Health and safety

Registers of doctors, psychologists and training and examination centres

27 October 2025

Only recognised doctors, psychologists and training and examination centres listed can carry out the examination or training and examination of train drivers.

Register of Authorised Types of railway Vehicles

23 October 2025

This page lists vehicles registered on the UK Register of Authorised Types of railway Vehicles (the UK Register), kept by ORR.

Interoperability authorisations

23 October 2025

Details of all the new, major, upgraded or renewed infrastructure or rolling stock projects we have authorised into service since 2019.

ORR authorises new Beaulieu Park station ahead of opening

16 October 2025

Risk Management Maturity Model (RM3)

6 October 2025

Helping the rail industry to achieve health and safety excellence.

Great Western Railway fined £1m following fatal 2018 droplight window incident

3 October 2025

Great Western Railway (GWR) has today been fined £1 million and ordered to pay more than £78,000 in costs after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety law, following an investigation and prosecution by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).

Assessing the costs and benefits of health and safety interventions in rail

18 September 2025

As the combined safety and economic regulator for Britain’s railway, we reviewed how costs and benefits are assessed for safety initiatives, and whether reasonable practicability is systematically tested by dutyholders.

ORR welcomes industry progress on improving cost effective rail safety decisions

18 September 2025

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has today welcomed the progress made by industry towards the recommendations it set out as part of joint work with the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) and Network Rail to improve health and safety decision making.

ORR authorises significant upgrades to Newquay station

3 September 2025

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has authorised significant upgrades to Newquay station in Cornwall. The station’s second platform has been reintroduced, and the project is part of a wider scheme to allow coast-to-coast services to operate, including the introduction of a new train passing loop at Goss Moor, and the upgrading or removal of level crossings along the line.

Health and safety by design

1 September 2025

Health and safety by design aims to eliminate or reduce risks through identifying potential risks at the design stage and taking steps to reduce or eliminate them.

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