Employee health and wellbeing underpins the operational performance of our industry. Our digital transformation in health and wellbeing is a significant milestone. It will provide evidence to inform company strategies and support leaders in creating a culture of trust and openness.
Until now, sharing information to manage failure, faults, and defects has been difficult. This is due to system complexity and lack of industry agreement. This will start to change in 2024, because we will publish the National CCS Defect Recording, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (DRACAS).
create a long-term health and wellbeing data strategy to reduce the cost of ill health and make meaningful improvements in employee wellbeing. This will help industry save £45m over 5 years, costs caused by sickness and presenteeism.
increase the value of confidential reporting. This will mean that members can also improve safety through listening to workers’ concerns.
identify good practice and new methods for sharing and collecting asset data. This will improve safety and reliability. We will publish the Data Sharing Charter for the National CCS DRACAS. This has potential benefits of £231m over the next 10 years.
support delivery of the rail transformation programme. This will help our members to apply advanced capabilities for competence management.
improve management of the dynamic risks associated with underline bridges. We will focus on underline bridges where passenger vehicles operate at speeds above 100mph (160kph). This reduces the risk of bridges failing and affecting performance and makes assessments cheaper.
complete Carmont-related risk modelling research. We will use this research to produce a tool for evaluating the benefits from devices to guide derailed trains.
lead delivery of the Rail Health and Safety Strategy. An operations, risk and safety conference will be delivered to members to show good practice.
assess and address any sector safety concerns from rail reform and changes to the railway system.
develop tools to manage train accident risks associated with Signals Passed at Danger and overspeed. This includes the upgraded architecture and user interface for the improved RAATS2 tool to reduce likelihood of trains apprehending rail signals.
deliver the driver alertness and attention monitoring system trial. The trial output recommendations will provide advice on fatigue risk management to industry and reduce train accident risk.
improve the sector’s capability in risk modelling. This includes responses to weather events and changes to maintenance methods.
use strategic foresight methods to help members to identify challenges, and emerging and future risks.
