Health and safety guidance

Our responsibilities and HSE's responsibilities for enforcing asbestos laws and what those laws require.

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

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

This page provides an overview of the types of accidents and incidents that need to be reported and how they can be reported.

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

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