EN 16704-1:2016

European foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Common principles
5 Principles of risk assessment
6 Hierarchy of Safety Measures and parameters
   for the five railway risks
7 Working in tunnels
8 Designing infrastructure
9 Safety documentation and information
10 Use of personal protective equipment
Annex A (normative) - Requirements and conditions
        to manage safety measures
Annex B (normative) - Parameters in risk assessment
Annex C (informative) - Matrix of main responsibilities
Annex D (informative) - Noise levels of machines
Annex E (informative) - Warning and remembering
        devices
Annex F (informative) - National speed limits for trains
        approaching work sites
Annex G (informative) - Functions within the process
        'warning'
Annex H (informative) - Model for safety plan on railway
         risks
 Annex I (informative) - Guideline for the decision of
         blocking the working track in relation to
         the use of portable equipment
 Annex J (informative) - Process and documentation about
         disconnection of fixed electrical
         equipment
 Annex K (informative) - Examples for the possibility of
         intruding into the vicinity zone of the
         fixed electrical equipment
 Annex L (informative) - Key aspects of relevant EU Directives
 Bibliography

This European Standard provides requirements and measures to deal with the significant and specific railway risks during works on or in proximity of the track and with common principles for the protection of fixed and mobile work sites with trains and/or machines circulating on the working track and trains circulating on the adjacent track(s). Railway risks and protection measures for access and egress to/from the work site are considered in the same way as railway risks and protection measures for work itself.This European Standard is applicable to all operations related to work activities on rail guided systems. Infrastructure of metro, tram and other light rail systems is excluded from the scope ).The following specific railway risks are taken into consideration:—Risk 1: Personnel being struck by a train or injured due to wind drag from a train on open working track (safety of the worker);NOTE 1Risk 1 includes injuring of a worker by machines, material or equipment being struck by a train on the working track.—Risk 2: Personnel being struck by a train or injured due to wind drag from train on adjacent track (safety of the worker);—Risk 3: Personnel being struck by machine or train on blocked track (safety of the worker);—Risk 4: Machines, material or equipment being struck by a train on the adjacent track (safety of the operation/safety of the worker);—Risk 5: Personnel being electrified or electrocuted by fixed electrical equipment (safety of the worker).NOTE 2Risk 5 includes hazards caused by pantographs of passing trains.This European Standard also provides requirements to the process of installing basic preventive measures when planning new infrastructure or installing corrective measures when adapting existing infrastructure.This European Standard may be extended to third parties when it is considered appropriate and reasonable by the infrastructure manager, if one or more of the five significant risks described inside this standard, arise as a result of their activities in proximity of the track.