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 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 […]
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 […]
