38: Learning from... - the Potters Bar Accident
We can learn a lot from accidents. As we try to avoid history repeating itself, Greg Morse looks back at the Potters Bar accident of 20 years ago. What went wrong? What have we learned?
37: Road Driving for a Safer Railway - Embedding DfBB in the Supply Chain
As it has accounted for as many as half of our workforce fatalities, road driving is an important area for risk management. Both as employers and contractors of services, rail organisations have a duty of care to those who work for them.
36: Could you help save another life?
First published in the At the Front Line series, in this episode we look at the continuing work being done by Samaritans, and talk with a Network Rail project manager who has first-hand experience of small talk and how it saved his life.
35: Could you be a Samaritans Christmas Star?
In this episode we look at the work Samaritans does over the Christmas period, and talk with a trainee Shunt Driver at Freightliner about why and what she has done to support Samaritans.
34: On Track - Staying Safe
This episode, first published in the At the Front Line stream, looks at the work of the Network Rail Safety Task Force to reduce open line working and the risks associated with it.
33: Road Driving for a Safer Railway – Driving and riding safely for work
Driving and riding for work fall under the HSAW Act 1974. New HSE guidance covers responsibilities for employers and employees—whatever the vehicle.
32: Freight Safety - Condition of Freight Vehicles on the Network
In this episode we look at the work being done by the CFVN Working Group to improve the lot of ground staff and engineers in freight yards and depots, and to reduce the delays caused by the condition of freight vehicles.
31: Lone Working - Your Health, Safety and Wellbeing
This episode looks at RSSB's research into lone working. It includes the guidance that has been developed to help managers, employers, and lone workers themselves, to achieve better outcomes for health, safety and wellbeing.
30: Learning from… - the Clapham Accident
Learning from… - the Clapham Accident. Lessons from the past have helped us improve safety risk management. But that's no reason to be complacent. We all still need to remember and practice, to make our railway as safe as we can.
29: More Efficient Rail Freight - Path Planner
Defining Very Short-Term Planning routes is resource intensive. In this episode: the importance of rail freight to the economy and environment; and how a new tool could help deliver a better customer experience.
28: HS2 - Busting the Capacity Myths
In this episode we look at some of the benefits the HS2 project will bring to Britain, including extra rail capacity, better connectivity, employment opportunities, and reduced carbon impacts.
27: Collaborative Modelling - Sharing Data Without Giving Away Your Secrets
This podcast looks at how the the Functional Mock-up Interface can let modelling data outputs be shared collaboratively for better results, without giving away company secrets.
26: Remote Condition Monitoring - Using the Internet of Things for a Better Passenger Experience
In this episode we look at how the Internet of Things is being trialled to improve passenger experience on Grand Central Railway services.
25: When the Rules Don't Apply -The G-FORCE Tool in the Control Centre
This podcast looks at how the G-FORCE Tool has been used by GWR in the Control Centre, examples of incidents when it has been used, and the benefits it can bring.
24: The Sustainable Rail Strategy - How Rail Will Deliver on Government Priorities
This podcast looks at the collaborative work done, and to be done, to deliver the Sustainable Rail Strategy, and the actions needed to deliver its goals.
23: Road Driving for a Safer Railway - The Gap Analysis Tool at East Midlands Railway
This podcast looks at how the Driving for Better Business Gap Analysis Tool has been used and the benefits it has delivered at East Midlands Railway.
22: BowTie Risk Analysis - Why, When, How to use it
This podcast looks at the BowTie Method of risk analysis - why and when to use it, and how it can help broaden understanding of risk, hazards, and mitigations in a visual way.
21: Road Driving for a Safer Railway - The DfBB Gap Analysis Tool
This podcast looks at the Driving for Better Business Gap Analysis Tool and how it can help identify whether your company is meeting minimum legal requirements for how well you are managing road driving risk.
20: Road Driving for a Safer Railway - The Road Risk Charter
This podcast looks at the Occupational Road Risk Management Charter. Steve Enright explains what it contains, why companies should sign it and the financial and reputational benefits that companies will see from working collaboratively to better manage road risk.
19: Road Driving for a Safer Railway - The Hidden Problem
This podcast looks at how RSSB and the Road Risk Group are collaborating with Highways England and its Driving for Better Business programme to increase the maturity of our occupational road risk management, and reduce the level of harm caused by driving for work.
18: Horizon Scanning, Covid-19 and Rail Biosafety
This episode looks at how the RSSB Horizon Scanning programme has identified issues and helped companies make the best possible decisions around the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. With a vaccination programme well under way, Claire Shooter talks about the support that has been delivered, and how to deal with the uncertainty of the future.
