Unitary Management of the Forces in Case of Railway Accidents

in the vicinity of sources which may amplify the dangers, as gas stations, railway complexes meant for processing wagons that are loaded with dangerous goods), fuel depots, inhabited areas etc; - the details on the railway section: embankment, height, near the railway bridgehead, the existence of the contact line of 27 KV; - the details on the state of the land in the railway area: strong earth, gravel, earth with poor resistance, softened by water, etc. - the condition and the type of rolling stock (locomotive, wagon type…………, motor unit): crack in the container, gas release or vapours, rollover, scattering cargo on the ground, fire, explosion, etc., if the situation allows that; - the incipient phase of a fire; - if there have been injured or killed people; - the atmospheric conditions, visibility; - the wind direction and speed on the ground; - the proportion and the consequences of the danger; - the persons and goods in danger, if they are injured persons; - if there have also been informed the other liable factors involved in the intervention to the railway accident (Environment Guard, Prosecutor’s Office, etc.); - the request of certain railway cranes and other specific means when there is necessary (helicopters, bags for body transport, transmitters, projectors with their own power supply sources); - the place of the accident and how to access the area; the accessibility to reach on-site of the accident; - the number and the type of vehicles involved and whether they can be move out. In particular cases there shall be mentioned whether the means of transport involved is derailed or overturned in the water or in the rough land. CFR Network Statement - 2026 ANNEX 32 Version: 15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024 Pag: 8 / 20  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România - risk factors: heat, dangerous substances, weather (weather conditions); - which railway lines are out of order; - what traffic line have been affected by the event (blocking traffic or speed reduction); - if there was a collision of high impact (speed >80 Km/h); B) Response and on-site arrival stage By the order of the Director General of the railway company in the area where the accident took place a commission shall be enabled in accordance with the instructions no. 003/2000 which shall arrive at the place of the accident. The arrival of the commission to the place of the accident shall be achieved in the shortest time possible. C) Intervention Stage By specialized personnel, there shall be taken measures for the interruption of electricity supply to the contact line and shortening it by linking it to the ground, the completion of this action being communicated to the supervisor of the intervention, the access of other freight or passenger train sets shall be denied in the area of the accident, as well as the removal of the means of transport in the area adjacent to the place of the accident. CI) Rapid Intervention Safety measures on-site: - the commission’s members arriving first on-site shall urgently provide the following measures: • evacuation, isolation and denial of access to the other traffic participants without creating panic, in areas meant to provide protection, at a distance of 200 meters ahead of the area where the accident occurred; • the provision of the security on-site in order to preserve the clues, evidence and traces that could lead to the establishment of the causes and to prevent further expansion of the damages and havoc; • to request, where appropriate, restoration of telephone communications that was cut off and the provision of lighting on-site. There shall be worn reflective vests. • isolation of the area and the denial of access; • positioning towards the wind direction. C2) Information The commission’s members arriving first on-site shall provide additional information upon the request to the dispatchers of the institutions involved in the intervention: - the exact place of the accident and if the means of transport involved are located in a difficult area in point of accessiblility; - access paths to the crash site; - the number and type of vehicles involved and whether they can move out of the place; CFR Network Statement - 2026 ANNEX 32 Version: 15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024 Pag: 9 / 20  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România - the number of wounded and the nature of the injuries in the event of (potential) victims; - the risk factors: heat, dangerous substances, weather (weather conditions); - the railway line (the railway section) that is blocked; C3) Other tasks - to protect (secure) the intervention teams, victims and other road users; - to maintain free the access paths for the intervention services; - to alert the112 Dispatcher with readiness, if there is a risk of environmental pollution; - to transmit the information to the mass media for the users of means of transport (such as detours for diversion of traffic). D) Recovery stage Specialized services within the company shall establish the technical requirements for the rolling stock involved, in order to resume the traffic in terms of safety. In the event the situation requires and there is possible, there shall be replaced the rolling stock involved