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Occupational Health

WEBDriving health benefits for rail workers. Health practitioners’ experience and advice can play a large part in improving health and wellbeing attainment within rail. A strategic voice of health professionals, sound standards of health provision and access, at a good price, to expertise are all needed to drive health benefits for rail workers.

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The Railway Mental Health Charter (RMHC)

WEBThe Railway Mental Health Charter (RMHC) is a framework to help promote, manage, and support workforce mental wellbeing. The rail industry workforce are exposed to unique working conditions. Shift patterns, challenging demands and working conditions, and exposure to potentially traumatic events are some of the issues that make the …

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Leading Health and Safety on Britain's Railway (LHSBR)

WEBLeading Health and Safety on Britain's Railway is the rail industry’s health and safety strategy. Developed by leaders across a range of rail sectors, this strategy sets out the challenges and activities which need collaborative approaches to deliver a better, safer and healthier railway across Great Britain.

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Annual Health and Safety Report 2022/23

WEBAnnual Health and Safety Report 2022/23. The latest industry performance data, operational learning and risk-reduction activities. 1 / 15.

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Rail Health and Safety Strategy

WEBThe Rail Health and Safety Strategy (the Strategy) builds on previous work and sets out the plan for the next five-years. Drawn on detailed consultation across the industry, it identifies challenges and opportunities for improvement. It covers five key risk areas including, public behaviour, operations, asset management, occupational health and

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Five levels of safety culture

WEB5 levels of safety culture. Key features of each of the 5 levels of cultural maturity underpinning RSSB’s model are given below: Maturity Level. Key Features. Level 5 – Continually improving. The prevention of all injuries or harm to employees is a core company value. The organisation has a sustained period (years) without a recordable

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Mental Wellbeing

WEBMental health and wellbeing are serious issues across the country, affecting all areas of society. NHS England has estimated that nearly half of all adults think that they have experienced a mental health condition at some point in their lives . Given this finding, the chances are we, or someone we know, has been affected. Watch our video to

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When Do Medical Conditions and Medication Become Safety …

WEBKeeping everyone on the railways safe is at the heart of what we do. Deciding whether rail workers that have medical conditions, or are on medication, that can cause sudden incapacity are safe to carry out critical tasks is not simple. Occupational health specialists make subjective assessments, which are often based on a worst-case scenario. This …

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Wellbeing is everyone’s business

WEBWellbeing is everyone’s business. Featured story 11 December 2023. Focusing on health and wellbeing brings unexpected benefits - from saving recruitment costs to reducing risk. We can’t afford to ignore it. Protecting the health and wellbeing of individuals can help everyone in the industry. Anyone who’s worked in rail knows the job …

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Guidance and Good Practice

WEBHere we provide access to a range of good practice guidance, information and supporting services and resources that leaders with health and safety responsibilities should be applying. Our content has direct input and support from organisations, RSSB groups and through cross-industry LHSBR collaboration arrangements. Bowtie Hub.

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Occupational Hygiene

WEBOccupational hygiene is the discipline of protecting worker health by controlling workplace hazards that can cause harm. It is a multi-skilled science that considers, physics, chemistry, biology plus toxicology, engineering, and law with the objective of protecting worker health and wellbeing. Combined, these enable us to anticipate, recognise

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Occupational Health Standards for Rail

WEBOccupational Health Standards for Rail. 10/05/2019. The extent to which individual rail organisations have the capacity to take advantage of the practical implications of such flexibility in the current railway health standards may be limited in view of the lack of in-house senior occupational health (OH) expertise in most railway organisations.

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Wellbeing Champion Programmes: Toolbox and Training Needs

WEBWellbeing Champion Programmes: Toolbox and Training Needs. 31/07/2020. RSSB’s Mental Wellbeing Subgroup and Healthy Behaviours Group have jointly developed resources to share good practice for establishing a wellbeing champion project and a guide to effective training for local wellbeing champions. Join or log in to keep reading.

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Trespass and Suicide Prevention Working Group

WEBThe Trespass and Suicide Prevention Working Group (TreSP WG) is a cross-industry specialist working group that reports to the Trespass and Suicide Prevention Strategy Group (TreSP SG). Its remit is aligned with TreSP SG’s terms of reference and relevant areas set out in Leading Health and Safety on Britain’s Railway (LHSBR). The TreSP …

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Guidance on Medical Fitness for Railway Safety Critical Workers

WEBSynopsis. This document provides guidance for railway undertakings and infrastructure managers on medical fitness for railway safety critical workers and is intended to assist them in understanding their responsibilities in relation to medical fitness and how they may approach the setting of their own medical fitness criteria, where appropriate.

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RED Safety Videos

WEBImproving railway safety one RED video at a time. Used in safety briefings and training sessions across the rail industry, our award-winning RED safety videos help you raise awareness of operational safety issues such as near misses, fatigue and rail adhesion. Each video discusses a particular safety consideration, with an emphasis on the key

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Fatigue Risk Management

WEBFatigue Risk Management. Fatigue is one of the twelve key risk areas the rail industry is addressing in its strategy, Leading Health and Safety on Britain’s Railways. It affects many aspects of the railway's operations. Benefits of joining RSSB. Whatever interest your organisation has in the rail industry, RSSB can help increase your

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