Rail Analysis India June Digital Magazine 2018 | Page 64

66 | Exclusive Interview
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MR. Phillip Barker
Please share your experience in the railway sector
along with working for Rail Safety Consulting
Australia? What are the solutions you are providing to
the railway industry?
Like many others, I started my career at a Government owned
and operated railway. These organisations were large and
presented to an employee all the vital activities associated
with railway operations - train operations, network operations
control, engineering, customer service and of course, safety
management.
Phillip Barker
Director
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From the middle of the 1990s, Australia moved towards open
access and competition which ultimately led to many new or
privatised railway operators and the vertical separati on of
railway network management and train operators.
The move towards privatisation of railways in Australia
presented an opportunity to gain experience in areas that
may not necessarily have been available at a Government
railway. With privatisation came Rail Safety Regulation and
Independent Accident Investigation – two key areas in which I
would further my career and railway experience – as a Senior
Transport Safety Investigator and ultimately as the Director of
Rail Safety Regulation.
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