in the accident in order to ensure the continuation of the journey for the passenegers. A.2 C.F.R. MARFA A) Alert stage Identification of the railway accident depending on its type shall be subject to the procedure referred to in the "Instructions for the prevention and investigation of railway accidents and events no. 003/2000 , annex 2, drawn up by the Ministry of Transports-AFER, approved by OMT no. 210/14.03.2000. The personnel of the railway undertaking, who learned about the occurrence of the railway event, shall immediately notify the management of the division to which it belongs. The Head of the division (or his substitute) besides the personnel set down at the art. 32 (1) of the Instructions for the prevention and investigation of railway accidents and events no. 003/2000", prepared by the Ministry of Transport - AFER, by the OMT no. 210/14.03.2000, shall take the necessary measures to advise the Supervisor on duty of the Production Commercial Centre of the railway transport undertaking, which on his turn shall inform hierarchically every person in charge up to the Director General. For the railway incidents produced in the direct line, the train personnel shall inform the nearest railway subunit of the existing dangers, providing the following information: - the exact place and time of the incident; - how to access the area; - type of cargo uploaded in the wagons in danger, according to the orange marks on the wagons (UNO no. and the figure for the level of danger) and/or the official name of the transport recorded in the consignment note; CFR Network Statement - 2026 ANNEX 32 Version: 15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024 Pag: 10 / 20  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România - the condition and the type of rolling stock (locomotive, wagon type…………, motor unit): crack in the container, gas release. or vapours, rollover, scattering cargo on the ground, fire, explosion, etc., if the situation allows that; - information about the ground; - if there have been injured or killed people; - atmospheric conditions, visibility; - wind direction and speed on the ground; - proportion and the consequences of the danger; - goods in danger, If there are information that following the incident resulted: damaged means of transport which have as result fumes or gases, there are fires or explosions, or there is a risk that the incident could degenerate, the advisor on dangerous goods transport and/or civil protection inspector shall be advised. There shall be also informed the consignor or the consignee of the goods in order to make available the operative team. B) Response and on-site arrival stage By the order of the Director General of the railway company in the area where the accident took place the EMERGENCY CELL shall be enabled in accordance with the procedure laid down in the “Rules for the prevention and the investigation of the railway accidents and incidents” no. 003/2000 and the Rules for organization and operation. The arrival of the emergency cell members to the scene of the accident shall be achieved in the shortest time possible. C) Intervention Stage The intervention team coordinator, along with the heads of the railway subunits shall determine and provide the first steps that must be taken to limit the impact of the accident. They can be as follows: - withdrawal and stopping the manoeuvre in the area; - ceasing all operation in the railway or in the entire station, if necessary; - in case of accidental closing of the line/lines from the station or of the current line there shall be taken signalling actions on the ground in accordance with the regulations in force; - shutting down the railway facilities that could amplify the danger; - moving the intervention teams to the railway accident. Training and equipping the railway staff forming teams to avoid exposure to the dangers of the hazardous goods action; - closing and ensuring the loading/unloading doors (domes); - collaborating with the trading companies in the area in order to slop the products, if the leak cannot be stopped; CFR Network Statement - 2026 ANNEX 32 Version: 15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024 Pag: 11 / 20  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România - isolation of the wagon/wagons involved in the accident on the line established by the PTE, by towing if possible or isolating it on the line on which the accident occurred by towing the other wagons of the train and/or in the vicinity of the train; - securing the area in danger and where appropriate the isolation and the evacuation area; D) Recovery stage The beginning of the relief operations of the railway accidents consequences with human victims can be done only with the approval of the President of the Commission, after consulting the representatives of the other institutions present at the scene of the accident (Police, Prosecutor's Office, AFER, etc.). For the accidents produced on the railway infrastructure of CFR, which do not require means of intervention, the railway undertaking shall ensure the security of goods, means of transport and their further transportation to the destination. A.3 3. 