Health and safety

The ‘Railway Work, Life & Death project’ takes a look back at casualties to British and Irish railway staff before 1939.

Ensuring the rail industry remained focused on the basics of health and safety management as it prepares for reform and substantial change, is one of the key messages in the Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) annual report on health and safety on Britain’s Railways.

The Office of Rail and Road, Britain’s railway regulator, has launched a new online learning platform for health and safety professionals to gain a further understanding of how to use the industry’s Risk Management Maturity Model.

We're delighted to bring to you the e-learning solution for our Risk Management Maturity Model, known as RM3 across the industry, who have been telling us for many years that they needed a solution to help their staff know how to use and apply RM3 across their organisations. So, in collaboration with rail industry partners, we embarked on a project to pull together an e-learning solution for how

The first court hearing for the Office of Rail and Road's prosecution relating to the Croydon tram crash took place today at Croydon Magistrates' Court.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) – the primary producer of official statistics for Britain’s railway – has today (19 May 2022) published new data showing that Britain continues to have one of the safest railways in Europe.

On 10 May 2002, seven people sadly lost their lives and many more were injured in a train derailment at Potters Bar. 20 years on, one of our safety inspectors provides an account of attending the scene and subsequent investigations.

London’s Elizabeth line has received its final authorisations of its trains, stations, and infrastructure from the rail regulator ahead of its opening on Tuesday 24 May.