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Appendix 1 – Predeparture inspection procedure by other than a qualified car inspector Part I – General1. Short TitleFor ease of references, these rules may be referred to as the “Freight Car Safety Rules”. 2. Scope2.1 These rules prescribe the minimum safety standards for freight cars operated by railway companies subject to the jurisdiction of Transport Canada pursuant to the Railway Safety Act. 3. DefinitionsIn these rules, 3.1 “bad order card” or “home shop card” means a railway company form which is affixed to a freight car to indicate maintenance requirements, but upon which safety defects identified during a safety inspection may be recorded; 3.2 “bad order information system” means any method, computerized or otherwise, by which a railway company can control and protect the movement of a car with defects without the use of a bad order or home shop card; 3.3 “break” means a fracture resulting in complete separation into parts. The term “break” and “broken” are use interchangeably in these rules; 3.4 “captured service car” means a freight car assigned exclusively to transportation between specified points on one railway company; 3.5 “certificate” means a wallet size card which identifies the employee and the task(s) for which such employee is qualified; 3.6 “certified car inspector” means a person who is trained and qualified to perform safety inspections of freight cars pursuant to Section 5.1; 3.7 “cracked” means fractured without complete separation into parts; 3.8 “Department” means the Department of Transport, Surface Group; 3.9 “freight car” means a car designed to carry freight on rail and includes a caboose and a service equipment car; 3.10 “in service” means all freight cars except those which are:
3.11 “person in charge” means a person qualified in accordance with Section 5.1, appointed by a railway company to ensure the safe conduct of an operation or of the work of employees; 3.12 “qualified person” means, in respect of a specified duty, a person who, because of his/her knowledge, training and experience is qualified to perform that duty safely and properly, in accordance with Section 6.2; 3.13 “railway company” means a railway company subject to these rules; 3.14 “railway safety inspector” means a Department of Transport inspector appointed pursuant to section 27 of the Railway Safety Act; 3.15 “safety defect” means any item that is defective on a freight car as prescribed by Part II of these Rules and General Order No. 0-10, “Regulations Respecting Safety Appliance Standards”; 3.16 “safety inspection” means an examination of a freight car while stationary by a certified car inspector or a person in charge as defined herein, to verify that it may be moved safely in a train, and to identify those defects listed in Part II of these Rules and General Order No. 0-10, “Regulations Respecting Railway Safety Appliance Standards”, which may inhibit such movement and require correction; 3.17 “safety inspection location” means a location designated by a railway company where certified car inspectors perform safety inspections; 3.18 “safety inspection record” means a record in hard copy form or otherwise including a computer record which attests that a safety inspection as defined herein was performed; 3.19 “service equipment car” means rolling stock used to house employees at work sites, a material car used for transporting railway maintenance-of-way equipment or for railway company purposes other than revenue service; 4. Application of Safety Inspections4.1 Subject to Part III of these rules, a railway company shall ensure the freight cars it places or continues in service are free from all safety defects described in Part II of these rules, and that such cars comply with General Order No. 0-10, “Regulations Respecting Railway Safety Appliance Standards”. 4.2 A railway car identified with safety defects may be moved to another location for repair including placing a loaded car for unloading, when authorized by a person in charge, who will ensure that:
4.3 The movement of a car with safety defects shall be controlled and protected by the use of a bad order information system, or by the use of a bad order or home shop card. 5. Qualification of Car Inspectors5.1 A railway company shall ensure that its car inspectors are trained and qualified to perform safety inspections of freight cars in compliance with these rules. Car inspectors must demonstrate to a railway company by means of oral or written examinations and on-the-job performance a knowledge and ability concerning safety inspection of railway freight cars. Car inspectors shall be issued a certificate attesting to the employee’s qualifications. 5.2 A railway company shall file with the Department a full description of the training program and criteria used for:
5.3 A railway company shall maintain a record of all employees who have qualified as certified car inspectors. This record shall be made available to a railway safety inspector upon request. 5.4 The certificate attesting to the employee’s qualifications shall be made available to a railway safety inspector upon request. 6. Safety Inspection Locations6.1 Safety inspections shall be performed at locations where trains are made up, on cars added to trains, or when interchanged. Such inspections may occur before or after a car is placed in a train at that location. 6.2 At locations where a certified car inspector is not on duty for purposes of inspecting freight cars, a pre-departure inspection of the train or the cars added shall be performed by a qualified person, as a minimum, for those conditions listed in Appendix 1. Thereafter, a safety inspection will be performed by a certified car inspector at the first safety inspection location designated for that train by the railway company in the direction of travel. 6.3 A railway company shall file with the Department a list of its safety inspection locations and railway schedules, to comply with the requirements of Section 6.1 and 6.2. Any changes to the list of safety inspection locations shall be filed by the railway company with the Department 60 days prior to implementing such changes. 6.4 A railway company shall maintain a safety inspection record for the cars it places in service at each safety inspection location. This information will be retained for 90 days and will be made available to a railway safety inspector upon request. 7. Additional Requirements for dangerous goods cars7.1 Additional inspections of cars carrying goods subject to the “Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992” are required as follows:
8. Railway reporting responsibility8.1 Every railway company shall reply in writing or by acceptable electronic means, within fourteen days, to the Department’s regional office concerned, on the corrective action taken to correct a violation/defect reported by a railway safety inspector. The reply, from an appropriate railway officer, shall also include the freight car initials and number and the date and location of the corrective action taken. Part II – Freight Car ComponentsPart II contains those safety defects which, when present, prohibit a railway company from placing or continuing a freight car in service. Suspension System9. WheelsA railway company may not place or continue a car in service if:
10. AxlesA railway company may not place or continue a car in service if:
11. Roller BearingsA railway company may not place or continue a car in service if:
12. Roller Bearing AdaptersA railway company may not place or continue a car in service if the car has a roller bearing adapter that is missing, cracked, broken, out of place or the wrong size. 13. Plain BearingsA railway company may not place or continue a car in service if:
14. TrucksA railway company may not place or continue a car in service if:
Car Bodies15. Car BodiesA railway company may not place or continue a car in service if:
Draft System16. CouplersA railway company may not place or continue a car in service if:
17. Draft ArrangementsA railway company may not place or continue a car in service if:
Part III – Exclusions and Exceptions to the application of these Rules18. Exclusions18.1 These rules do not apply to the following:
provided that the Railway ensures safe movement of the cars. 19. Exceptions19.1 Except for General Order No. O-10, "Regulations Respecting Railway Safety Appliance Standards", these rules do not apply to railway company service equipment cars, including those which are self-propelled, where not moving as part of a revenue train, provided "RSE" is stencilled or otherwise displayed on each side of each car in clearly legible letters. 19.2 Section 6.1 of these Rules does not apply to freight cars used exclusively in captured service if a railway company:
Appendix 1 – Predeparture inspection procedure by other than a qualified car inspectorAt each location where a freight car is placed in a train and a certified car inspector is not on duty for the purpose of inspecting freight cars, the freight car shall, as a minimum requirement, be inspected for these hazardous conditions:
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