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Community Safety
Community Safety Groups
The RSSB's National Programmes, Railway Operations team facilitates cross-industry
groups that are focussed on understanding the risk from inappropriate public behaviour
and sharing good practice that will help to manage the risk.
Each of the groups is allocated to a programme manager from the team who provides
an administrative service to the group and who will also manage projects and tasks
arising from the group's activity.
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Community Safety Steering Group
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Purpose
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Agree national priorities and strategies aimed at reducing the risks and costs posed
by crime, disorder and other forms of inappropriate public behaviour.
Endorse the cross-industry partnership delivery framework and monitor effectiveness.
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Chaired
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RSSB
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RSSB Programme Manager
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Maurice Wilsdon ( Maurice.Wilsdon@rssb.co.uk
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Membership
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Director level representatives of the main industry sectors:
ATOC, British Transport Police, Freight Operators, Network Rail, RSSB and Train
Operating Companies
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Outputs
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Clear priorities , cohesive and productive cross-industry partnerships.
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Logistics
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Meets every 3 months
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Rail Personal Security Group
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Purpose
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To raise the profile of personal security on the railway and to reduce the impact
of assaults on passengers and all those who work on the railway. To fulfil this
role the group will:
- Identify and share good practice in countering the risks from violence towards staff
and customers
- Provide guidance and tools for local managers
- Commission appropriate national campaigns
- Contribute to the content and objectives of the Railway Strategic Safety Plan and
the British Transport Police Annual Policing Plan
- Recommend topics suitable for research and development by RSSB
- Act as a stakeholder for elements of the RSSB public behaviour research programme
(see http://rssb.co.uk/research/allsearch.asp
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Chaired
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Train Operating Company representative
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RSSB Programme Manager
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Alan Davies (Alan.Davies@rssb.co.uk)
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Membership
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ATOC, British Transport Police, Department for Transport, Home Office, London Underground,
Network Rail, Office of Rail Regulation, Passenger Focus, RSSB , Train Operating
Companies, Unions (RMT, TSSA).
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Outputs
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Build a framework of measures for the industry to achieve longer term improvements
in personal security.
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Logistics
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Meets every 2 months
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For more information about RPSG and it's projects please visit
http://www.rssb.co.uk/national_programmes/personal_security_group.asp
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European Level Crossing Research Forum (ELCRF)
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The ELCRF is an informal group that brings together key rail and highway professionals
from European countries, to exchange information and provide experiences and lessons
for improving safety management of level crossings.
Engaging with highway authorities, who see level crossings as a small component
of road safety risks, will support a greater understanding of the high risk to rail
of road user (mis)behaviour and develop shared risk control activity as a bi-modal
issue.
The forum was started as an initiative arising from the 8th Level Crossing Safety
and Trespass Symposium held in Sheffield, in 2004. The first meeting was held in
London in 2005. Subsequent meetings have been hosted in a different country each
time, in order to:
help promote a closer understanding of the level crossing issues in the host country;
enable international delegates to experience, first hand, rail safety developments
and practices in the host country; and
present an opportunity for road and rail safety specialists in the host country
to be exposed to an international perspective on level crossing issues.
The following are examples of ELCRF’s core subject areas:
Evaluating the risk at level crossings
Economics of level crossings
Engineering (road and rail)
Cooperation and partnership
Education and Human Factors
Enforcement
The forum is currently chaired by Jürgen Menge of the Department for Commerce
and Transport in the Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, and administered by Alan Davies
of RSSB. The UK is represented by RSSB (Michael Woods), Network Rail, ORR(HMRI)
and Translink (Northern Ireland).
For further information please contact alan.davies@rssb.co.uk |
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Road-Rail Interface Safety group (R-RIS)
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Purpose
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The role of the Road-Rail Interface Safety group is to steer the work of the rail
industry in increasing awareness of the hazards and risk at level crossings, bridge
strikes and other incursions by motor vehicles onto the railway, arising from inappropriate
behaviour.
To examine public policy and make recommendations to simplify and consolidate regulatory
matters covering safety at level crossings, including road traffic and highway matters,
planning guidelines for development and the effective prosecution of offenders in
the interest of public safety.
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Chaired
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Network Rail
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RSSB Programme Manager
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Alan Davies (Alan.Davies@rssb.co.uk)
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Membership
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ATOC, British Transport Police, County Surveyors Society, Department for Transport
Network Rail
Office of Rail Regulation, PACTS, RSSB
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Outputs
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The R-RIS will adopt the approach of the “5 Es”, that is:
Enabling : The provision of resources through people, procedures and systems
to allow the other 4Es to be effective.
Education : Increasing public awareness of the dangers of level crossings
and educating pedestrians and road vehicle drivers how to use them correctly.
Engineering : The protection fitted to level crossings through lights,
horns, barriers, telephones and signs together with research into other innovative
means of increasing safety.
Enforcement : The use of laws to prosecute those who endanger
themselves or others by misuse of crossings.
Evaluation : The evaluation of the impact of any initiatives it
puts in place for the improvement of safety at level crossings.
The group will act as an interested stakeholder in relevant research projects carried
out by RSSB. R-RIS is also participating in the Law Commission's review of Level
Crossing legislation.
(see http://rssb.co.uk/research/allsearch.asp
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Logistics
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Meets every 3 months
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For the details of the Level Crossing Information Forum, 3rd June 2009 please visit:Level Crossing Information Forum
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Community Safety Communications Group
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Purpose
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Develop and deliver Community Safety communication projects including Annual Railway
Community Safety Forum, Trackoff Railway Safety Education website and other Community
Safety Initiatives
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Chaired
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RSSB
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RSSB Programme Manager
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Kerry Dolan (Kerry.dolan@rssb.co.uk)
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Membership
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British Transport Police, Network Rail, Office of Rail Regulation, RSSB , Train
Operating Companies
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Outputs
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Deliverables from each project
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Logistics
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Meets every 2 months
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National Suicide Prevention Working Group
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Purpose
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To work with partners to help prevent suicide on the rail transport system
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Chaired
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Detective Chief Superintendent Mark Smith, BTP
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RSSB Programme Manager
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Alan Davies (alan.davies@rssb.co.uk)
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RSSB Secretary
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Kerry Dolan (kerry.dolan@rssb.co.uk)
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Membership
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Representatives of the main industry sectors and external organisations involved in suicide prevention:
British Transport Police, Network Rail, National Institute for Mental Health in England, ORR, RSSB, Samaritans, Train Operating Companies, TfL, University of Oxford (Centre for suicide prevention).
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Outputs
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Identify, develop and deliver a collection of measures to assist the industry in addressing the issues of suicide on the railway
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Logistics
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Meets every 3 months
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For more information, please contact: kerry.dolan@rssb.co.uk
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Community Safety Partnership Groups
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Purpose
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In accordance with agreed national priorities, develop and deliver local level action
plans aimed at reducing the risks and costs posed by crime, disorder and other forms
of inappropriate public behaviour - including trespass, vandalism, graffiti, assaults,
suicides and level crossing misuse.
Agree and co-ordinate the contributions of each partner agency, thus avoiding confusion,
duplication and waste of resources.
Ensure each partner agency concentrates on its strengths.
Develop links to local Community Safety Partnerships where considered beneficial.
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Chaired
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Network Rail – route director or area general manager
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Managed
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Network Rail
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Membership
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British Transport Police, Freight Operating Companies, Office of Rail Regulation,
Transport for London, Network Rail, Passenger Transport Executive, Train Operating
Companies and other local partners
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Outputs
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Local work programmes
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Logistics
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As decided locally
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Geographic scope
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Network Rail routes
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