Digital safety strategy

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Our digital safety strategy sets out our vision and approach for improving the management of health and safety risks arising from digital systems. 

We have published our Digital safety strategy. The following themes summarise the principal digital safety issues facing the rail sector. More detail is provided in the Digital safety strategic risk chapter.

  1. Digital failures differ from electro-mechanical failures
  2. Poorly controlled change is a primary trigger
  3. Interface and integration risk
  4. Autonomy and automation shift risk boundaries
  5. Supply chain and third-party dependency
  6. Data integrity
  7. Fail-safe and resilience risks
  8. Malicious disruption risk
  9. Industry maturity variability

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ORR digital safety strategy

28 September 2026
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Our digital safety strategy sets out our vision and approach for improving the management of health and safety risks arising from digital systems.