Rail Health and Safety Strategy Editorial Board
The Rail Health and Safety Strategy Editorial Board advises RSSB on how to engage with operational rail staff about the safety risks associated with their roles. The basis for this work is Rail Health and Safety Strategy, the industry’s strategy that sets out key activities aimed at developing a safer and healthier railway.
"Though the figures confirm rail’s good safety record, we must keep telling the safety and health story, so that this encouraging trend continues. The editorial board helps by managing the content and production of RED and Right Track for all ops staff across the network. We look at emerging risk trends and key incidents to share lessons learnt for drivers, dispatchers, guards, shunters, signallers, track maintainers – the whole railway family in fact."
Scope
The Rail Health and Safety Strategy communications products focus on promoting good practice and learning from:
- accidents, incidents, precursors and unplanned events on the national rail network due to any cause (excluding public behaviour at level crossings): human error, equipment failure, environment, vandalism, and any other risks in the scope of the strategy
- train accident risk in yards, depots and sidings
- workforce risk from accidents occurring on the running line: slips, trips and falls; contact with objects; and being struck by trains
- health, safety and risk issues in stations and on platforms, including at the platform-train interface
- major international rail events.
The format of Rail Health and Safety Strategy communications products must be accessible to the end audience, to ensure maximum impact. As such, the products:
- use storytelling as a way of communicating complicated concepts clearly
- use language that the target audience of front line operational staff appreciate and understand
- are produced using media (film, magazine, web) that are easily accessible
Membership
The group’s membership is made up of the following industry categories:
- passenger train operators
- freight and other non-passenger train operators
- infrastructure managers and owners
- suppliers and rolling stock manufacturers
- RSSB.
Chair of committee: Greg Morse, RSSB
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Committee members
Name Company Representing Status Andy Mercer Arriva Rail London Ltd Passenger Train Operators Member Andy Long First Greater Western Limited Passenger Train Operators Member Anna Pearson Crossrail International Ltd Passenger Train Operators Member Brad Atkins Southern Railway Passenger Train Operators Member Chris Duddy First Trenitalia West Coast Rail Ltd Passenger Train Operators Member Claire Coombes RSSB RSSB Member Claire Volding Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Dan Ryder Story Plant Suppliers Member David Pike Arriva Rail London Ltd Passenger Train Operators Member Erol Baduna Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Graham Goswell Hitachi Rail Limited Suppliers Member Greg Morse RSSB Independent Chair Helen Tiso Network Rail - North West & Central Region Infrastructure Managers Member Howard Pugh MTR Corporation (Crossrail) Limited Infrastructure Managers Member James Webb RSSB RSSB Member Jamie Fletcher Seilwaith Amey Cymru /Amey Infrastucture Wales Ltd Infrastructure Contractors Member Keith Musgrove Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Malcolm Gavin SE Trains Limited Passenger Train Operators Member Maria Winter Transport For London (TFL) Government Member Marianna White RSSB RSSB Member Martin Biggin Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Martin Bloomfield Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Maurice Partington Abellio East Midlands Limited Passenger Train Operators Member Michael Woods RSSB RSSB Member Nicolas Edwards DB Cargo (UK) Limited Non Passenger Train Operators Member Paul Bennett Northern Trains Limited Passenger Train Operators Member Peter Brockett GB Railfreight Limited Non Passenger Train Operators Member Peter Dempsey First Greater Western Limited Passenger Train Operators Member Reuben Mcdonald High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Rich Farish London North Eastern Railway Passenger Train Operators Member Russell Hampton London Underground Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Sheila Andrews Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Managers Member Simon Crofts Big Button Suppliers Member Susan Johnson Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Infrastructure Managers Member
