scope:

SCOPE AND APPLICATION

This Procedure covers the checking of all activities carried out by the RT1A Contractor under the Infrastructure Maintenance Contract and recording and follow up of corrective actions.

The scope of this Procedure includes all Progress Reports, Progress Meetings, checks on Contractor's management systems, activities and end products.

PURPOSE

The purpose of this Procedure is to establish a monitoring system and corrective actions follow up which shall ensure that the RT1A Contractor is satisfactorily maintaining Railtrack's infrastructure. This Procedure outlines the roles and responsibilities of those parties involved in the management of the monitoring system and corrective actions.

Monitoring shall be performed on the basis of a statistically determined regime prioritised by the assessment of risk. The monitoring system shall check, as a minimum :

• Railtrack's infrastructure assets are fit for purpose,

• that Contractual and Technical compliance is being achieved,

• the Contractors adherence to responsibilities set out in their Safety Case,

• that Railtrack Plc's commercial interests are being safe-guarded.

The minimum requirements to provide confidence to Railtrack that the Contractors' Management Systems are effective and their End Products are acceptable are detailed in Procedure RT/RCM/RT1ACON/007 "Generation of RT1A Contract Check Plans." 

This Procedure amplifies the requirements as shown in the IDEF Element Process Map Box 5.2.2 "Measure Contractors Compliance" and Box No. 5.2.3 "Review Contractors Compliance".