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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 7 2023-2024
In Period 7, RSI, alongside Network Rail, represented GB rail at the Global Level Crossing Network hosted by Deutsche Bahn Netz in Germany. The event enabled global rail companies to share information and experience in order to support level crossing risk reduction. RSI also conducted a series of interviews with members of the Heritage Trains Risk Group to identify key challenges to address. RSI provided support to the Infrastructure Safety Leadership Group CP7 road-mapping sessions, where they identified the key themes and challenges in workforce safety. Finally, RSSB hosted the biannual SMIS User Group meeting on 12 October.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 6 2023-2024
In Period 6, we completed a deep-dive analysis on how rail strikes influenced SPADs, dispatch irregularities and signal failures, with our findings presented to the Train Accident Risk Group. We hosted the International Union of Railways Safety Performance Group. At a SMIS Advisory Group meeting, plans for SMIS were provided. The Precursor Indicator Model was presented to the RSSB Board. Finally, we set up a virtual community of bowtie users.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 5 2023-2024
In Period 5, RSI used SMIS to collate data on significant accidents involving trains to help our members meet their common safety indicators reporting requirements. This was then sent to the Office for Rail and Road. RSI also met with 23 organisations about SMIS data quality as part of its SMIS data quality programme. The offline trial report for IMP-T1269 has been published and is available on the RSSB website. Finally, an updated version of the Taking Safe Decisions Cost-Benefit Analysis tool has been published.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 4 2023-2024
In Period 4, RSI launched the 2022/23 Annual Health and Safety Report at the Operations Risk and Safety Conference. Two new changes to SMIS have gone live to improve and simplify the way industry reports platform edge and depot events. The Platform Train Interface Risk Assessment Tool (PSI RAT) has been updated with new functionality and a better user experience.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 3 2023-2024
In Period 3, RSI presented the work RSSB has been doing to improve how bowties are used to support safety risk assessment and drive improvement initiatives at the UK Bowtie User Group in York on 15 June. Also, RSI presented the highlights from RSSB’s Annual Health and Safety Report (AHSR) 22/23 to the Rail Health and Safety Committee hosted by the ORR.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 2 2023-2024
In Period 2, the National Incident Statistics relating to train fires were presented at the 2023 Fire Forum Seminar. The second batch of the simplified SMIS forms, which incorporate improvements that can reduce the time it takes to enter data into SMIS, were deployed below budget and ahead of schedule.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 1 2023-2024
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Update - Period 13 2022-23
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 12 2022-23
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 11 2022-23
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 10 2022-23
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 9 2022-23
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 8 2022-23
This period members joined us as we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Safety Management Intelligence System (SMIS), recognising our combined efforts in safety data reporting. We continue to improve SMIS, such as through the simplification project, and expect to have an even stronger database at its next milestone. Separately, the second round of health and wellbeing data has been processed, enabling the organisations that receive the reports to support their workforce better.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 7 2022-23
In Period 7 the LHSBR quarterly reports for Q1 were published, showing updates and progress in several of our ongoing and completed projects. From Q2, the reports will be presented in a new format, to improve user experience. We have also performed data requests for key industry members, who have provided positive feedback on the data and our timely response.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 6 2022-23
In Period 6 the first episode in a three-part podcast series about the Safety Management Intelligence System (SMIS) was recorded and released. We supported International Union of Railways (UIC) by reviewing their latest safety report. We also provided the first data pack to the Over-speed Management Task and Finish (OMTF) group.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 5 2022-23
In Period 5 we provided data and reports for various external members, including the T1269 project draft outputs and the OTTO review. We also supplied data to the UIC and the ORR, and supported our own data insights capability and made improvements in monitoring LHSBR risk. Additionally, we held SMIS training and surgery sessions to gather feedback from users and develop actions to improve SMIS input.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 4 2022-23
In Period 4 we published our Annual Health and Safety Report for 2021/22. This provides a review on the state of the nation’s health and safety performance, improvement activity, and progress with delivering the industry strategy Leading Health and Safety on Britain’s Railway (LHSBR). The report was launched at RSSB’s Operations, Risk and Safety Conference, which brought together leaders and safety professionals from across GB rail.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 3 2022-23
