Explore our resources

By joining RSSB you and your team will have access to a comprehensive range of knowledge to support business performance around health, safety, efficiency and sustainability.

Resources to explore
Explore the many resources you can access by joining RSSB:

Tools and models – to help you visualise and carry out tasks.

Guidance and reports – in the areas of safety, health, standards and research findings.

Newsletters and industry information – latest insights, articles, reports and research.

Standards and Research Catalogues – industry agreed standards and research programmes.

Essential Safety and Health knowledge
Safety and health risks rarely has a single cause. We help organisations recognise and control hazards and build safety and health into everything and every decision. We provide the capabilities and knowledge you need to:

Develop health and safety management tools and approaches.
Identify and analyse the emerging risks.
Use analysis on health and safety data.
Protect and promote employee health, safety and wellbeing.
Make better informed health and wellbeing investment.

The Safety Management Information System is the railway’s national database for recording and analysing safety-related events.

Specialist Engineering Information
The standards we develop define today's railway and enable tomorrow's. They frame choices, lower risks and costs, and help organisations plan with confidence. Through our expertise we support you to:

Improve safety, operations and passenger experience.
Design from scratch, modify or extend infrastructure.
Deliver effective and sustainable change.
Conform to legal requirements.
Use and apply of standards.

The Red Aspect Approaches to Signals Toolkit helps users to understand cases when trains have approached signals at red.

Innovative Sustainable Solutions
Through work from how best to eliminate carbon and air pollution, to measuring the benefits rail provides to society, we can help your organisation work towards its sustainability targets. We support our members to:

Understand how to reduce the carbon footprint throughout their supply chain.
Assess sustainability performance and strategy and identify ambitions and priorities.
Monitor and measure the social value.
Better understand how they perform on sustainable development.

Invaluable Research Findings
Our research helps overcome complex issues to give our members new insights and support to see opportunities for new ways of working to make a difference. Our work will help you to:

Grow awareness of emerging technologies and trends.
Use data to inform understanding and decision making.
Exploit the latest big data analysis techniques to enhance decision making, reduce cost and risk.
Provide guidance for innovators new to the sector about the rail environment.

The award-winning Health and Wellbeing Index helps companies to understand, monitor and as a result reduce the causes of factors that compromise the health and wellbeing of emloyees.