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April 2024

Working together is the best way to improve safety and health. Our new Rail Health and Safety Strategy builds on previous work and sets out the plan for the next five-years. Drawn from detailed consultation across the industry, it identifies challenges and opportunities for improvement. It covers five key risk areas including public behaviour, operations, asset management, occupational health and safety, and health and wellbeing. You can read more in this month’s newsletter.

Chris Knowles, RSSB Director, System, Safety and Health

What you need to know

A collaborative approach for a healthier, safer future

The new Rail Health and Safety Strategy is all about collaboration, industry taking action, sharing good quality data, and measuring progress.

Read the strategy here

Watch the video

This short video brings you the highlights from the new strategy, its aims and what this means for you.

Watch the video

Collaboration beyond cooperation

The strategy's challenges require a proactive and collaborative approach to managing safety and health risks. See how the industry is already collaborating through the risk groups.

Achieving world-class excellence in health, safety, and affordability

In the latest edition of Horizon magazine we investigate how the Rail Health and Safety Strategy was put together and what it means for you.

Safety reports and updates

Graphic Insights looks at an evidence based approach to risk management

Taking Safe Decisions sets out the framework that rail companies use to keep people safe and meet wider business objectives.

Podcast: Introducing our Annual Business Plan

There are many challenges in rail. In our Annual Business Plan 2024-25, we set out the work we will undertake to help industry address challenges.

Listen here

Read the latest Rail Safety Review

In Rail Safety Review 87, we promote the new Rail Health and Safety Strategy and point readers towards Driving for Better Business’s new Driving for Work policy toolkit. RSSB’s Tony Ellis also discusses the risks associated with retrieving items from the track.

Rail Accident and Incident News

This compilation of news on some of the world’s railway accidents has updates on incidents in USA, Germany and Norway. This month it focuses on freight derailment, workforce safety, level crossings, train operations and infrastructure asset integrity.

Upcoming courses

Non-Technical Skills

4-6 June (London)

Our popular Non-Technical Skills training course, which takes a proactive approach to improving safety performance, is now open for bookings.

We deliver crucial insights, tools, and critical information to demonstrate why integrating NTS into competence management systems, briefing and training programmes improves safety performance.

Book your place

Bespoke Training Courses

(Bespoke)

We recognise that every organisation is different, so we work directly with organisations to develop bespoke courses that meet your business needs.

If you would like to discuss a bespoke training course, remotely or at a location of your choice, please email training@rssb.co.uk. We will contact you and discuss your requirements to understand how we can tailor the course for your target audience.

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Events and webinars

Webinar: want to improve the mental health in your organisation but don’t know where to begin?

13 May 2024, 10-11am

The Railway Mental Health Charter (RMHC) is a free framework for rail organisations or those that work with the rail industry to help promote, manage and support workforce mental wellbeing at work.

Find out more and sign up here

Webinar recordings: The RSSB PTI Risk Assessment Tool

(Recording)

The RSSB Platform Train Interface Risk Assessment Tool (PTIRAT) is free for our members and provides a validated approach for assessing PTI risk aligned with the associated Rail Industry Standard.

Listen to the recording

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