Health and safety

Information on what rail employers need to do to adopt an organisational approach to preventing work-related stress.

Under Part M of Network Rail's Network Code, a party can appeal to ORR against any determination made by the relevant panel of the Access Disputes Committee which it considers to be wrong or unjust because of a serious procedural or other irregularity.

Details of improvement notices and prohibition notices served by our inspectors, and details of prosecutions in England and Wales taken by inspectors and the Procurator Fiscal in Scotland.

Information on health and safety enforcement penalties

Case studies that show examples of good practice in managing railway workers' health are set out below.

Our position on managing work-related stress in the rail industry, highlighting the costs as well as the business benefits of preventing stress before harm occurs.

Information is provided for employers and employees on health in the work place generally, specific health issues, healthy lifestyles and managing health risks

High-level guidance and general principles on assessing whether risks on Britain's railways have been reduced so far as is reasonably practicable.

This section includes guidance on station safety, station and train crowding and rail vehicle accessibility.

ORR has powers of investigation and enforcement to ensure that railway operators are controlling risks posed by infrastructure and railway vehicles.