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Case Study Library

08/01/2022
As the UK's independent body for rail safety and standards, we work proactively with our members to improve rail safety and efficiency through clear and agreed industry standards, safety intelligence and safety risk analysis allowing industry to invest in the right safety improvements and avoid unnecessary expenditure. These RSSB case studies give you a flavour of some of the ways we make a difference.
  • Infrastructure
    • Line side signalling
    • National technical rules for electrification
    • National Values standard 
    • New stations platform standard
  • Passenger and Public Safety
    • Borders Railway PTI
    • Crowd Management Good Practice - Case Study Library
    • Human factors case studies
    • Non-Technical Skills
    • Platform Train Interface
    • Trespass Case Studies and Good Practice
  • Rolling Stock
    • Defective On-Train Equipment
    • GSM-R failure
    • Passenger Train Design
    • Retrofitting in-cab TPWS
    • Retrofitting power door options
  • Safety Intelligence
    • SMIS: The Benefits of Inputting Detailed Cause Information
    • Track Worker Safety Data Insights
    • Risk from soil cutting failures
  • Supplier Schemes
    • RISAS Case Study: Experiencing a Deep-Dive Assessment - Northern
    • RISAS Case Study: Unipart Rail
  • Sustainable Development
    • 4RC Environmental Limited - Diversion of PPE from Landfill
    • Abellio - Aligning Group Activity with Clear Over-Arching Principles
    • AMCO - Local Sustainability Initiatives
    • Amey Inabensa - Innovative Road Rail Access Points
    • Arriva Trains Wales and partners - Orange Wallet Scheme
    • ATC Joint Venture - Identifying High Carbon Materials
    • Change Please - Social Enterprise Coffee Kiosks in Stations
    • Crossrail - Leaving a Learning Legacy
    • Crossrail and Network Rail - Addressing Skills Gaps
    • Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership - Increasing Local Services - Seize the Sunday
    • East Midlands Trains - Reduces Food Waste with Real Junk Food Project
    • Govia Thameslink - Achieving 50001 Certification by Focusing on Traction 
    • Govia Thameslink - Developing Competency in Sustainability
    • GWR - Circular approaches to waste uniforms 
    • Heart of Wales CRP/ Arriva Trains Wales - Heart of Wales Enterprise Network
    • HS2 - Building lifecycle thinking into rail 
    • LMCRP - Dementia and Community Rail 
    • London Midland - Smethwick Rolfe Street station: Regeneration by the community 
    • Midland Metro Alliance - Metro Expansion design carbon savings 
    • National Skills Academy for Rail - Rail Sector Skills delivery plan- Promotion and Attraction
    • Network Rail - Advancing biodiversity with technological innovation
    • Network Rail - Electrification Embodied Carbon Savings
    • Network Rail - High Output Ballast Cleaning System
    • Network Rail - IP Southern Benchmarking
    • Network Rail - Under Sleeper Pads
    • Network rail and partners - Birmingham New Street - a new approach to infrastructure
    • Network rail and partners - Reading elevated railway value engineering
    • RSSB - Tomorrow's Railway and Climate Change Adaptation
    • ScotRail - Engineering for traction energy reduction
    • ScotRail - Responding to legislation to increase recycling
    • Skanska - Measuring social impact
    • Sustainability case studies
    • Transport for London - Reducing whole life carbon
    • Virgin - Catering for waste reduction
  • Taking Safe Decisions and CSMs
    • G-FORCE Case Studies
    • Taking Safe Decisions - Worked Examples
  • Workforce Health and Wellbeing
    • Alstom - Integrating health and wellbeing competencies
    • Colas Rail - Embedding wellbeing into complex delivery projects
    • Colas Rail - Railway Mental Health Charter
    • Delivering Psychoeducation Mental Health Stigma and Time to Change
    • Delivering Psychoeducation on Trauma and PTSD
    • Dementia and community
    • East Midlands Trains tackles PTSD
    • GB Railfreight – promoting mental health through senior leaders
    • Getting in Control of Mental Health
    • Keolis Amey Docklands – tackling work-related violence
    • Irish Rail - how to engage men in health conversations
    • Local Mental Wellbeing Practice - Eurostar’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy
    • Musculoskeletal Disorders Case Studies
    • Occupational Hygiene Strategy Case Study
    • Southeastern - Cab Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Risk
    • Southeastern - Creating a Company-wide MSDs Policy
    • Southeastern - Railway Mental Health Charter
    • TfL and Young People’s Mental Wellbeing in the Changing World of Rail
    • Translink - Wellbeing Champions and H&W communications
    • Transport for London - Musculoskeletal Disorder Risk Assessment of Train Cabs
    • West Midlands trains are ‘Hear to Listen’
    • Why we need to tackle Type 2 Diabetes - A GTR case study
  • Workforce Safety
    • Data Insights Route compatibility standard
    • Just a routine operation
    • Rule Book app
    • The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster
    • The Paddington Rail Disaster
    • The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
    • Track Worker Safety
 
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