ROLLING STOCK AND TRACTION
“It’s been likened to to free consultancy. It’s not designed to trip up; it’s designed to identify good practice and equally, where poor practice is identified, you work with a supplier to change that.”
After the confirmation of RISAS certification, Porterbrook operations director Alex White said: “RISAS is tangible proof of our
capabilities in
controlling the risk generated by procuring rolling stock maintenance and overhaul requirements.”
Re-modelling supplier assurance
RSSB is also working on another linked project, re-modelling supplier assurance, which is currently costing the industry £100m a year.
Evans said: “We reckon we can save significant amounts of that by improving its effectiveness and efficiency, firstly by aligning requirements to cut out duplication and overlap.”
He said that while RISAS is a thorough and ‘deep-dive’ assessment and not a ‘certificate- and-forget process’, “it’s still a snap shot in time”, hence the decision to look into further developing performance feedback. That would involve the client of the certificated supplier giving feedback on their experience in working with that supplier.
“That means we can either manage any issues immediately as they arise, and/or at least input that into tailoring the assessment or re- assessment when it comes around, so we can focus on those things in particular and re-define our approach to these assessments in the future.
“At the end of the day, we have a shared supply base as an industry, and so many buyers experience the same problems with the same suppliers. However, they then try to manage it individually, rather than together as an industry. In our future model, we’d want to take this RISAS philosophy to a new level and assurance in general.”
A new risk methodology RSSB
is developing a risk
methodology, to be applied to all products and services procured by GB rail rather than just the existing RISAS family, determining for each of them, based on risk, a standard assurance requirements and interventions model. This will increase the number of products and services assured by a RISAS- type philosophy.
Evans explained: “There will be a methodology produced, which – subject to industry approval – can be adopted and used by SMS duty holders with confidence. It is expected that it will increase the application of RISAS-style approach, as a result.”
Recognition and acceptance between schemes will become more important. Evans said: “For example, a train integrator may have IRIS [International Railway Industry Standard] approval, and yet at the moment a supplier may still be subjected to a further assessment process which may mirror that existing approval to a large extent. The future modelling seeks to recognise existing certifications.
“It would assess by exception based on gap analysis using the future risk methodology assessment models. It’s much more efficient and much more effective and will reduce costs to industry and its
suppliers.” Brian Evans
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The five Rail Industry Supplier Approval Bodies (RISABs)
Halcrow Group Limited SGS Correl Rail Limited Railway Approvals Limited Lloyds Register Rail Limited Atkins Rail
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