can societal collaboration prevent railway suicide?
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Can societal collaboration prevent railway suicide?. Helena Rådbo, Karlstad University Maria Hedqvist, Trafikverket. Content. The Swedish Railway system Railway suicide Restrail Pilot project Societal collaboration Results this far and discussion. Railway in Sweden. Trafikverket - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Can societal collaboration prevent railway suicide?
Helena Rådbo, Karlstad UniversityMaria Hedqvist, Trafikverket
Content• The Swedish Railway system• Railway suicide• Restrail• Pilot project• Societal collaboration• Results this far and discussion
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Railway in Sweden
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• Trafikverket• 14700 km• 80% electrified• 560 stations• 6.2 billion passenger km• 110 fatalities 2010
Suicide in Sweden
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• 17 out of every 100.000 citizens• Decline with exception of age 15-24 years• Vision Zero
– Killed in the transport system– Suicides
Railway suicide in Sweden
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• 7% of all suicides occur in the transport system (all modes)
• 70% of the fatalities in the railway system• 5% of the total no. of suicides each year
Restrail• Co-funded EC FP7• Coordinated by UIC• 17 partners – 12 countries• Reduce the occurrence of suicide and
trespass and service disruptions• Analysis and identification of cost effective
prevention and mitigation measures
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Pilot project
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• Measures assessed as promising or recommended
• Project already in process• Important to evaluate and not just believe
that it works!• Purpose is to describe
the collaboration andto measure theeffects
Societal collaboration to prevent Railway suicides
• A model on how stakeholders should act• Involves all threats of suicides outside of a
persons home• Involved stakeholders
– The Police authority– The Emergency rescue services– SOS Emergency services– The Ambulance services– The psychiatric care units– The Transport Administration
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Participants and their responsiblity• The Police Authority
– always alerted to the threat of suicide• The Emergency Rescue service
– provided by municipalities• SOS Emergency
Service – is the organization
that first receives an alarm
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Participants responsiblity• The Traffic Control Center
– is alerted to introduce a temporary stop of the traffic on the identified site
• The ambulance service – is dispatched to help with transportation and
medical expertise• The Transport Administration
– Accident site manager is called to the site to make sure that the track is safe for S & R
• Psychiatric care– are informed of threats of suicide and are
prepared to receive the suicidal person
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Workflow• Anyone can initiate a traffic stop• If an exact location – traffic stop • If a larger search area – temporary speed
reduction until the person is found• S & R conducted by police, rescue services
and ambulance services• Ambulance transport the person to
psychiatric care
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Outcome• August 2012- May 2013
– 13-18 train stops executed each month– Average stoping time – 15 minutes– 66 people were helped to psyciatric care– 15 deceased– 28 traffic stops due to crime
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Important collaboration• It is the system that reacts
– not the person in need of help• 66 persons was helped to psyciatric care
– What if 10% acutally would have commited suicide? Then almost 7 persons were saved
• Continue evaluation with interviews
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