Rail Health and Safety Strategy: Our progress
The System Safety Risk Group (SSRG) and the Rail Wellbeing Alliance (RWA) are tasked with delivering the Rail Health and Safety Strategy (RHSS). Between them, they co-ordinate cross-industry collaborative groups, each dedicated to addressing a specific part of the strategy. The progress of their activities is shared here.
The RHSS Delivery Document
This record, reviewed quarterly, summarises the activities of the collaborative groups and their progress on delivering the strategy. It also outlines current work, and sets out plans for the next five years.
Click to read RHSS | Deliver Document 2025Plan on a page
Each activity undertaken by the groups, as listed in the delivery document, is summarised on a single page. They are listed below, divided by risk area.
Health and Wellbeing Groups
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Health and Wellbeing
- A public health roadmap for rail
- RM3 for Health
- Occupational Health in Rail
- Develop Taking Health Decisions Framework
- Health Hazards Guidance and Tools
- MSD Survey
- Health Insights – Phase 1
- Training for Occupational Health providers
- Review of Medical Frequencies
- Competency and Leadership for Health and Wellbeing in Rail
Find out more about the Rail Wellbeing Alliance.
Operations Groups
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Passenger Operations
- Passenger Overcarry
- On Board Risk
- Stranded trains/passengers
- Retrieval of items from the track (RIFT)
- Planned General Inspection (PGI)
- Escalators and Lifts
- PTI Risk Assessment Tool
- Crowd Management
- Risks Associated with Train Dispatch
- Station Boarding Ramps
- Sitting on platform edge (SOPE)
- Provide framework for industry PTI Strategy
Find out more about the People on Trains and in Stations Risk Group.
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Train Operations
- Strategy to improve SPAD investigation and reporting
- Overspeed Risk Ranking Tool
- Overspeed Data Strategy - learning from overspeeding through better data
- Overspeed RIS and guidance on improving the management of information on late notices
- Delivery of Red Aspect Approach to Signals toolkit 2 (RAATS2) functionality
Find out more about the Train Accident Risk Group.
Occupational Health and Safety Groups
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Fatigue
- Driver Attention and Alertness Monitoring Trial
- 2023 RSSB Rail Industry Fatigue Survey
- Fatigue Co-ordination Group (FCG) Workstream
- Train Operating Company (TOC) Fatigue Workstreams
- Freight (FOC) Fatigue Workstreams
- Infrastructure Safety Leadership (ISLG) Fatigue Workstream
Find out more about the Fatigue Coordination Group.
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Occupational Health and Safety
Asset Management Groups
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Asset Integrity
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Freight Safety
Public Behaviour Groups
Common Solutions
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Common Solutions
- Modernising SMIS
- Precursor Indicator Model Improvement: better tracking of train accident risk
- Taking Safe Decisions e-learning: Embedding key principles
- Improving the quantification of risk arising from delays and disruption
- Update and relaunch safety-related CBA guidance tool
- Safety Risk Model
- Development of a train accident cost model for integration with the Safety Risk Model
- Ensuring risk tools capture recently introduced technology
Find out more about Common Solutions.
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Human Factors
