Resource Tag: RAILWAY SUICIDE

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This letter to the editor describes a case of Bell’s paralysis brought on by the psychological trauma suffered by a train driver when a man completed suicide by jumping in front of his train. (1 ref)

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For the 2005 Railway Strategic Safety Plan, please see SIEC #2005-0705

This report investigates railway crime in its broadest context. The authors present details of the level of risk to passengers, the workforce, & members of the public from crime. Recent trends are identified in order to highlight areas of changing risk, which are affected by the changing behaviour of the public. The report also identifies […]

For more information, please see SIEC #2005-0703

The theme of this Conference was “Injuries, Suicide & Violence: Building Knowledge, Policies & Practices to Promote a Safer World”

The theme of this Conference was “Injuries, Suicide & Violence: Building Knowledge, Policies & Practices to Promote a Safer World”

This presentation provided a review of best practices for suicide prevention on transit properties. The Toronto (Ontario) Transit Commission has pursued an active suicide prevention strategy since the early 1970s & has seen the annual rate of completed & attempted suicides steadily decline. The first strategic element in the suicide prevention strategy was to control […]

This presentation discussed a study of patterns of train suicides in The Netherlands with emphasis on the changes of the daily pattern in the course of the year. All verified train suicides, 2830 cases, over a 15-year period were included in the study. Suicide rates were investigated as a function of clock time, as a […]

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The author argues that collaboration in suicide prevention is necessary between 5 distinct areas of society: public health, community, administration, media, & industry. In this document, he summarizes a discussion of the industrial world, examining the collaborative roles of 4 industrial sub-categories: human resources, the drug industry, public transport, & administration.

Published in “Suicide Risk & Protective Factors in the New Millennium,” ed. by O T Grad

This journal provides data on the total number of railway suicides & suspected suicides in Britain from 1991 to 2001. Profiles of the people that died by suicide on the railway are presented. Males comprise 84% of these deaths, ranging from 21 to 50 years of age. The progress of the Suicides & Open Verdicts […]

Based on they hypotheses of some authors that reports on suicide in media can lead to imitation, the author surveyed all articles of reported suicides (not only subway-suicides & -attempts) in the two largest Austrian daily newspapers & analyzed them in connection with the subway-suicide-scene. The findings suggest that if media reports should have an […]

This article reviews questions regarding responsibility for suicide prevention initiatives in relation to a recent report on railway suicides in The Netherlands. Some questions that are explored include: Who is responsible for taking initiatives? Who is responsible for applying measures to reduce the number of suicides? Who pays for the application of procedures to decrease […]

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