Events and Webinars

27 May 2025

Across the railway system, we make decisions every day to keep people safe, provide a good service, and deliver value for money. On the railway, actions often have direct and indirect impacts and affect safety in different ways. And we need to understand and satisfy our legal safety obligations. This webinar will explore findings from ORR’s review into the costs and benefits of safety interventions, how RSSB is helping embed good practice in safety decision taking, and how we can take balanced risk decisions in practice.

9 June 2025

Join RSSB’s Standards team to hear about the new and updated standards published in June 2025. These include crashworthiness risk assessment for mainline passenger rolling stock, traction batteries in rolling stock depots, and fire compartmentation and lithium-ion traction batteries.

25 June 2025

Fortunately, fire is a rare event on the railway, but there is still a small risk of loss of life, injury, or damage as a result of fire. By sharing knowledge and best practice across the rail industry, we can learn from incidents and reduce that risk still further. This forum provides an opportunity to hear about a review of annual fire statistics, fire regulations and changes to standards, and how the risk profile is changing, from new consumer equipment to new forms of traction.

10 July 2025

Join RSSB’s Operations Risk and Safety Conference, now in its fifth year. The event gathers industry leaders to discuss the key challenges facing rail. Its extensive programme covers three streams of content and is designed for delegates to build their own bespoke agenda covering a wide range of topics.

17 July 2025

Why do good drivers make avoidable mistakes? In this webinar, we’ll look at the human factors behind slow manoeuvring RTCs, how drivers can manage their mental and physical health, and how drivers can ensure that the ergonomic setup inside their vehicle supports a safe journey.

18–19 September 2025

The eighth International Human Factors Rail Conference is now open for your submissions of extended abstracts and for registration. This 2-day, multi-stream conference will bring together scientists, consultants, regulators, operators, infrastructure managers, manufacturers, and suppliers to share rail human factors knowledge and state-of-the-art human factors research. It will focus on topical issues, such as human factors in design, new technology, in-cab signalling, traffic management, non-technical skills, the platform-train interface, and safety culture.