Rail Safety Summit 2024

Rail Creative

Schedule

The day's schedule

Listed below is the schedule for this year's event, along with an overview of the talks that will be taking place on the day.

Please note: This line up is subject to change so please keep checking back to this page.

Speakers

Who will be speaking at this year's event?

Colin Wheeler BSC ENG C ENG FICE FPWI

Welcome

Tue 12th March 2024 at 09:30

Andrew Hall BEng CEng Eurlng FIET

What can we learn from the Salisbury accident ?

Tue 12th March 2024 at 13:15

- A brief description of the planned purpose, capability and functionality of GCRE, which will become a major new opportunity to improve safety across the rail sector through far greater facilities to test and prove all sorts of systems, technology and process

- An update on progress towards delivering GCRE

- Description of the various opportunities to improve railway safety through a number of example areas such as:

removal of the human from the loop in testing
faster testing and development of new technology and innovations to support faster implementation of safety improvements
risk-free environment for testing novel and new types of safety systems
a representative environment to train people on the railway and its systems
risk free representative testing of level crossing and user worked crossing systems

- Further discussion of our low carbon sustainable construction and net zero railway operation goals.

Ben Davies

Prosecution Trends

Tue 12th March 2024 at 15:30

The ORR’s recent enforcement action over the past 5 years

Prosecution trends covering the following:

Number of prosecutions.

Trends in fine sizes; biggest fines, average fine etc.

Areas prosecuted – unauthorised access, overhead line maintenance etc.

The sentencing guidelines & their application.

Reveiw of cases/fines and set them into context – provide some more detail.