Wales & Western - Civils Examination Services (Structures)

Network Rail’s Structures Asset Management Framework identifies the key threats to the

structure asset portfolio. These threats have identified controls, one of which is the inspection

of the asset.

The Structures Examination Framework (CEFA) primary purpose is to;

(1) Provide expertise at the asset to enable immediate safety risks to be understood and

mitigated

(2) Gather intelligence about how key defects are developing and changing with time

(3) Provide Condition Marking information to allow asset deterioration to be modelled and

wider portfolio issues to be managed.

(4) Provide enough information on the condition of the asset such that when combined with

information from NR’s other risk control processes decisions can be made on the remaining

fitness for purpose of the asset and appropriate interventions to mitigate risks to this fitness

can be planned in an appropriate timeframe