspects of the safety planning fundamentals
- How systematic processes and good practice support the safety planning fundamentals
- Configuration management: best practice techniques and why it is so critical to maintenance
- Practical ways of increasing the overall effectiveness of configuration management for legacy systems
Module 4: Organisational issues
- Setting organisational goals
- Defining safety responsibilities
- Instilling a safety culture
- Competence and training
- Communicating safety-related information and co-ordination
- Working with suppliers
- Interfacing with projects
Module 5: Assurance
- Evidence of safety and acceptance fundamentals
- Introduction of Yellow Book 4 guidance for the fundamentals of projects and maintenance
- Independent professional review
- Commissioning, performing and writing up an audit or assessment
Module 6: Going forward
- Applying Yellow Book 4
- Course examination
Who should attend?
Engineers and managers who are required to use their judgement in the preparation or execution of railway maintenance and asset management processes.
Previous experience
Attendees should have a general understanding of engineering and project management principles and practice.
Duration
Two days
Also available
Engineering Safety Management (Yellow Book) - Engineers' overview (Two days)
Engineering Safety Management (Yellow Book) - Senior managers’ overview (Half-day)