Occupational health

ORR's Closing the Gap on Health report provides a comprehensive review of rail industry progress in managing occupational health by the end of our 2014-19 health programme. We have used this evidence-based review to identify our strategic priorities on health for the coming years in a revised occupational health chapter. We also have five position papers on the key health risks in the railway

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

Advice on what railway industry occupational health diseases that must be reported to us under RIDDOR can be found on this page.

An overview of the effects of work on health in the UK and the costs to employers and society and advice on how these health effects can be prevented and where to go for more information.

On this page we explain what the key legal requirements are for managing and controlling the risks from asbestos.

This page provides sources of further guidance on managing work-related stress, including the business case for better stress management.

This page provides examples of how rail companies can learn from others, including links to good practice case studies on managing work-related stress both from within and outside the rail industry.