Rail passengers

A list of 2013 health and safety notices which allow time for the recipient to comply with the law.

Our inspectors normally enforce health and safety standards by giving advice on how to comply with the law. Sometimes they must order people to make improvements by issuing them with a notice, for example an improvement notice, which allows time for the recipient to comply.

As the safety and economic regulator of the rail industry and Highways England’s monitor, we work with a number of organisations in the railway industry.

The rail infrastructure in the UK is complex and comprises of a number of different bodies. We are the health and safety regulator for the UK’s mainline network and for a number of other forms of transport that run on rail.

We have a responsibility to make sure railway companies protect passengers from crowding health and safety risks.

Advice on what railway industry occupational health diseases that must be reported to us under RIDDOR can be found on this page.

This page contains a list of fatalities, serious injuries and serious dangerous occurrences that need to be notified to us by telephone.

An outline of the rail accessibility legislation enforced by the ORR.

Information and advice for passengers on station safety issues such as platform gaps and stepping distances.

We have a role in ensuring that Network Rail and rail operators do all that is reasonably practicable to manage the risk of crime.