Personal Track Safety, the Glossary
Personal Track Safety (PTS) is a system of safer working practices employed within the United Kingdom designed to ensure the safety of railway workers who have to work on or near the line.[1]
Table of Contents
17 relations: Audiometry, Blood pressure, Controller of site safety, Electrocution, Flag signals, Hard hat, Hearing test, Network Rail, Occupational safety and health, Office of Rail and Road, Overhead line, Railway electrification, Rolling stock, Stopping sight distance, Third rail, United Kingdom, Urine test.
- Rail transport in the Republic of Ireland
- Rail transport in the United Kingdom
Audiometry
Audiometry is a branch of audiology and the science of measuring hearing acuity for variations in sound intensity and pitch and for tonal purity, involving thresholds and differing frequencies.
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Blood pressure
Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood against the walls of blood vessels.
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Controller of site safety
A Controller of Site Safety or COSS is a person qualified by the British civil engineering company Network Rail to ensure safe practice for work occurring on or near railway tracks and infrastructure.
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Electrocution
Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body.
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Flag signals
Flag signals can mean any of various methods of using flags or pennants to send signals.
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Hard hat
A hard hat is a type of helmet predominantly used in workplace environments such as industrial or construction sites to protect the head from injury due to falling objects, impact with other objects, debris, rain, and electric shock.
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Hearing test
A hearing test provides an evaluation of the sensitivity of a person's sense of hearing and is most often performed by an audiologist using an audiometer.
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Network Rail
Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain.
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Occupational safety and health
Occupational safety and health (OSH) or occupational health and safety (OHS) is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work (i.e., while performing duties required by one's occupation).
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Office of Rail and Road
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the economic and safety regulation of Britain's railways, and the economic monitoring of National Highways.
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Overhead line
An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams.
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Railway electrification
Railway electrification is the use of electric power for the propulsion of rail transport.
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Rolling stock
The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, freight and passenger cars (or coaches), and non-revenue cars.
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Stopping sight distance
Stopping sight distance is one of several types of sight distance used in road design.
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Third rail
A third rail, also known as a live rail, electric rail or conductor rail, is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway track.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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Urine test
A urine test is any medical test performed on a urine specimen.
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See also
Rail transport in the Republic of Ireland
- CIÉ
- Commission for Railway Regulation
- Dublin Area Rapid Transit
- Dublin Suburban Rail
- Dublin–Navan railway line
- Great Southern Railways
- Heritage railways in the Republic of Ireland
- Iarnród Éireann
- Limerick Suburban Rail
- Personal Track Safety
- Rail Users Ireland
- Rail transport in Ireland
- Railway Procurement Agency
- Sallins Train robbery
- Stradbally Woodland Railway
- Trainbow
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Rail transport in the United Kingdom
- Brandling Junction Railway
- British Rail
- British Transport Police
- British railway brake van
- British railway technical manuals
- Confidential Incident Reporting & Analysis System
- Darnley Lime Works Tramway and Mineral Railway
- Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms
- Heritage railways in the United Kingdom
- History of rail transport in the United Kingdom
- Multiple working
- Personal Track Safety
- Rail transport in England
- Rail transport in Great Britain
- Rail transport in Northern Ireland
- Rail transport in Scotland
- Rail transport in Wales
- Railway detectives in the United Kingdom
- Railway enthusiasts societies in the United Kingdom
- Railway warrant
- Route crime
- Sandite
- Structure of the rail industry in the United Kingdom
- The wrong type of snow
- Train overcrowding in the United Kingdom
- Train reporting number
- Trainbow
- Travel safe officer
- UK Notified Bodies
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Track_Safety
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