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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.
Community Safety Steering Group
Purpose |
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. |
Chaired |
RSSB |
RSSB Programme Manager |
Maurice Wilsdon ( Maurice.Wilsdon@rssb.co.uk )
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Membership |
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 |
Clear priorities , cohesive and productive
cross-industry partnerships. |
Logistics |
Meets every 3 months |
Rail Personal Security Group
Purpose |
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 |
Train Operating Company representative |
RSSB Programme Manager |
Alan Davies (Alan.Davies@rssb.co.uk) |
Membership |
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). |
Outputs |
Build a framework of measures for
the industry to achieve longer term improvements in personal security. |
Logistics |
Meets every 2 months |
For more information about RPSG and it's projects please visit http://www.rssb.co.uk/national_programmes/personal_security_group.asp
European Level Crossing Research Forum (ELCRF)
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 |
Road-Rail Interface Safety group (R-RIS)
Purpose |
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 |
Network Rail |
RSSB Programme Manager |
Alan Davies (Alan.Davies@rssb.co.uk) |
Membership |
ATOC, British Transport Police, County Surveyors Society, Department for Transport
Network Rail
Office of Rail Regulation, PACTS, RSSB
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Outputs |
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 |
Meets every 3 months |
Community Safety Communications
Group
Purpose |
Develop and deliver Community Safety
communication projects including Annual Railway Community Safety
Forum, Trackoff Railway Safety Education website and other Community
Safety Initiatives |
Chaired |
RSSB |
RSSB Acting Programme Manager |
Marina Kilcoyne (Marina.Kilcoyne@rssb.co.uk)
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Membership |
British Transport Police, Network
Rail, Office of Rail Regulation, RSSB , Train Operating Companies |
Outputs |
Deliverables from each project |
Logistics |
Meets every 2 months |
Community Safety Partnership
Groups
Purpose |
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. |
Chaired |
Network Rail – route director
or area general manager |
Managed |
Network Rail |
Membership |
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 |
Outputs |
Local work programmes
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Logistics |
As decided locally |
Geographic scope
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Network Rail routes |
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