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fatalities in one year, based on about a third of the industry (both in numbers of organisations and proportion of road fleet). CIRAS separately received 23 reports in two years of rail staff concerned about long hours and excessive driving for work. Industry now wants to develop more reliable arrangements for reporting and analysing road traffic collision events. The second challenge is establishing
cross-industry consensus with a view to sponsoring information, resources or perhaps ultimately some form of national code of practice if accepted by the industry. By way of example, the oil and gas industry have done this quite well in developing global standards on ‘land transportation safety’ which set minimum expectations for work-related driving but also aim to encourage organisations and contractors to continually improve management of this risk. For the rail industry, a number of
organisations, as well as Network Rail, and the Office of Rail Regulation, have already started research through RSSB to get a better understanding.
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The issue of fatigue An early focus has been road driving
fatigue. The recently-issued briefing DVD, RED 35, adopts its usual dramatic format to reconstruct a story of a seemingly conscientious and responsible team- player rail worker yielding to fatigue and then embroiled in a road traffic accident. Focusing the minds of operational staff, it shows how a wide range of things can align tragically, but also what can be done by everyone to make sure the workforce get to work and home again safely. The video also prompts specific questions for managers to ensure that the potential for road vehicle driver fatigue is incorporated into job design, rostering, work risk assessments, and travel planning for work. We are also generating new guidance
to help staff and their managers identify the risk of fatigue when driving, how to recognise the warning signs and cope with this issue. These will include references to the issues raised in RED 35 and are being distributed to rail companies, along with reminder sheets for staff to keep in the car and awareness-raising posters to put up in canteens, foyers and mess rooms. Encouragingly, a lot of positive existing
information has now been identified to help inform a national code or railway best practice. Apart from the various railway industry forums such as ISLG and
ATOC Safety Forum, RSSB has engaged with ROSPA, the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS), the Institute of Advanced Motorists, the European Transport Safety Council, the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme and the Driving for Better Business campaign to understand what could benefit the rail industry.
The problem is that a lot of this salient
information is fragmented, meaning it doesn’t always lend itself to being readily adopted by rail companies. Instead, RSSB has been tasked with developing a dedicated area on the web for the rail industry to access specific, relevant information on managing road-driving risk and help raise awareness. This will aid embedding of work-related driving risk controls into safety management systems, and boost legal safeguards as well as rail staff safety.
For more information, contact RSSB –
enquirydesk@rssb.co.uk
Ian Moreton is programme manager, Safety Management Systems at RSSB, and is overseeing this programme of work for industry.
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