Railway Safety in Estonia -
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- Annual Report 2011
OLE has been active in promoting public railway safety
since 2004, focusing on communicating railway safety
information among general public.
Estonian Railways, on
the other hand, has organised for several years railway
emergency response training courses for rescue officers.
In 2011 the management of Estonian Railways proposed
to OLE supplementing its training programme by adding
the training course “Basic Railway Safety Training for
Emergency Responders”. We gladly accepted the proposal
and started to prepare the course in cooperation with
Estonian Railways’ safety experts.
Adding an additional subject to OLE’s training programme
widens the target group of the organisation, allowing
us to address the emergency personnel arriving first
to accident sites. We do our best to prepare emergency
responders so that they would be ready to make right
decisions while at accident sites, saving their own lives
and the lives of the persons involved in accidents.
The training focuses on the uniform preparation of
emergency personnel in case of railway accidents
and cooperation with the representatives of railway
companies. After taking this programme under the
auspices of OLE, we started to share railway safety
information also with the police, paramedics and the
personnel of alarm centres and police control centres.
The test course we organised last year for
police officers of the Northern Prefecture
received extremely positive feedback. I
would also like to point out the active
involvement of the police in preparing
OLE’s respective training materials.
Since April 2011 we have organised
13 emergency responder trainings, 7 of which were for
rescue personnel (127 participants), 4 for the police (59
participants) and 2 for paramedics (12 participants).
Altogether we have provided training for almost 200
emergency responders.
The feedback from the emergency responders attending
the training indicates that this is a vital training course
that we would hopefully never need.
The feedback from the emergency responders
attending the training indicates that this is a vital
training course that we would hopefully never need.
MARIUS
KUPPER
Project Manager
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME
OLE presentations for emergency responders
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