The Rail Safety and Standards Board Podcast

We're joined this month by Johnny Schute, our Chief Operating Officer. Johnny speaks with us about RSSB's unique whole-system perspective and what that means for the GB rail industry. 

He touches on the value it generates, the efficiencies it enables, and how it helps us strive for safety while also ensuring cost reduction, revenue growth, and improved service reliability and resilience for our members.

Find out more at https://www.rssb.co.uk/our-business-plan

This month we're joined by Marcus Dacre, RSSB’s Head of Risk and Safety Intelligence.

He talks with us about the importance of having good quality health and safety data in the rail industry. Marcus also covers the work that got us to this point, what the future holds, and the improvements we're making to SMIS to aid better data capture. He finishes up with a discussion of some standout stats from our 2024 Annual Health and Safety Report.

Find out more at rssb.co.uk/risk-and-safety-intelligence

Welcome to another episode of the RSSB podcast! This month we're joined by Dougie Hill, who is Chair of the National Freight Safety Group. He talks about the freight landscape in 2024, what it'll take to safely meet the government's rail freight growth target, and what RSSB is working on to make this happen.

Find out more about the NFSG here: www.rssb.co.uk/national-freight-safety-group

Welcome to another episode of the RSSB podcast! This month we're joined by Tracy Orlandi, who is Head of Wellbeing and Occupational Health at East Midlands Railway. She talks about the progress being made in rail employee health and wellbeing, areas where gaps remain, and what it'll take to elevate health to the same level as safety in the rail industry.

Correction at 01.23: The RSSB mental health survey was conducted in 2021.

For more information on the health workshops Tracy mentioned, contact [email protected].

This month we're joined by Thom Rawson, RSSB's Sustainable Rail Principal, to talk through the impact the Sustainable Rail Blueprint has had so far. He also covers how we're helping rail organisations embed it, how we're facilitating industry collaboration on sustainability, and what's next.

Find out more at https://www.rssb.co.uk/sustainability/the-sustainable-rail-blueprint

Welcome to another episode of the RSSB podcast! Today, join four members of our Executive Committee — Johnny Schute (Chief Operating Officer), Keith Hanlon-Smith (Chief People Officer), Hannah Kingsley (Chief Finance Officer), and Paul McLaughlin (Chief Commercial Officer) — as they outline industry's current challenges, discuss RSSB's priorities in addressing those, and introduce our new 'strategic multipliers'.

You can find out more about our 2024–2025 Annual Business Plan at: https://www.rssb.co.uk/about-rssb/who-we-are/our-business-plan.

Welcome back to a new season of the RSSB Podcast. In this episode, we’re joined by RSSB Chief Executive Mark Phillips. Mark takes us through our five-year Strategic Business Plan covering 2024–2029, pulling out some of the key priorities along the way. He’s particularly excited to see how rail can leverage some of the technological and digital advancements taking place. Listen now to learn more about what we’re hoping to deliver to industry in the next few years.

Related information

Strategic Business Plan 2024-2029: https://www.rssb.co.uk/about-rssb/who-we-are/strategic-business-plan-2024-29

Rail has been the most environmentally-friendly form of long distance transport for many years, and now needs to reduce its carbon emissions even further. George Davies, director of sustainability at RSSB, and Martin Watt, counsel at global law firm Dentons, discuss the challenges and opportunities of net zero carbon for rail.

The significant trends in safety risk from 2022-2023, and what's being done to keep our railway one of the safest in the world.

01:19  About Robert Sigrist
01:55  The work of the RSSB Risk and Safety Intelligence Team
02:55  The significant safety findings for 2022-2023
04:03  Changes in public behaviour, trespass and sitting on the platform edge
05:09  The trend in signals passed at danger
06:16  Issues around asset integrity, the whole system risk model
07:20  Some safety statistics, summary and close

Related information:
The Annual Health and Safety Report: https://www.rssb.co.uk/safety-and-health/risk-and-safety-intelligence/annual-health-and-safety-report 

Are you getting the best value from your assets? Could your asset management approach be improved? In this episode we look at ISO 55001 as a possible framework for better asset management.

00:53  Asset management in today’s economic context

01:59  What to include in an asset management approach

02:15  Which framework to use for asset management

03:23  What’s in ISO 55001

04:25  The what to do, not how to do it

04:48  Understanding the context of your own organisation

05:40  Why a rail organisation would want to adopt ISO 55001

06:40  Selecting the standards that work for your organisation

07:54  Allocating and prioritising the right resources to your plan

09:03  Finding the right (external) resources to implement your plan

10:22  Is this the right thing for your organisation? Do you have the data to answer the question?

11:50  Some examples of the ROI from implementing ISO 55001

12:50  Use ISO 55001 as a tool; it’s not the answer

13:30  Summary and close

You may be interested in

Getting started with ISO 55001 https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/Asset-Management/Getting-started-with-ISO-55001/ 

Introducing ISO 55001 Maximizing the value of your assets– PDF download (1.2 MB) https://www.bsigroup.com/LocalFiles/en-GB/iso-55001/resources/ISO-55001-Client-Guide.pdf 

ISO 55001 supports UN Sustainable Development Goals 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, and 13. https://www.iso.org/sdgs.html