Beyond Procedures: Bringing Engineered Safety Controls to the Railyard – Webinar with Railway Age 9/22/26

Railroad crossing signal next to text promoting a Railway Age webinar on engineered safety controls, scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 2 p.m. ET, sponsored by Railserve.

Learn how technology with engineered controls adds another layer of protection to established railyard switching safety practices. Attendees will learn how system-backed verification, shared real-time condition awareness, and defined-scenario automatic protection can help teams identify risk sooner and act with greater confidence.

Industrial switching operations are built around trained teams, strong standard operating procedures (SOPs), and disciplined coordination. But railyards are fast-paced operating environments, and conditions can change quickly during active moves. Limited visibility, radio congestion, competing demands, and incomplete verification can create gaps at the moments when decisions matter most.

Using examples from high-consequence areas such as derails, switches, foul zones, crossings, and shove moves, experts will examine how an integrated safety system can reinforce move-by-move operating discipline while reducing reliance on radio communication and visual verification alone.

This webinar covers:

  • Where risk is most likely to concentrate during industrial switching operations.
  • How real-world conditions can create gaps in procedural safeguards.
  • The difference between procedural verification, system-backed verification, and defined-scenario automatic protection.
  • How technologies with engineered controls can strengthen—not replace—SOPs and crew expertise.
  • How integrated technology safeguards can improve condition awareness at critical go/no-go decision points.

Watch and listen to the webinar now with our on-demand recording. This is an approximately 30-minute webinar. Thank you for tuning in!

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