Health and safety guidance

Stage 5 – Capture performance information and update bow tie/risk profile

20 May 2015

The Risk Management Maturity Model (RM3) provides a useful mechanism to understand the capability of the organisation to sustain (or improve) high levels of effective control ie to understand why an organisation is performing as it is. Information captured from the audits can be used to help inform the RM3 evaluation.

Stage 4 – Create/amend the assurance (inspection) framework

20 May 2015

This stage tests the assumptions made in relation to the controls and their level of effectiveness, and also implements the monitoring arrangements determined in stage 3.

Stage 3 – Establish the vulnerability of the system and the critical controls

20 May 2015

Once the risk profile has been established (the bow ties) it becomes possible to establish the vulnerability of the organisation to the identified hazards and the criticality of the controls.

Stage 2 – Understand the hazard and its control using bow tie analysis

20 May 2015

Assurance that the health risks are being effectively and efficiently managed can only be achieved if there is a full understanding of the health risk profile of the organisation, proportionate to the significance of the risks

Stage 1 – Identify the hazards and who might be harmed

20 May 2015

This is the foundation of the assurance framework and will ensure that any risk analysis will build on a sound legal basis.

Why is assurance of health risk management important?

20 May 2015

Taking care of the health of employees is important. It is a legal requirement, but is also a foundation of a sustainable, motivated workforce.

Guidance on health risk management assurance

20 May 2015

This guidance is aimed at assurance practitioners, such as those who have responsibility for ensuring that health is effectively managed in the organisation, as well as ORR inspectors.

Revising railway safety regulations: Railway Safety (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1997, Railway Safety Regulations 1999 and Railway Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001

8 July 2014

In 2014, as part of the Government's 'Red Tape Challenge' to reduce unnecessary secondary legislation, we consulted on our proposals to revoke the Railway Safety (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1997, Railway Safety Regulations 1999 and Railway Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001 (together ‘the current Regulations’) and replace them with a new set of regulations. The decision

Reporting occupational diseases

14 January 2014

Advice on what railway industry occupational health diseases that must be reported to us under RIDDOR can be found on this page.

Serious incidents requiring notification by telephone

14 January 2014

This page contains a list of fatalities, serious injuries and serious dangerous occurrences that need to be notified to us by telephone.

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