Improving Safety through the Safety Action Plan 2017

「Stations with 100,000 or more boardings and alightings: platform barriers installed; installation rate 62%」

「Specifically, as platform safety measures, the company plans to install platform screen doors at stations covered by the barrier-free fare system with 100,000 or more daily boardings and alightings, and platform screen doors or platform safety screens at stations with fewer than 100,000 daily boardings and alightings, with completion targeted by fiscal 2032. Of this amount, installation costs of approximately ¥40 billion are expected over the five years through fiscal 2027.」

「Based on its firm determination never to allow an accident like the Fukuchiyama Line train accident to happen again, the Group is sincerely responding to those affected and working to improve safety.」

「During the fiscal year, the company continued installing platform screen doors and advancing other platform safety measures, including platform safety screens that detect customers falling from platforms and notify train crews and station staff, as well as measures to address height differences and gaps between platforms and trains. Specifically, with the Osaka-Kansai Expo also in mind, platform screen door operation began on all platforms at Nishikujo and Bentencho stations, and work was also carried out at those platforms to reduce height differences and gaps between platforms and trains.」

「Based on its firm determination never to allow an accident like the Fukuchiyama Line train accident to happen again, the Group is sincerely responding to those affected and working to improve safety.」

「Specifically, as platform safety measures, the company plans to install platform screen doors at stations covered by the barrier-free fare system with 100,000 or more daily boardings and alightings, and platform screen doors or platform safety screens at stations with fewer than 100,000 daily boardings and alightings, with completion targeted within 10 years. Of this amount, installation costs of approximately ¥40 billion are expected over the five years through fiscal 2027.」

「Going forward, based on the JR West Group Long-Term Vision 2032 and Medium-Term Management Plan 2025, the company will create social and economic value by prioritising safety improvements in its railway business, revitalising the mobility services business and restoring it to pre-COVID levels as soon as possible, and actively expanding its life-design business.」

「Going forward, based on the JR West Group Long-Term Vision 2032 and Medium-Term Management Plan 2025, the company will create social and economic value by prioritising safety improvements in its railway business, revitalising the mobility services business and restoring it to pre-COVID levels as soon as possible, and actively expanding its life-design business.」

「Based on its firm determination never to allow an accident like the Fukuchiyama Line train accident to happen again, the Group is sincerely responding to those affected and working to improve safety.」

「Based on its review of Railway Safety Action Plan 2022 and safety management issues arising from the major transport disruption caused by heavy snow in January, the company formulated Railway Safety Action Plan 2027 in March to implement initiatives for further improving safety.」

「In light of the fact that our Group caused the Fukuchiyama Line train accident on 25 April 2005, we continue to respond sincerely to those affected and make unremitting efforts to improve safety. Based on our determination never to allow another such serious accident to occur, we are advancing initiatives to improve safety and establish safety management systems from both the hardware and software perspectives under the final-year “JR West Group Railway Safety Action Plan 2022.”」

「In light of the fact that our Group caused the Fukuchiyama Line train accident on 25 April 2005, we continue to respond sincerely to those affected and make unremitting efforts to improve safety. Based on our determination never to allow another such serious accident to occur, we are advancing initiatives to improve safety and establish safety management systems from both the hardware and software perspectives under the final-year “JR West Group Railway Safety Action Plan 2022.”」

「Even amid the difficult conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company will steadily advance Railway Safety Action Plan 2022, its top priority and final-year plan, and pursue a higher level of railway safety. As platform safety measures, it continued installing platform screen doors and taking other measures at major stations on the Sanyo Shinkansen and heavily used stations on conventional lines.」

「Even amid the difficult conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company is steadily advancing Railway Safety Action Plan 2022, its top priority, and pursuing a higher level of railway safety.」

「Even amid the difficult conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company will steadily advance Railway Safety Action Plan 2022, its top priority, and pursue a higher level of railway safety.」

「In March, the company formulated “Realising Railway Safety for the Future,” with the aim of carrying forward the reflection and lessons learned from the Fukuchiyama Line train accident and achieving safe railway operations over the long term. As platform safety measures, it continued installing platform screen doors and taking other measures at major stations on the Sanyo Shinkansen and heavily used stations on conventional lines. Operation began at some platforms at Okayama, Hiroshima and Kobe stations, and at all platforms at Tsuruhashi and Takatsuki stations.」

「As platform safety measures, the company continued installing platform screen doors and taking other measures at major stations on the Sanyo Shinkansen and heavily used stations on conventional lines, and began operation at some platforms at Okayama, Hiroshima, Tsuruhashi, Takatsuki and Kobe stations.」

「Even amid the difficult conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company will steadily advance Railway Safety Action Plan 2022, its top priority, and pursue a higher level of railway safety. As platform safety measures, it continued installing platform screen doors and taking other measures at major stations on the Sanyo Shinkansen and heavily used stations on conventional lines.」

