Abstract
Based on the international vulgate safety risk managing theory, the Guangzhou Metro Corporation (GMC) summarizes the standard system of safety risk management in metro rail transit project, integrating with criterion files about project on safety risk management promulgated by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China (MOHURD), according to the project practice. The result of application indicated that this system, which has been popularized in several other Chinese cities, effectively guaranteed personnel and project safety, and promoted the safety risk managing level of project participators in the same time.
Highlights
Metro rail transit projects are growing rapidly in China
From 1999 to 2010 media reports, ninety-two accidents happened in metro rail transit projects, sixtyeight people died from these accidents and direct economic losses stood at least 4.1 billion Yuan
Every party relevant to the project should participate in the safety risk management, such as the government, the metro rail transit projects owners, the design institutes, the construction companies, the supervision companies and the third party monitoring companies
Summary
Metro rail transit projects are growing rapidly in China. According to statistics, there are fifteen cities operating metro up to May 2013 with the total mileage of 2416 kilometers, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are three of the top ten cities that have operating mileage in the world. Every party relevant to the project should participate in the safety risk management, such as the government, the metro rail transit projects owners, the design institutes, the construction companies, the supervision companies and the third party monitoring companies.
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