Roma, 1 decembre 2006 Meeting between Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and EFRTC Ing. Michele Elia

2 Increase availability of the infrastructure Preserve suitable standards Improvement of the reliability Improvement of the safety Expansion of the infrastructure Main objectives of the infrastructure track maintenance

3 Safety of the circulation Safety of the personnel Quality of the performed track work Suitable productivity Optimization of the time of possetion of the infrastructure Containment of the costs Fundamental requirements

4 4 Requirement for the Release of the safety Certificate to the Railway Enterprises that circulate on the IFN Personal Organization Materiale rotabile Infrastructure Manager Verifies the conformity / Releases the safety Certificate Auditing / Monitoring Inspection Activity Railway Enterprise Attests conformity Possible Prescriptions

5 Analogous requirement are in demand to the Track work Contractors that intend to operate on the national railway infrastructure Fundamental requirement for the safety of the circulation and the personnel

6 6 Criteria required to allow the Trackwork Contractors to operate on the IFN Homologation and registration of the trackwork machines and equipment; Organization of suitable enterprise; Personal with certified competences

7 7 The hinges of the formative system Acquisition and keeping the competences (lose of qualification if the safety activity is not continuously developed or if not permanently updated); Qualification of the instructors (included in the register of the accredited instructors) that develop a fundamental role in the processes of maintaining the competences; Knowledge of the lines and/or of the plants; The outline of the formative activity, of use of the personnel, of sanitary visits, of distribution of the regulation texts, etc.

8 The Disposition 39/2004: the detail 8 It disciplines the qualified system of the maintenance sector of the IFN executive duties of the protection yards (1); guide of the means of work; ARMDITTE; alluminotermic welding P.O.B. ( propaedeutic for all the sectors) Specialistic of 3 ^ category (2) Specialistic of 2 ^ category (2) (2) lists for the sectors IS, ARM. TLC AND YOU I. A. RFI ( 1) Propaedeutic to the drivers of the trackwork machines.

9 The Disposition 33/ It disciplines the circulation of the Contractors trackwork machines. … from the station in the work site (1) … from the work site to the station (1) … within the work site (2) (1) The protection is submitted to the personnel of RFI; if it is possible to connect all the means of work it is enough to have the protection from the personnel of RFI of the first and last trackwork machine. (2) The protection is submitted to the personnel of the Contractor.

10 Review of the Disposition 15/2000: the new physical requirements 10 The declaratoria is for safety activity and not anymore for profile Compatibility of physical requirements for the qualification of personnel for “safety protection of work site" and “driving of trackwork machines" The novelties from 1/1/2007 For the "executive Duties of the P.C". it makes admissible the correction with lenses for the “Drivers of the trackwork machines“. In particular …

11 Established maximum limit (10 years from date of construction) for release of approval certificate for machines coming from UE countries Restrictions for the use of trackwork machines with braking system not suitable for lines with gradient higher then 10 o/oo Strategies of Technical Requirements of trackwork machines running on Rail

12 Qualification of workshops for the periodic controls Completion of Data Base of machines with approval certificate New countersign for a more effective use in exercise of the trackwork machines Study of conformity to the leaflet Strategies on maintaining efficient the machines running on Rail

13 New disposition on qualification and medical visits Constitution of a register of the members of the Committee who release the running certificate of trackwork machines Review of the wagons circulation instructions (unique text) Normative strategies for machines running on Rail

14 Improvement of the competences of the personnel Use of suitable machines and equipment Certification of the performed work Use of materials homologated and certified Inspection activity on the work site Monitoring of the Contractors through the Qualitative index of the Enterprises Quality of the performed work: action lines