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Common Solutions

Enablers for efficient and effective health and safety management

Common solutions that cut across all health and safety risk areas will enable efficient and effective health and safety management. The common solutions include:

  • Health and safety intelligence
  • Taking strategic and tactical decisions
  • Competence and culture
  • Digital and technological transformation

Introduction

Our health and safety, performance, and customer satisfaction depend on our collaboration and data quality. Risk analysis can provide valuable insights for learning and acting. Long term, ongoing improvement can be achieved by equipping our people with the right skills, mindset, and capability to make informed decisions. 

We can enhance our health and safety, performance, and customer satisfaction with new technology, if we plan, execute, and maintain it well.

The Strategy is aiming to develop ‘enablers for efficient and effective health and safety management’. The initiatives that will help to achieve this are listed below.

  • Common Solutions initiatives:
    • Working together, we will exploit the value of data to support efficient and effective health and safety management.
    • Together we will develop competence and confidence in taking decisions.
    • As an industry we will make sure we have the right skills, mindset, and capability.
    • We can unlock the potential of new technology by working together.

    Track our progress on delivering the strategy. View one-page activity summaries.

Safety Strategy & Performance

Rail Health and Safety Strategy
The five-year strategy for the rail industry, aiming to deliver the healthiest, safest affordable railway in the world.
Annual Health and Safety Report
The latest information on health and safety performance, operational learning, and risk reduction initiatives.

Common Solutions Topics

Guidance and Good Practice
Access a range of good practice guidance, information, supporting services and resources on health and safety. Our content has direct input and support from organisations, RSSB groups and cross-industry collaboration.
Human Factors
Human factors is concerned with optimising human performance. In rail, it considers work environments from a human-centred point of view by studying how the whole system influences the way people behave and interact with the railway.
Non-Technical Skills
Non-Technical Skills (NTS) are social, cognitive and personal skills that can enhance the way you or your staff carry out technical skills, tasks and procedures. Access information and resources.
Proportionate Risk Response to Implementing Mitigating Speeds to Assets
Learn how PRIMA helps evaluate derailment risk, speed restrictions, and economic impacts from rainfall, enabling proportionate safety measures.
Risk and Safety Intelligence
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.
Risk Management Maturity Model
The Risk Management Maturity Model (RM3) helps the rail industry increase its capability in health and safety risk management. Find out how you can use a wide range of our services and resources to improve your safety risk.
Risk Management - RSSB Graphic Insights
Safety management is most effective when it is risk and evidence-based. Learn about the how the industry manages safety risks through visualisation and data analysis.
Safety Reporting and Intelligence Systems
These systems monitor safety to gather industry data and intelligence to target efforts for safety and performance gains.
Safety Management Resources
In this section you will find tools, guidance and expertise to help you develop your Safety Management System (SMS) to optimal effectiveness. This information is for those who arrange and/or oversee health and safety management.
Taking Safe Decisions
Taking Safe Decisions provides guidance on aspects of good practice that are properly grounded in risk-based evidence. Decisions that protect the safety of rail industry staff, passengers and others, satisfy the law, and respect the interests of stakeholders, while remaining commercially sound.

Tools and Resources

Bowtie Hub
In the Bowtie hub we provide information and a good practice guide to explain what these are, how they can be created and used, with cases studies of where they are already in use.
Rail Risk Toolkit
Information and tools to enable industry benchmark performance and provide support in formulating safety policies, plans and measures.
Safety Risk Model
The tool describes and quantifies railway operations and maintenance risks. It helps decision makers set safety priorities and analyse safety-related costs and benefits to meet legal requirements and wider business objectives confidently and demonstrably.
Safe Insights
Learn about GB rail's national database for recording and accessing safety intelligence, providing rich data to improve safety decisions.
Safety Management System
Tools, guidance and expertise to help organisations develop their Safety Management Systems to optimal effectiveness

Additional information

  • Data and Performance documents
    • Annual Health and Safety Report 2021-22 - Improving our capability
    • Capability Improvement Update Q1 2022/23
    • Capability Improvement Update Q3 2021/2022
    • Capability Improvement Update Q2 2021/2022
  • Related content
    • Podcast series: Safety 
    • RED Videos: Non-Technical Skills
    • RED Videos: Safety Critical Communications
    • Manage change 
    • Bowtie Hub 
    • Safety culture
    • Human Factors Strategy
  • Related services and resources
    • Rail Risk Toolkit
    • Risk Profiling Tool
    • Red Aspect Approaches to Signals
    • Safety Management Intelligence System
    • Safety Risk Model
  • Relevant Risk Groups
    • System Safety Risk Group
    • Safety Management Intelligence System Advisory Group
See also
  • Key Messages from Risk Groups
  • Management of Change
  • Managing Safety-Related Contacts from Members of the Public
  • Measuring Safety Performance
  • Risk Management Maturity Model (RM3)
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