In this period we successfully launched five new, simpler reporting forms as part of the drive to make our Safety Management Intelligence System (SMIS) easier and quicker to use.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 2 2022-23
This period we’ve been busy with risk models – developing a model to inform the operational response to extreme rainfall events, reviewing the new MTR Elizabeth Line risk model, and supporting a Network Rail re-signalling project. We’ve also been busy making SMIS easier and quicker to use and recognising SMIS teams from across GB rail for their hard work and contribution to a better, safer railway.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 1 2022-23
In period 1 of 2022 we launched our new dashboard for tracking regional and national trends in train accident risk. We also introduced a new user-led approach to SMIS training.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 13 2021-22
In period 13 we delivered two major projects: a new Precursor Indicator Model dashboard for tracking train accident risk and a rebuilt Safety Risk Model that will better support local risk evaluation and ‘what if’ analysis. Both depend on data from the industry’s Safety Management Intelligence System (SMIS), in which our members recorded more than 70,000 safety-related events during 2021/22.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 12 2021-22
In period 12 we investigated potential improvements to train horn effectiveness, worked on GB rail’s response to the risk from e-scooter battery fires, and helped our members share good practice in bowtie risk management. We also concluded our annual assessment of SMIS data quality, which provides an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of most SMIS user organisations and identify where improvement is needed. SMIS is a trusted data source that underpins GB rail’s evidence- and risk-based approach to safety management.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 11 2021-22
In Period 11 we supported Network Rail with European Train Control System (ETCS) implementation, and industry groups to promote risk understanding and safety improvements on topics from level crossings to trespass to line blockages. We also published our new SMIS Charter, which explains what the Safety Management Intelligence System (SMIS) is, the role of each contributing organisation, and how we keep the system and its data fit-for-purpose.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 10 2021-22
In our ‘latest updates in Risk and Safety Intelligence’ we usually feature key outputs and member supported activities delivered during that period. In this period, we focus instead on some of the major projects that the team is working on in 2021/22.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 9 2021-22
Collaboration was a key theme in period 9. The industry strategy, Leading Health and Safety on Britain’s Railway, is all about co-operation, and we recently published our safety performance overviews for the second quarter of 2021/22.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 8 2021-22
In period 8, the accident at Salisbury Tunnel Junction on 31 October 2021 sharpened the focus on signals passed at danger and the work we do to help our members manage this risk. We also published reports on staff mental wellbeing and on workforce trauma in collaboration with RSSB’s Health and Wellbeing colleagues and with support from the industry.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 7 2021-22
In Period 7 we launched our new BowTieServer platform. Our members can now access industry risk bowties covering a range of hazards, threats and risk controls. We also published new-look quarterly progress updates for Leading Health and Safety on Britain’s Railway and provided risk assessment support to help address some of the industry’s strategic safety challenges.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 6 2021-22
In Period 6 the spotlight fell on our work to support health and wellbeing risk management. We also published guidance on the important but sometimes overlooked topic of managing safety-related customer contacts, stepped up our support to industry risk groups, and reviewed measures introduced earlier in the pandemic to help our members adapt to the changing covid-19 situation with increase in passenger numbers.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 5 2021-22
In Period 5 we undertook a range of activities for our members, covering topics from SPADs and speeding to safety reporting. We also continued to make progress with our longer-term projects for building industry risk management capability and will report on these in future updates.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 4 2021-22
Effort in Period 4 focussed on ramping up major projects like Development of a System Risk Model for Extreme Weather Events and the Safety Risk Model Rebuild and helping members get value from the work we delivered in Periods 1-3.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 3 2021-22
A summary of our recent activities in risk and safety intelligence. The list below also provides links to the relevant outputs our capabilities have contributed to.
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Risk and Safety Intelligence Updates - Period 2 2021-22
A summary of our recent activities in the area of risk and safety intelligence. The list below also provides links to the relevant outputs our capabilities have contributed to.
