30 Jul 2025
AS 7457 Management of PAE Events
The closing date for comments – Monday 29 September 2025
The AS 7457 Management of PAE Events draft is now open for Public Consultation.
How this product helps the rail industry
This Standard aims to ensure that Proceed Authority Exceeded (PAE) events which pose a critical risk to railway operational safety, are managed in a consistent manner to reduce the likelihood of recurrence and minimise the potential consequences and impact on the persons involved.
It provides the requirements to support the immediate actions following an event with a focus on the wellbeing of rail safety workers involved in the occurrence, moving of rail traffic, investigation elements specifically focussed on PAE considerations and ongoing communication.
About
This product underwent a review which focussed on aligning the product to latest updates on PAE categorisation under the Rail Safety National Law (RSNL) and ONRSR Guideline as well as the recently published Guideline Rail Traffic PAE Risk Management. The use of the term SPAD has been updated to encompass Proceed Authority Exceedance events.
A greater focus on human factors and just culture approach to post incident management aims to provide consistency and harmonisation among operators when managing PAE events.
How to contribute
AS 7457 Management of PAE Events will be available for public consultation for 60 days. All interested parties are encouraged to provide comments during this time.
It is available to download here.
To make comments on the draft, please use the commenting tools in Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader to comment in-line with the text. If needed you can find instructions here.
NOTE: There is a recognised fault with some versions of Adobe Acrobat where a message displays ‘This is restricted file – The owner of this file has locked it from receiving comments or other changes.’ This message is incorrect and does not prevent you from adding comments to the PDF and saving the file prior to emailing to RISSB.
Please return your PDF with comments to jmatheson@rissb.com.au by Monday 29 September 2025.
As the rail industry’s accredited Standards Development Organisation (SDO), RISSB continues to collaborate with government, rail operators and industry leaders to improve the efficiency and harmonisation of the Australia and New Zealand’s rail network, ensuring national interoperability, safety and sustainability into the future.