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Case Study Library

19/09/2024
See how we're solving real-world rail challenges. Explore our case studies, showcasing innovative solutions and best practices in areas like workforce safety, sustainable development, and safety intelligence.
  • Infrastructure
    • Birmingham New Street - A New Approach to Infrastructure
    • Efficient and effective integrated systems assurance
    • Line side signalling
    • National technical rules for electrification
    • National Values standard 
    • New stations platform standard
  • Passenger and Public Safety
    • Borders Railway PTI
    • Crowd Management Good Practice - Case Study Library
    • Human factors case studies
    • Non-Technical Skills
    • Passenger Train Design
    • Platform Train Interface
    • Trespass Case Studies and Good Practice
  • Rolling Stock
    • Efficient and effective integrated systems assurance
    • Defective On-Train Equipment
    • GSM-R failure
    • Passenger Train Design
    • Retrofitting in-cab TPWS
    • Retrofitting power door options
  • Safety Intelligence
    • SMIS: The Benefits of Inputting Detailed Cause Information
    • Track Worker Safety Data Insights
    • Risk from soil cutting failures
  • Supplier Schemes
    • RISAS Case Study: Experiencing a Deep-Dive Assessment - Northern
    • RISAS Case Study: Unipart Rail
  • Sustainable Development
    • 4RC Environmental Limited - Diversion of PPE from Landfill
    • Abellio - Aligning Group Activity with Clear Over-Arching Principles
    • AMCO - Local Sustainability Initiatives
    • Amey Inabensa - Innovative Road Rail Access Points
    • Arriva Trains Wales and partners - Orange Wallet Scheme
    • ATC Joint Venture - Identifying High Carbon Materials
    • Change Please - Social Enterprise Coffee Kiosks in Stations
    • Crossrail - Leaving a Learning Legacy
    • Crossrail and Network Rail - Addressing Skills Gaps
    • Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership - Increasing Local Services - Seize the Sunday
    • East Midlands Trains - Reduces Food Waste with Real Junk Food Project
    • Govia Thameslink - Achieving 50001 Certification by Focusing on Traction 
    • Govia Thameslink - Developing Competency in Sustainability
    • GWR - Circular approaches to waste uniforms 
    • Heart of Wales CRP/ Arriva Trains Wales - Heart of Wales Enterprise Network
    • HS2 - Building lifecycle thinking into rail 
    • LMCRP - Dementia and Community Rail 
    • London Midland - Smethwick Rolfe Street station: Regeneration by the community 
    • Midland Metro Alliance - Metro Expansion design carbon savings 
    • National Skills Academy for Rail - Rail Sector Skills delivery plan- Promotion and Attraction
    • Network Rail - Advancing biodiversity with technological innovation
    • Network Rail - Electrification Embodied Carbon Savings
    • Network Rail - High Output Ballast Cleaning System
    • Network Rail - IP Southern Benchmarking
    • Network Rail - Under Sleeper Pads
    • Network rail and partners - Birmingham New Street - a new approach to infrastructure
    • Network rail and partners - Reading elevated railway value engineering
    • RSSB - Tomorrow's Railway and Climate Change Adaptation
    • ScotRail - Engineering for traction energy reduction
    • ScotRail - Responding to legislation to increase recycling
    • Skanska - Measuring social impact
    • Transport for London - Reducing whole life carbon
    • Virgin - Catering for waste reduction
  • Taking Safe Decisions and CSMs
    • G-FORCE Case Studies
    • Taking Safe Decisions - Worked Examples
  • Workforce Health and Wellbeing
    • Alstom – Integrating health and wellbeing competencies
    • Colas Rail – Alertness assessment
    • Colas Rail  – Embedding wellbeing into complex delivery projects
    • Colas Rail – Railway Mental Health Charter
    • Delivering Psychoeducation Mental Health Stigma and Time to Change
    • Delivering Psychoeducation on Trauma and PTSD
    • Dementia and community
    • Direct Rail Services (NTS) – Alertness assessment trial
    • Dyer & Butler – Using data to inform wellbeing initiatives
    • GB Railfreight – promoting mental health through senior leaders
    • Getting in Control of Mental Health
    • Implementing a mental health strategy
    • Irish Rail – how to engage men in health conversations
    • Keolis Amey Docklands – tackling work-related violence
    • Musculoskeletal Disorders Case Studies
    • Occupational Hygiene Strategy Case Study
    • Ownership as a key ingredient to successful interventions
    • Southeastern – Cab Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Risk
    • Southeastern – Creating a Company-wide MSDs Policy
    • Southeastern – Railway Mental Health Charter
    • South Western Railway - Railway Mental Health Charter
    • Transport for London – Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service
    • Translink – Wellbeing Champions and H&W communications
    • Transport for London – Musculoskeletal Disorder Risk Assessment of Train Cabs
    • Using data to put mental health on the agenda
    • VolkerRail – Building Relationships On Site (BROS) Initiative
    • West Midlands trains are ‘Hear to Listen’
    • Why we need to tackle Type 2 Diabetes – A GTR case study
  • Workforce Safety
    • Data Insights Route compatibility standard
    • Just a routine operation
    • Rule Book app
    • The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster
    • The Paddington Rail Disaster
    • The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
    • Track Worker Safety
 
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