National Freight Safety Group
The aim of the National Freight Safety Group (NFSG) is to facilitate the improvement of health and safety in the rail freight industry through managing system risk.
Scope
It will achieve this by doing the following:
- Understanding the national risk profile for freight and developing strategies improving areas of concern and communicating issues to the route groups, multi-route groups and topic groups for action.
- Obtaining verification that issues have been addressed and are being managed.
- Providing an advisory function for the System Safety Review Group (SSRG) and industry members that the risk associated with freight is being cooperatively addressed.
- Reviewing the effectiveness of freight industry performance in managing risks.
- Promoting and facilitating the management of risk collaboratively by the most appropriate means.
- Ensuring the co-operative structure encompasses the whole of the freight railway system’s risk profile.
- Identifying good practice and sharing it with the relevant groups & stakeholders.
- Promoting improvements in co-operation amongst SMS duty holders.
- Reviewing and challenging the effectiveness of the existing freight meetings to promote safety co-operation.
- Introducing an assurance process into the active groups and the process of safety co-operation.
- Sponsor and own research and development projects.
- Understand legislation and regulation and the impacts on the industry of proposed changes to them from within the UK and Europe.
- Horizon Scan: systematically examine potential threats and opportunities to detect early signs of potentially important developments and changes to the industry risk profile.
Message from the chair
Membership
The group’s membership is made up of the following industry categories:
- freight and other non-passenger train operators
- infrastructure managers and owners
- RSSB
- Office of Rail and Road (observer).
Chair of committee: Dougie Hill
, Direct Rail Services Limited
RSSB main representative: Phil Hibberd
, Rail Safety and Standards Board Ltd
Other Members
Company
Representing
Other members
Roy Howes
GB Railfreight Limited
Freight Operator
Claire Peers
Direct Rail Services Limited
Freight Operator
Neil Sime
Victa Railfreight Limited
Freight Operator
Dougie Hill
Direct Rail Services Limited
Chair
Nicolas Edwards
DB Cargo (UK) Limited
Freight Operator
Craig Watson
Direct Rail Services Limited
Freight Operator
Greg Morse
Rail Safety and Standards Board Ltd
RSSB
Annette Edgington
Rail Operations (UK) Ltd
Freight Operator
Kevin Langley
Victa Railfreight Limited
Freight Operator
Peter Williams
Network Rail - Southern Region
Infrastructure Manager
Phil Hibberd
Rail Safety and Standards Board Ltd
RSSB
Stephanie Ferry
Rail Operations (UK) Ltd
Freight Operator
Steve Rhymes
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited
Infrastructure Manager
Stuart Anderson
GB Railfreight Limited
Freight Operator
Liesel von Metz
Devon And Cornwall Railways Limited
Freight Operator
Richard Dare
Colas Rail Ltd
Freight Operator
Alice Monk
Rail Safety and Standards Board Ltd
RSSB
Patrick Talbot
Office of Rail and Road
Office of Rail and Road
Nikita Niven
Freightliner Heavy Haul Limited
Freight Operator
Marc Binney
DB Cargo (UK) Limited
Freight Operator
Dean Duthie
GB Railfreight Limited
Freight Operator
Radhika Kohli
Rail Safety and Standards Board Ltd
RSSB
Joseph Hagan
Colas Rail Ltd
Freight Operator
Caroline Meek
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited
Infrastructure Manager