Stations Working Group
The Stations Working Group (S-WG) is a specialist cross-industry group that exists to monitor trends and facilitate collaborative activities around safety risks at stations across the GB railway.
"The S-WG is a cross-industry working group that meets quarterly to assess the current and emerging risks to our customers collaboratively. We take a broad focus on the end-to-end journey, using collective data and individual good practice to identify potential improvements. The outputs from these meetings can be actioned within the group or escalated within the PTSRG for endorsement or further support. This broad and impartial collaboration is an effective platform to achieve consensus and influence the direction that station operations will follow during a time of transition and unprecedented industry change."
Scope
The S-WG considers safety risks to the workforce, passengers and members of the public within the station environment on the GB railways. Its scope covers:
- staff competence
- accessibility
- areas that influence passenger and staff behaviour in stations, including passenger safety information and communications
- activity as directed by the People on Trains and in Stations Risk Group (PTSRG).
The hazards/risks within the S-WG’s scope include, but are not limited to:
- events where people slip, trip or fall in station areas away from the platform-train interface (PTI). This generally excludes platforms* but includes stairs, lifts, escalators, station forecourts, car parks, and taxi ranks.
- manual handling incidents in stations.
- people struck by/colliding with/trapped by objects or other people in station premises.
- falls from height, within station premises.
- fires or explosions in stations but not train fires.
- assault, abuse and other crime and anti-social behaviour**.
*Platforms are in-scope for the Platform Train Interface Working Group, but as it is not always clear where a concourse ends and a platform begins, there will be an annual joint meeting to consider common areas.
**In collaboration with the Work-Related Violence Strategic Group.
Activities not included within the scope of this group:
- events in retail premises within stations
- at the PTI or on trains
- trespass, suicide or level crossing events.
Membership
The group’s membership is made up of the following industry categories:
- passenger train operators
- rolling stock owners and leasing companies
- infrastructure managers and owners
- RSSB
- Department for Transport (observer)
- Office of Rail and Road (observer).
Chair: Alasdair Forsyth, First Greater Western Limited
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Group members
Name Company Representing Status Anneli Harrison Office of Rail and Road Regulator Member Alasdair Forsyth Great Western Railway Passenger Train Operators Chair Carl Martin GT Rail Passenger Train Operators Chair Claire Reading-Moorhouse Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Managers Member David Hirst East West Rail Passenger Train Operators Member Lucy Ford MTR Corporation (Crossrail) Limited Passenger Train Operators Member Mary Togher West Midlands Trains Ltd Passenger Train Operators Member Matthew Jump Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Nathan Sobers Chiltern Railway Passenger Train Operators Member Olly Brady Avanti West Coast Passenger Train Operators Member Penny Bristow RSSB RSSB Meeting Manager Stephen Alder Network Rail Infrastructure Managers Member Stephen Green LNER Passenger Train Operators Member Tom Ellis RSSB RSSB Member
