Railway Environmental Forum October 2010

Thursday 14 October 2010

Railway Environmental Forum on Thursday 14th October at The Talent Academy - Virgin Trains Training Facility, Crewe.

The theme for this forum is “Incident Response” and we have an interesting and interactive day planned. The Virgin Trains Talent Academy is a unique training facility, where Virgin Trains staff receive hands-on training in emergency incident response.

As well as our line up of key note speakers in the morning, there is the opportunity to take part in responding to a mock environmental incident on the railway, an evacuation procedure from a train and an in-depth tour of the Virgin Trains Response Suite.

The agenda will be as follows:

Time Event
10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.15 Introduction Harriet Coles, ESG
10.30 1st speaker – Ian Cotter, Understanding the Environment of the SPAD - What Can Your Rail Head Tell You? - Ian Cotter Associates Ltd.
11.00 Questions
11.10 2nd speaker – Jonathan Hume, ’Incident Response – The Invensys Rail Approach’ - Invensys Rail Ltd
11.35 Questions
11.45 3rd speaker – Miles Martin (ESG) & Peter Nicholas, 'Surface Remediation for Contaminated Rail Ballast' - Waste Management Total Solutions
12.20 Questions
13.15 Lunch
14.15 Willie Michaels (Virgin Trains) - Incident Response Suite
14.00  Tour of Facility & Pendolino Coaches
 15.15  Close – Tea & Coffee

To confirm attendance at the next forum or recommend a colleague to attend, please respond to forum@esg.co.uk . We look forward to hearing from you.

 

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