Guideline for Culvert Safety Management

October 2024

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Part A - General
  • 0.1 - Definitions
  • 0.2 - Scope
  • 0.3 - Application
  • 0.4 - Responsibility
• Part B - Qualifications and designation of responsible persons
  • 1.1 – Scope
  • 1.2 – Culvert safety management responsibility
  • 1.3 – Railway engineer
  • 1.4 – Culvert inspector
  • 1.5 – Designating individuals
• Part C - Culvert inspection
  • 2.1 – Scope
  • 2.2 – Culvert inventory
  • 2.3 – Types of inspections
  • 2.4 – Culvert inspection procedures and frequency
  • 2.5 – Culvert inspection records
  • 2.6 – Review of culvert inspection reports
  • 2.7 – Higher level review
  • 2.8 – Culvert risk identification
• Part D - Designing, constructing, and maintaining culverts 
  • 3.1 - Scope
  • 3.2 – Procedures for designing, constructing, and maintaining culverts
  • 3.3 – Replacing and repairing existing culverts
• Part E - Documentation, records and evaluation of CSMP
  • 4.1 – Scope
  • 4.2 – Monitoring and evaluating the CSMP
  • 4.3 – Verifying culvert inspections
  • 4.4 – Documents and records
• Part F - Requirements of Section 11 - Railway Safety Act
  • 5.1 – Scope
  • 5.2 – Engineering work related to culverts
  • 5.3 – Engineering work performed by persons who are not Professional Engineers

 

Guideline for culvert safety management
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