Health and safety guidance

We produce internal instructions and guidance in the form of railway guidance documents.

An explanation of how the Risk Management Maturity Model (RM3) can be used to measure the maturity of management of occupational health risk.

This document sets out the criteria we use to assess an organisation's ability to achieve excellence when controlling health and safety risks.

This guidance aims to bring together the key legal requirements associated with the management of fitness in the workplace.

An overview of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority for Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems) Regulations 2006 (as amended) (EARR).

As part of ORR's strategy to raise awareness on occupational health under our health programme, we will publicise recent cases where formal enforcement action has been taken to secure legal compliance.

We have produced 'Principles for health and safety on the railway' to help dutyholders understand how to meet our expectations for the high-level goals that should be achieved by the railway when complying with the health and safety legislation. It highlights the factors which should be addressed by anyone designing and putting into use new railways or rail vehicles, including major upgrades and