Company News
KeolisAmey Metrolink strengthens commitment to employee safety
KeolisAmey Metrolink (KAM) has made it easier for its employees to speak up about health and safety concerns by becoming a member of CIRAS...
General Interest
RAIB investigates train overspeeding in Aberdeenshire
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch is looking into how two trains went through an emergency speed restriction between Laurencekirk and Portlethen, Aberdeenshire, on 4...
Company News
New health and safety passport for HS2 workers
HS2 is working with Midland-based Biosite to develop a new initiative that will boost health and safety and competency insight across the supply chainThe...
General Interest
Is white-zone working the answer for the future?
Now that the report on the fatal accident at Margam has been released, it is time to make sure such an incident can never...
General Interest
Safety is all about people
In a footnote to his main article, Colin Wheeler asks whether the lack of face-to-face communication is resulting in an increase in accidents and...
HSEQ
A problem shared is a problem halved
Health and safety concerns may be going unnoticed but reporting them is as important as ever.As the end of 2020 rapidly approaches, CIRAS urges...
Company News
Railway contractor HQ obtains world-first IMMUNE certification
International consultancy and construction company Mace. Which refurbished Birmingham New Street station and is in the process of delivering Brent Cross West, has obtained...
Company News
Morson develops app to check if contractors are ‘fit for work’
Responding to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, rail recruitment specialist Morson Group is preparing to supply its 3,000 remote workers with early intervention technology that...
HSEQ
Who should be responsible?
An informed look at suitability, competences, training and personal accountabilityTrained competences are essential for the safe and reliable operation, maintenance and renewal of our...
HSEQ
Managing competency brings improved safety
James Fox, commercial director and co-founder at 3squared, explains how technology, in the form of digital apps, is consistently driving safety and operational working...
HSEQ
Review: The Rail Safety Summit 2019
This year’s event was the tenth annual Safety Summit. Nonetheless a number of themes featured in the first Safety Summit are evidently still with...
HSEQ
Interim report on Port Talbot track worker fatalities reveals “there was no safe system of work in place”
Network Rail has released an interim report into the
fatalities that occurred at Margam, near Port Talbot in South Wales, on 3 July
2019.It looks...
Featured
Rail Safety Week
Whether it’s the introduction of new rolling stock, timetables or a company structure, change poses a risk to safety and must be considered carefully. That...
Featured
Training in the virtual world
Stewart Thorpe tests out two of the latest virtual reality training toolsWith a whistle pressed against my lips, I take one final look along the...
Featured
Network health clinics
Stewart Thorpe went to the doctors to learn about a bold new approach to occupational healthNew life has been breathed into a derelict building...
Gear+Tech
Safety gear and tech of the future
Stewart Thorpe shines the spotlight on five innovative new safety products for the rail industry which could become commonplace in the workplaceBrightboot - Hi-vis...
Featured
Safestart: Wellingtons, wellbeing and an end to whistles, horns and detonators?
Passenger, worker and community safety is paramount to the operation of the country’s railways. Such is the close relationship between the two that Mark...
Featured
Health, High Output and the new community Challenge
“Basically, it’s Weight Watchers with your mates at work,” explained Steve Featherstone, Network Rail’s track programme director, who is putting his weight behind a new health challenge launched in February. His description of the project might be brief, but its potential impact is anything but. A different type of enhancement programme Titled the Track Safety…