Health and safety strategy and guidance

To help prioritise ours and the industry’s strategic focus we issue chapters, which we update as part of a rolling process, focused on the key risks from across the sector and based on incident data, risk trend analysis and the findings from our inspections, investigations and audits.

Our health and safety regulatory approach explains what we do in regulating health and safety across the rail industry.

We have produced 'Principles for health and safety on the railway' to help dutyholders understand how to meet our expectations for the high-level goals that should be achieved by the railway when complying with the health and safety legislation.

This document sets out the criteria we use to assess an organisation's ability to achieve excellence when controlling health and safety risks.

Guidance and principles on assessing whether risks on railways have been reduced so far as is reasonably practicable and the use of cost benefit analysis in support of safety-related decisions.

Driver controlled operation of passenger trains (DOO) is where the train driver is in control of the door operation of the train.

Designing for simpler, easier to use and safer systems is a health and safety benefit.
 

This page outlines why the rail industry needs to take staff fatigue seriously, and provides links to some key guidance.

We have produced detailed guidance on developing and maintaining staff competence.

We produce internal instructions and guidance in the form of railway guidance documents.