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Art. 1 Subject matter
1 This Ordinance regulates the notification and safety investigation of incidents: a. involving railway undertakings and federally licensed cableway, automobile, trolleybus and inland waterway navigation undertakings, and on private sidings (public transport); b. in civil aviation within Switzerland and involving Swiss aircraft abroad; c. in maritime navigation involving maritime vessels entered in the Swiss Maritime Shipping Register. 2 It regulates the organisation and tasks of the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB).
Para. 1 — Amended by No I of the O of 13 Sept. 2024, in force since 1 Jan. 2025 (AS 2024 511).
Art. 2 Purpose and subject matter of safety investigations
1 Safety investigations serve to prevent further incidents. 2 The subject of safety investigations are the technical, operational, human, organisational and systemic causes and circumstances that led to the incident.
Art. 2 — Amended by No I of the O of 13 Sept. 2024, in force since 1 Jan. 2025 (AS 2024 511). Para. 1 — Amended by No I of the O of 13 Sept. 2024, in force since 1 Jan. 2025 (AS 2024 511).
Art. 3 Incidents
Incidents are defined as follows: a. in public transport: events set out in Articles 15 and 16; b. in civil aviation: accidents and serious incidents as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 996/2010; c. in maritime navigation: events that require a Flag State to hold an investigation under Article 94 number 7 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982.
let. b — Amended by No I of the O of 13 Sept. 2024, in force since 1 Jan. 2025 (AS 2024 511). let. c — SR 0.747.305.15
Art. 4 Public transport: special terms
In public transport: a. accident means any event resulting in a fatal or serious injury, considerable property damage or a major accident as defined in the Major Accidents Ordinance of 27 February 1991; b. serious incident means any event that would have led to an accident had it not been prevented by automatic safety precautions; c. fatal injury means any injury sustained by a person in an accident which results in his or her death within 30 days of the date of the accident; d. serious injury means any injury sustained by a person in an accident the treatment of which necessitates hospitalisation for more than 24 hours; e. minor injury means any injury that necessitates out-patient treatment; f. considerable property damage means property damage that is a direct consequence of an accident, the value of which exceeds 50,000 francs in the case of cableways or 150,000 francs in the case of all other forms of transport; g. substantial incident means any incident that interrupts the operat
let. a — SR 814.012 let. f — Amended by No I of the O of 13 Sept. 2024, in force since 1 Jan. 2025 (AS 2024 511). let. i — The RID is not published in the AS or in the SR. A separate publication including amendments may be obtained from the Bundesamt für Bauten und Logistik, Verkauf Bundespublikationen, 3003 Bern, or directly from the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF), www.otif.org. let. i — SR 0.742.403.1 let. i — SR 0.742.403.12
Art. 5 Civil aviation and rail transport: Equivalence of terms
For the correct interpretation of Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 and Directive (EU) 2016/798, which are referred to in this Ordinance, the following terminological equivalences apply: Term in Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 and Directive (EU) 2016/798 Term in this Ordinance witnesses persons who can provide useful information
Art. 5 — This Article is only of relevance to the Swiss language versions. Amended by No I of the O of 13 Sept. 2024, in force since 1 Jan. 2025 (AS 2024 511).