「Even amid the difficult conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company will steadily advance Railway Safety Action Plan 2022, its top priority, and pursue a higher level of railway safety. As platform safety measures, it continued installing platform screen doors and taking other measures at major stations on the Sanyo Shinkansen and heavily used stations on conventional lines.」

「The company advanced various initiatives to achieve the targets of Railway Safety Action Plan 2022. While the effects of these initiatives have begun to emerge in railway personal injury accidents involving customers and level-crossing accidents, incidents presenting challenges have occurred in relation to occupational accidents, and further reduction is needed in transport disruptions caused by internal factors to achieve the targets. The company will conduct an in-depth analysis of the causes and rapidly implement fundamental measures as an organisation.」

「Platform screen doors began operation at some platforms at Kyobashi, Sannomiya and Osaka stations (October–December last year) Platform screen doors began operation at some platforms at Okayama Station (Shinkansen) (December of the same year)」

「Platform screen doors began operation at some platforms at Kyobashi and Sannomiya stations (October).」

「Under Railway Safety Action Plan 2022, the Group continues to build on its safety initiatives aimed at establishing systems that ensure safety throughout the organisation and a culture that puts safety first.」

「In relation to torrential-rain countermeasures, intensive slope disaster-prevention measures in the Keihanshin area have reduced operating restriction time on the affected lines by approximately 45% compared with before the measures were implemented. In addition, under the plan through fiscal 2022, the company has been extending slope disaster-prevention measures to sections of the Biwako, JR Kyoto and JR Kobe lines, mainly used by limited express and Special Rapid Service trains, and expects operating restriction time to be substantially reduced after the work is completed.」

「Under Railway Safety Action Plan 2022, the Group is advancing initiatives to build systems that ensure safety throughout the organisation and foster a culture that puts safety first.」

「In relation to torrential-rain countermeasures, intensive slope disaster-prevention measures in the Keihanshin area have reduced the level of operating restrictions on the affected lines by approximately 45% compared with before the measures were implemented.」

「In February 2018, the company formulated the JR West Group Railway Safety Action Plan 2022 and began initiatives to prevent serious accidents and occupational accidents, with the aim of achieving a further improvement in safety levels.」

「Safety-related investment progressed as planned. In particular, to improve platform safety, the company continued installing platform screen doors and taking other measures at stations with 100,000 or more daily boardings and alightings. It also advanced earthquake and tsunami preparedness and torrential-rain countermeasures to address increasingly severe natural disasters. In addition, in December last year, it introduced an integrated safety management system that manages safety information and risk assessment information in a single database, accessible for viewing and analysis at all workplaces.」

「Safety-related investment also progressed steadily as planned. In particular, to improve platform safety, which is closely related to customer safety, the company continued installing platform screen doors and taking other measures at stations with 100,000 or more daily boardings and alightings. It also advanced earthquake, tsunami and torrential-rain preparedness measures to address increasingly severe natural disasters.」

「To improve platform safety, which is particularly important for customer safety, the company formulated and progressively implemented a plan to install platform screen doors at stations with 100,000 or more daily boardings and alightings, and continued installing remote security cameras.」

「As a result, the target of zero train accidents involving customer fatalities or injuries has been maintained since the first year, and progress has generally been steady across all indicators, including level-crossing accidents.」

「We are advancing initiatives to improve platform safety from both the hardware and software perspectives. Platform gates have so far been installed at 11 stations across conventional lines and the Shinkansen. Going forward, taking government policy into account, we will install them sequentially at 14 stations with more than 100,000 daily boardings and alightings, as well as at stations with frequent falls from platforms or contact accidents involving trains. We are also bringing forward the installation schedule for tactile paving with inner-side lines by 3 years, and are working toward installing it at stations with more than 10,000 daily boardings and alightings by the end of fiscal 2017.」

「We are proceeding with the installation of platform gates. They began operation in March this year at Platform 1 at Kyobashi Station and Platforms 1 and 6 at Takatsuki Station. We are also installing gates at Platforms 6 and 7 at Osaka Station and Platform 2 at Kyobashi Station, targeting commencement of operations around spring 2017, and will continue initiatives covering both hardware and software.」

「Regarding the derailment-prevention guards being installed on the Sanyo Shinkansen, installation is under way between Himeji and Hakata, following completion last fiscal year between Shin-Osaka and Himeji.」

「Under the “Safety Action Plan 2017,” we will work to reduce the railway personal injury accidents at platforms, level-crossing accidents and transport disruptions caused by internal factors identified as numerical targets, while also addressing increasingly severe natural disasters, strengthening risk management and pursuing further safety improvements.」