Safety and Health

Introduction

RSSB plays a leading role for the industry, to help you and your organisation understand and manage safety risks. Our good safety performance has been achieved by highly competent people, close collaboration across the industry, the adoption of advanced health and safety management systems, and the effective application of standards and technology.

Our work looks at ways to develop and continuously improve health and safety management systems to achieve a better, safer railway. It covers a broad range of topics including: safety intelligence; workforce, passenger and public safety; workforce health and wellbeing; rolling stock; infrastructure; and human factors.

Leading Health and Safety on Britain's Railway is the rail industry’s health and safety strategy. Developed by leaders across a range of rail sectors, this strategy sets out the challenges and activities which need collaborative approaches to deliver a better, safer and healthier railway across Great Britain.

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Good health and safety management relies on good data and analysis. This section provides access to the data that underpins good health and safety management is defined, recorded, analysed and reported on.

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This section provides information that will help you and your organisation understand and manage risks, and to develop and continuously improve health and safety management systems.

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Managing health and safety is good for your business. In this section we provide a range of good practice guidance for railway leaders and managers with health and safety responsibilities. Access content that introduces opportunities which extend past reduction in costs, risks and fewer accidents.

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Rail freight is an essential part of Britain’s transport infrastructure. When compared to roads, it provides a more efficient and eco-friendly way to transport goods. It’s safer too, but that’s not to say it’s risk-free.

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RSSB helps the industry push for improvement by monitoring the learning that comes from near misses and accidents, both here and across the globe. Here we provide content that enables the industry to learn from operational experience.

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Our industry topics are a direct response to challenge or opportunity where the rail industry has looked to RSSB for guidance or solutions. This section provides members access to relevant information in one place.

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RSSB provides cross-industry governance for industry decisions and activities in many areas. The System Safety Risk Group (SSRG) promotes collaboration on safety issues aligned to the risk areas described in the industry’s safety strategy ‘Leading Health and Safety on Britain’s Railway’.

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Find out about the Rail Wellbeing Alliance (RWA) and its subgroups coordinate a variety of health activities across the industry, so that legal requirements, cost benefits, and better health provision within organisations can be universally achieved.

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