112 DISPATCHER The tasks of the 122 Dispatcher are stipulated in the user’s manual of 112 index and consist in: a) The request of the essential details from the person reporting the incident on: - the place of the accident and the details about it; - the danger zone, the area of distribution; - the vicinity of the area in danger (if it is in the vicinity of sources that can amplify the danger); - the proportion and the consequences of the danger; - how to get there; - if there are injured persons and the number thereof; - the estimated size of the damage and what is all about; - the location and the correct positioning; - existence of risk factors such as fire, spreading of toxic products, explosion (evolution of gas or vapour, fire, explosion, etc.); - which is the phone number of the person reporting the accident and if he is involved in the accident. b) Sending the intervention crews on-site: ➢ Crews qualified in first aid/emergency care by land and by air, if: • there are suspected injured persons; • there are injured persons. ➢ County Operational Centre within I.S.U.J., if: CFR Network Statement - 2026 ANNEX 32 Version: 15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024 Pag: 12 / 20  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România • there is suspected or confirmed the existence of people injured; • there are suspected fires; • there are suspected leakages of dangerous substances from the means of transport; • there are people locked in the means of railway transport; • there occurred railway accidents which started fires. ➢ The Railways Transport Police, always. ➢ The Railway Infrastructure Manager, if following the occurrence of the accidents: • there were produced damages or deterioration of the railway infrastructure and/or adjacent facilities or of the railway signalling systems; • there is necessary to ensure certain variants of detours for traffic deflections; • there is necessary to require instruments for special intervention, enabling infrastructure in order to restore circulation. c) Collecting data of operational interest from the employees on-site: - which is the number of vehicles involved and of the persons injured, their condition; - what is the status of traffic (blocked or not); - other data of operational interest. d) Communicate to the other dispatchers data of their interest: - 112 dispatcher shall inform the other dispatchers about how are operations deployed at the scene of the accident; - through the County Operational Centre the information shall be permanently provided to the other dispatcher on how the intervention operations are deployed. The information submitted shall compulsorily highlight the aspects regarding: - the forces on-site ; - the place of the accident; - the number of victims; - the pollution of the environmental factors; - the number of the railway means of transport involved in the event; - the number of the technical means used for the intervention; - the traffic condition; - other data of interest. CFR Network Statement - 2026 ANNEX 32 Version: 15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024 Pag: 13 / 20  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România e) To record and evaluate the information received and to manage the incident: - to keep track of elapsed time from referral to the intervention; - to monitor the way in which the intervention takes place; - to report the accident. 4. THE GENERAL INSPECTORATE FOR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS THROUGH THE COUNTY INSPECTORATES FOR EMMERGENCY SITUATIONS The tasks of ISUJ-COJ are as follows: A) Alert stage of COJ shall be informed: - about the access path to the place where the accident took place; - if there are traffic jams; - if there are injured or restrained persons (the team intervention is necessary for extrication); - if there has been started a fire (or there are triggered any fires); - if there is reported the location of the explosive device or bomb; - if there is reported the presence of hazardous substances/wind direction (or there is a suspicion that there might be dangerous substances). If the answer is affirmative there shall be established: • how many and what types of cars are involved in the accidents; • there are labels or other visible bookmarking (markings) which are applied on the sides of the vehicles involved in the accident, and if the answer is affirmative, what numbers are indicated on the orange labels; • the number mentioned above, the hazard identification number and the UNO number, on the lower side. - if there are spills of dangerous goods or other substances and in what quantity; - if there were produced damages at the contact line and there is necessary to interrupt the electricity supply to the contact line; - there can be noticed any vapours or smoke; - if there is a fire, what colour is the smoke; - if there are crushed railway transport vehicles; - if there is an accident that has caused significant damage to the environment; - if there is an accident involving a bus (passenger transport) with victims; - if there is the case of bumping an obstacle (column, pillar, railing) from which resulted casualties; CFR Network Statement - 2026 ANNEX 32 Version: 15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024 Pag: 14 / 20  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România - if the police and medical crews rushed to the crash site. - informs CON about the situation B) The intervention stage There sha