Activities

The Safety Managers Group is currently progressing a number of activities, some of which are being run jointly with the Rail Safety Regulators Panel. The key current projects/activities are:

• The Rail Safety Worker Register
• Generic Risk Management Project
• A project to reduce Safety Audit Duplication 
• Network Security and Trespass information sharing 
• Formal Qualifications and Training for Rail Safety Managers.

Joint Industry/Regulator activities

In the spirit of co-regulation and cooperation, the rail industry, represented by the ARA, is actively involved in a number of activities with the regulators.

Rail Safety Consultative Forum (RSCF)

The Rail Safety Consultative Forum (RSCF) is a forum composed of Regulators and Industry Safety Managers, and exists to provide a means of providing exchange of views and information between the Safety Managers Group and Regulators.

It is co-chaired by the ARA and the Chair of the Rail Safety Regulators Panel (RSRP) in alternating fashion.

Co-Regulatory Performance Log

Due to the implementation of National Model Legislation, Regulation and Guidelines in all jurisdictions from 1 July 2007, there is a need to implement a means of monitoring how well co-regulatory regimes are implementing the legislation.

The intent of this project is to monitor co-regulatory consistency across jurisdictions and conformance to the intent of Model Legislation within jurisdictions, both immediately prior, during and after the transition phase.

More information will follow as the project nears implementation phase.

Rail Resource Management (RRM) Project

Safety Culture Tool