17: When Software Goes Wrong - Engaging Your Imagination
In the last of the When Software Goes Wrong series, we talk about incidents and a concept that will engage your creativity and imagination to think about reasonably foreseeable scenarios - what could go wrong - and how to design them out of your own software-based projects.
16: Defining a New Rail Sustainability Strategy
In this episode I talk with RSSB's recently appointed Director for Sustainable Development, George Davies, about his vision for a new Rail Sustainability Strategy. He also talks about his plans for how to collaborate with industry colleagues to agree, implement, and communicate the strategy and the progress it achieves.
15: When Software Goes Wrong - A Quick Recovery
In this episode Dr Emma Taylor talks about how good documentation helped a quick recovery when a complex, software-based software system unexpectedly shut down in 2014. The system used to control aircraft movements over the whole of England and Wales.
14: When Software Goes Wrong - A City Metro System
In this episode Dr Emma Taylor talks about the software issues that caused a collision while testing a new signalling system on a city's metro system, to extract the lessons learned so that we can avoid similar errors on the GB railway.
13: When Software Goes Wrong - The Cambrian Line Incident
In this episode Dr Emma Taylor talks about the software issues that caused the Cambrian Line incident, the lessons learned, and the industry's response to recommendation 3 in the RAIB report.
12: Trespass kills: the ORR perspective
This podcast looks at how the ORR assess whether railway companies are doing enough to reduce trespass risk and the role of the new guidance on trespass risk assessment in helping to meet that objective.
11: Trespass kills: assessing trespass risk
This episode looks at the new RSSB guidance on trespass risk assessment. We also discuss how well trespass prevention measures work, with an example of how higher fences had a dramatic effect on trespass incidents. We consider the advantages of having a consistent assessment method, and whether we have a clear picture of what measures reduce the risk of trespass to as low as reasonably practicable.
10: When Software Goes Wrong - A Need for Culture Change
Part 2 of this podcast looks at the culture change that will be needed to address digital safety threats. The need for traditional design engineers to broaden their sphere of thinking, and to bring others into design conversations. Emma also talks about the need to start thinking about reasonably foreseeable scenarios. For us all to start thinking about what could go wrong when you consider the digital components within your physical assets.
9: When Software Goes Wrong - The NIS Regulations 2018
Part 1 of this podcast looks at the NIS Regulations 2018and their effect on the rail industry. Who should be concerned, and what we need to do to demonstrate compliance and avoid fines of up to £17m. What to do until we have a good body of precursors to digital incidents; and what aspects or operations should be considered as safety critical.
8: Could you help save a life?
This episode looks at the rail industry partnership with Samaritans', and at the Managing Suicidal Contacts training programme. And one front line customer experience manager tells us about how the training gave him the confidence to intervene. Then he tells a story about just one of the 29 live-saving interventions he has made. Helping to deliver a better, safer railway.
7: Trespass kills: its impact on a better, safer railway
This podcast looks at how trespass impacts the railway. Its operational, financial, and human costs.
6: When Software Goes Wrong - Digital Asset Integrity on the Railway
This podcast looks at how greater use of digital technologies will impact asset integrity, and the increased collaboration among previously separate fields that will be needed to deliver a better, safer railway.
5: Station Plans for Accidents: improving customer care
In this podcast Sara Sherrard and Tom Moran talks about failings in customer care and the improvements implemented after Sara's mother suffered a fatal accident at Mill Hill Station.
4: Leading Health and Safety on Britain's Railway: collaborating to reduce railway risk
Dougie Hill, Head of National Freight Strategy & Policy at Direct Rail Services, and Geoff Spencer, former CEO of DB Cargo (UK) talk through the challenges faced to get commercially competing companies to collaborate to deliver a better, safer railway.
3: Confidential reporting: reducing railway risk
Catherine Baker, director of the Confidential Incident Reporting and Analysis Service (CIRAS), talks about how the confidential reporting service works. She discusses the types of incidents and reasons for calls, and examples of the results that CIRAS achieves.
2: Signals passed at danger: reducing railway risk
Trevor Parkin of East Midlands Railway and Chris Harrison of RSSB talk about what the rail industry is doing to reduce the number of signals passed at danger, and so the likelihood of a potentially fatal train accident.
1: Covid-19, Lockdown and your Mental Wellbeing
Joana Faustino, Work Psychologist at RSSB, talks about the feelings we might be experiencing and some coping strategies for the pressures that we are facing.
