Abstract: In order to strengthen the safety supervision of railway dangerous goods transportation, SWOT was used to study and improve the railway dangerous goods transportation safety management system and improve the improvement measures to enhance the safety management capability. Four aspects such as internal advantages, disadvantages, external opportunities, and challenges were discussed from the current situation of China′s railway dangerous cargo transportation safety supervision, based on SWOT analysis matrix, improvement countermeasures to strengthen safety supervision of railway dangerous goods transportation in China was proposed from five aspects, such as strengthening top-level design, perfecting supervision legal system, strengthening personnel protection, enhancing safety supervision ability and strengthening interest balance mechanism. The research shows that through multi-dimensional improvement of railway dangerous goods transport safety supervision system and system, so as to continuously improve the supervision level, maintain the railway dangerous goods transport safety and stability.

Key words: dangerous goods, safety supervision, strengths weaknesses opportunities threats(SWOT), railway transportation, improvement countermeasures