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26. As digital technologies evolve, dutyholders must:

  • Continually review their digital risk exposure;
  • Share learning from incidents and near-misses;
  • Strengthen and maintain digital competence across technical and safety disciplines; and,
  • Improve resilience and recovery planning;
  • Embed digital safety risk management throughout the supply chain and the life of the system;
  • Ensure effective assurance processes and governance arrangements are in place to control these risks; and,
  • Embed security and safety by design into new systems.

27. ORR will continue to use a combination of proactive inspection, investigation, stakeholder engagement and regulatory intervention where necessary to support continuous improvement in digital safety management across the rail industry.