We will develop the industry’s health, wellbeing, and safety strategy informed by emerging risks, future vulnerabilities, better monitoring and data, and cutting-edge analysis to ensure health, wellbeing, and safety responses are effective, impactful, and proportionate.
Our digital transformation in the health and wellbeing area will ensure this area achieves the same systematic and rigorous decision making as in the safety arena.
Our digital transformation in health and wellbeing will provide evidence to inform company strategies and will support leaders in creating a culture of trust and openness to make meaningful improvements in employee wellbeing.
We will provide improved tools and services so industry duty holders and their supply chains can access confidential reporting, insights, shared learning, good practice, and assurance for safety and health.
We will identify changes that can deliver significant improvements in occupational safety, work-related ill-health, and staff wellbeing.
We will support rail reform so that safety and the culture of collaboration is further reinforced, and mitigate any unintended consequences.
We will support the industry in simplifying systems and processes and implementing a strategic workforce plan so that industry dependency on specialist skillsets can be reduced.
We will find ways to improve working conditions so that the rail industry attracts and retains the diverse and high calibre staff needed to operate the railway in the digital age.
We will continue to develop analytical and performance monitoring capabilities to support effective and proportionate decision-making about safety responses.
We will continue to highlight smarter ways to improve safety performance without increasing the regulatory or financial burden on the sector.
We will deliver the DRACAS (Defect Reporting and Corrective Action System) roadmap by engaging with the industry supply chain to create an environment of open data sharing of defects, faults, and failures, developing the capability to help industry analyse how faults and failures could lead to safety incidents.
Smarter and more cost-effective management of system safety and health: As we move towards an increasingly digital railway, the rail industry will have the tools and the ability to face new challenges, emerging risks and vulnerabilities, at network, regional, and route levels.
Rail is able to attract and retain high calibre and diverse staff for the digital age: Harnessing the potential from changes to industry working practices, we will support our members to deliver significant improvements in occupational safety, work-related ill-health, and staff wellbeing.