Cutting the ribbon on Safe Insights
After 25 years of pioneering safety data analysis, the rail industry is retiring the Safety Management Intelligence System (SMIS). It’s replaced by Safe Insights, a more user-friendly, time efficient, and technologically advanced new interface.
Chris Knowles, Director of System Safety and Health at RSSB, tells us more:
‘Launching in March 2025, Safe Insights promises to streamline data input, enhance analysis, and accelerate safety improvements across Britain’s railways. For over two decades, SMIS has been the cornerstone of safety incident reporting, driving significant advancements in rail safety and efficiency. Building on that heritage RSSB has developed Safe Insights – the successor to SMIS. It’s an integrated system designed to elevate safety data management to new heights.’
Safe Insights is more than just a database; it's a comprehensive system that empowers RSSB members to accurately collect, store, and analyse crucial safety data. With AI assistance, data input is simplified, aiding accuracy and saving valuable time. The system’s modern reporting capabilities will facilitate quicker and more effective insights, connecting frontline experience with research, standards, and operational improvements.
Key Features of Safe Insights
- AI-Enhanced Input: Streamlines data collection, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
- Analytics Capabilities: Facilitates faster data sharing, understanding, and learning.
- Integrated System: Allows for seamless data collection, storage, and analysis.
- Expansion Beyond Safety: Sets the stage for integrating health, wellbeing, and sustainability data.
Safe Insights represents the first of a family of tools aimed at expanding the benefits of data-driven insights beyond safety, encompassing health, wellbeing, and sustainability. RSSB is committed to empowering the rail industry to learn, adapt, and continuously improve, keeping Britain moving with safer, smarter rail.
See Safe Insights in action
Watch this video to learn how Safe Insights demonstrated by Anthony Willett from Freightliner Group is transforming rail safety.