What is Think RISK? Think RISK is a campaign to help to stop you and your colleagues getting injured at work. Quite simply, it is a series of prompts for you to think through when you’re doing your job, and help identify and manage safety risks more effectively. What do I need to do? […]
In collaboration with supply chain partners Infrastructure Projects have developed NR/L3/OHS/019-IP Level 3 Work Instruction Planning and delivering safe work – Implementation principles for Infrastructure Projects, which shows how Infrastructure Projects implements the core elements of standard 019. Infrastructure Projects approach to implementing standard 019 has been to utilise the competence of Safe Work Leader […]
Raising general awareness of energy efficiency is a key activity in any energy management programme. Often people will go about their daily work without thinking about the energy that they use and whether or not things could be done differently in order to become more sustainable. The toolbox talks that we have designed contain simple […]
Network Rail has a register which contains all applicable Health and Safety Legislation and how it applies to Network Rail. The latest update can be found in the attachments section. For Network Rail staff there is also a mobile application of the Health and Safety Legal (HSL) Register which is available on Network Rail mobile […]
It’s estimated that there are 40.3 million people living in modern slavery worldwide – 136,000 of these in the UK. At Network Rail we’re committed to doing business in a sustainable and responsible way. This includes a commitment to do all that we reasonably can to prevent all forms of modern slavery in our supply […]
Creating a railway that is safe and more resilient to the effects of weather, now and in the future. Appropriately designing, selecting and prioritising weather resilience and climate change adaptation solutions is fundamental to enabling the delivery of a railway that is safe and more resilient to the effects of weather now and in the […]
Please refer to the Attachments column for the latest Do Not Use list. Please contact POVnumbers@networkrail.co.uk for further information.
In 2015 an inter-continental industry subgroup on safety culture was offered the opportunity by the European Commission to develop and deliver a twinning programme across Europe to support learning and sharing across European Union/ European Free Trade Association (EU/EFTA) Member State rail infrastructure manager or an association of EU/EFTA rail infrastructure managers with a focus on […]
Failures or non use of Safety Critical Communications is known to be major or contributing factors when accidents, incidents, near misses and closes calls are investigated. Frontline Safety Critical Communications is vital for the rail industry to continuously improve and learn from lessons to create a safer working environment. Getting safety communications accurate, brief, clear and […]
To enable a sustainable approach to the management of the long term health and wellbeing of our employees, Network Rail has published a standard; ‘Health surveillance for silica and asbestos and the management of diagnosed occupational respiratory conditions’ (NR/L2/OHS/157), to support the proactive management of employees’ respiratory health. The purpose of this standard is to […]
