Network Rail Telecom (NRT) is the company’s national, telecoms asset management function. NRT owns all of the company’s telecoms assets. Close to 20,000km of fibre-optic cable (the UK’s third largest network), backed up by 18,000km of hard cable and 2,500 masts, provide state-of-the-art communication services for the whole railway network. Apart from the technical challenges […]
The safety of people on and around the railway is our priority. Education is key, especially for young people. Our education programme provides teachers, youth leaders, professionals working with young people and parents with resources that will engage young people when talking about rail safety issues. The materials have been developed with teachers to match […]
The Safe by Design (SbD) Buildings and Civils Working Group has recently been changed to the Health and Safety by Design (H&SbD) Buildings and Civils Working Group, as part of a wider programme of updates which are work in progress. It involves Network Rail working collaboratively with its valued supply chain to embed health and […]
The Track Safety Alliance (TSA) is an industry wide group which was formed in 2011 to allow a number of companies across the Track Renewals industry to develop and share best practice. The (TSA) want to drive a step-change in Safety Leadership and Management throughout the organisations delivering track renewals and enhancement activity on the UK railway. […]
Infrastructure Safety Leadership Group (rssb.co.uk) Created in 1996, the long-established Infrastructure Safety Leadership Group, (ISLG) is a high-profile and respected forum which represents the principal contractor and principal designer communities and their supply chains. It brings together rail professionals to collaboratively manage health, safety and wellbeing issues faced by the infrastructure community. ISLG enables: Members […]
What is Sentinel? https://info.railsentinel.co.uk/ Sentinel is one of the premier safety systems in use across the Rail Industry. It provides rail workers with a passport to work on the rail infrastructure across the United Kingdom by using the latest smart card technology. The system uses a secure and trusted database, available as an app or […]
What is Safe by Design/Health and Safety by Design? Irrespective of where and what we design, Safety (including Health and Sustainability) is an integral part of the design process. We need to understand what influences safe design and then adapt our processes – and more importantly our behaviours – to make it instinctive. Design must […]
