Rail Safety Summit 2024

Schedule

The day's schedule

Listed below is the schedule for this year's event, along with an overview of the talks that will be taking place on the day.

Please note: This line up is subject to change so please keep checking back to this page.

Speakers

Who will be speaking at this year's event?

Colin Wheeler BSC ENG C ENG FICE FPWI

Colin Wheeler BSC ENG C ENG FICE FPWI

Welcome

Tue 12th March 2024 at 09:30

Abigail Patterson

Abigail Patterson

An update of our Health & Safety Management system.

Tue 12th March 2024 at 09:40

Laura Reardon

Laura Reardon

Safety Risk Management Framework: A Proactive Data Journey

Tue 12th March 2024 at 10:00

Simon Morgan

Simon Morgan

A review of Network Rail's safety performance

Tue 12th March 2024 at 11:00

Chris Knowles

Chris Knowles

The refreshed rail industry strategy for health and safety

Tue 12th March 2024 at 11:20

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Steve Taylor CMILT

Steve Taylor CMILT

Incidents of Locked Wheels on Freight Vehicles

Tue 12th March 2024 at 11:40

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Andrew Hall  BEng CEng Eurlng FIET

Andrew Hall BEng CEng Eurlng FIET

What can we learn from the Salisbury accident ?

Tue 12th March 2024 at 13:15

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Richard Hines

Richard Hines

Delivering a healthier and safer railway: Reflections from the regulator and new HM Chief Inspector.

Tue 12th March 2024 at 13:35

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Lord Tony Berkeley OBE

Lord Tony Berkeley OBE

The public’s expectations of transport safety

Tue 12th March 2024 at 13:55

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David Shipman

David Shipman

Improving Railway Safety

Tue 12th March 2024 at 15:00

- A brief description of the planned purpose, capability and functionality of GCRE, which will become a major new opportunity to improve safety across the rail sector through far greater facilities to test and prove all sorts of systems, technology and process

- An update on progress towards delivering GCRE

- Description of the various opportunities to improve railway safety through a number of example areas such as:

  • removal of the human from the loop in testing
  • faster testing and development of new technology and innovations to support faster implementation of safety improvements
  • risk-free environment for testing novel and new types of safety systems
  • a representative environment to train people on the railway and its systems
  • risk free representative testing of level crossing and user worked crossing systems

- Further discussion of our low carbon sustainable construction and net zero railway operation goals.

Ben Davies

Ben Davies

Prosecution Trends

Tue 12th March 2024 at 15:30

The ORR’s recent enforcement action over the past 5 years

Prosecution trends covering the following:

Number of prosecutions.

Trends in fine sizes; biggest fines, average fine etc.

Areas prosecuted – unauthorised access, overhead line maintenance etc.

The sentencing guidelines & their application.

Reveiw of cases/fines and set them into context – provide some more detail.

Schedule

What is happening and when?

09:30

Welcome

Colin Wheeler BSC ENG C ENG FICE FPWI, Host, Rail Media

09:40

An update of our Health & Safety Management system.

Abigail Patterson, Principal Operations Safety Specialist, Network Rail

10:00

Safety Risk Management Framework: A Proactive Data Journey

Laura Reardon, Head of Safety Risk Management, LRSSB

10:20

11:00

A review of Network Rail's safety performance

Simon Morgan, Head of Corporate Safety, Network Rail

11:20

The refreshed rail industry strategy for health and safety

Chris Knowles, Director of System Safety and Health, RSSB

11:40

Incidents of Locked Wheels on Freight Vehicles

Steve Taylor CMILT, General Manager, RWA (Rail Wagon Association)

12:00

13:15

What can we learn from the Salisbury accident ?

Andrew Hall BEng CEng Eurlng FIET, Chief Inspector, Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB)

13:35

Delivering a healthier and safer railway: Reflections from the regulator and new HM Chief Inspector.

Richard Hines, HM Chief Inspector of Railways, Office of Rail & Road (ORR)

13:55

14:15

15:00

Improving Railway Safety

David Shipman, Rail Design Lead, Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE)

15:20

15:30

Prosecution Trends

Ben Davies, Senior Associate, Burges Salmon LLP

15:50