scope:

This guidance applies to anyone with responsibility for any aspect of Civil Engineering asset within LU; and also to anyone engaged in any process that is informed by Civil Engineering asset risk. The scope of the guidance is to enable users to understand:

a. Process responsibilities and accountabilities (Section 3.1 and Section 4).

b. The structure and main elements of the process (Section 3.2 and Section 3.3).

c. How to operate the process and retain a suitable audit trail (Section 3.4).

d. Process outputs and use as reports or as information feeds to other processes (Section 3.5).

e. Interfaces with other risk process and models in LU (Section 3.6).

f. Process elements maintenance and update (Section 3.7).

The document content describes the principles and method applied to evaluate and manage risk to safety and to service loss arising from London Underground Civil Engineering assets excluding those currently managed by Tube Lines on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly Lines.

Purpose

The purpose of this Guidance is to describe a process that can be used to identify, record, assess and report risk to safety and to service loss presented by the Civil Engineering asset. The guidance describes the main elements of the framework, operation of the process, and how outputs are used to report risk or communicate to other processes within LU.