AS 7529.1 Fire Safety Locomotives and Freight

The closing date for comments – Monday 17 November 2025

The AS 7529.1 Fire Safety Locomotives and Freight draft is now open for Public Consultation.

How this product helps the rail industry 

This requirements of this standard will minimise the fire risk on locomotive and freight rolling stock, including from emerging zero emissions technologies, to life of train crew, as well as the risks that a fire may pose to the life safety of other users of the infrastructure.

New zero emissions technologies such as lithium–ion batteries, hydrogen and ammonia are being rolled out in new rolling stock and retrofitted to existing rolling stock. These new technologies have implications for fire safety for those involved in the operation and maintenance of these vehicles. 

This Standard provides a minimum level of fire safety for locomotives and freight rolling stock, including considerations for new technologies.

About

This important fire standard has been updated to include considerations of the emerging zero emissions technologies. As part of the review the existing parts covering locomotives and freight vehicles were combined into one Standard.

This document applies to both the design and construction of new locomotive and freight rolling stock and the maintenance, modification and refurbishment of existing locomotive and freight rolling stock.

How to contribute

AS 7529.1 Fire Safety Locomotives and Freight 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 pdraper@rissb.com.au by Monday 17 November 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.