Rail operators

The concept of health and safety by design is to preferably eliminate, and if not eliminate to control, health and safety risks in infrastructure, rolling stock, equipment and processes by early consideration of potential risks and then dealing with those risks at the design stage.

Operators of railway assets must normally comply with conditions in their licences and the Statement of National Regulatory Provisions (SNRPs)

Helping the rail industry to achieve health and safety excellence.

This section contains electronic versions of licences which are in force, listed by company.

We do not approve or grant permission for new or reinstated level crossings.

We monitor performance through analysis of regular reports from Network Rail.