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    Working together for better health and wellbeing

    The rail industry believes it can achieve greater business and industry benefits by working together on health and wellbeing. Find out more about how the industry is coming together through the industry roadmap, topic specific groups, health and wellbeing data and many other areas of development.

    Visit Rail Wellbeing Live 2020

    This year sees the launch of Rail Wellbeing Live! Taking place on Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 November 2020, this free, virtual health and wellbeing event is for everyone who works in the rail industry. Hosted by a mix of wellbeing experts, rail people and some surprising famous faces, everyone gets the chance to take part. For the latest information, and to register, visit railwellbeinglive.co.uk

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    Health and Wellbeing topics
    Mental Wellbeing
    Mental health and wellbeing are serious issues across the country, affecting all areas of society. Discover the range of tools, training and resources we’ve designed to help manage and prevent mental ill-health in the rail industry.
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    Employee Wellbeing
    Some of the greatest gains for the rail industry will be in creating better opportunities for high wellbeing levels within railway workers. Mental and physical health factors are being worked upon to support workers to have sustained high levels of wellbeing that are associated with strong productivity levels.
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    Occupational Health
    Health practitioners’ experience and advice can play a large part in improving health and wellbeing attainment within rail. A strategic voice of health professionals, sound standards of health provision and access, at a good price, to expertise are all needed to drive health benefits for rail workers.
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    Health by Design
    An effective method for managing risks is to design out hazards related to new or renewed assets and processes. RSSB has developed resources to support capability improvements in health by design.
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    Health Hazards
    The rail industry manages its health and safety risks and responsibilities with great care. We recognise that there is more we can do in areas such as Vibration, Noise, Dusts and Emissions. The industry is working hard to develop better management techniques in these areas.
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    Passenger and Public Wellbeing
    Keeping passengers and members of the public safe is at the heart of what we do. We look across the network - at engineering, operations and management systems - to identify tactical and strategic opportunities to reduce risks.
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