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Gary Cooper & George Bearfield Rail Safety Summit 2018 Gary Cooper & George Bearfield RDG RSSB Either lead – consciously joint work Collaboration

Rail Safety Leadership GB lead Collaboration

Collaboration The Journey to Today Top down national targets plans not appropriate Challenge from previous NR CEO re rail safety performance compared to other sectors Realisation that industry approach not visible to newcomers or non duty holder stakeholders Cross-industry duty holder workshops to determine approach 8 months of drafting with dedicated resource from the RSSB, NR, AD Little Consultation and validation through RDG architecture throughout the process National launch RDG and RSG Reset the industry leaders meeting GC lead Different businesses = different risk profiles Stark realisation that although we were ‘safe’ we could do better and no-one could describe the arrangements nationally Conscious collaboration across industry and partnership RSSB/RDG Hue engagement with industry leaders and subject matter experts across the industry Collaboration

Succeed in transforming Fragmented? Bring together Identify areas where initiatives may help reduce harm Unify & Challenge GC lead I keep hearing the F word BR was no different – the key in BR and now is together we are safer Duty holders trusted to have competence and will have an agreed SMS but how to collaborate more? Signposts not mandates The reference – how do we do this? - LHSBR and IHSM Be a reference point for industry collaboration Succeed in transforming 12 key risk areas 9 management capabilities Collaboration

Collaboration Leading Health & Safety on Britain’s Railways Launched March 2016 RDG’s role: Own the strategy on behalf of industry Oversee implementation IHSM’s role: Cross-industry visible leadership, collaboration and challenge RSSB’s role: Facilitation and independent reporting Expertise and resource for revisions and updates GB lead Collaboration

Identified improvement areas GB lead (new approach) Collaboration

Industry Health & Safety Meeting (IHSM) Leading Health & Safety on Britain’s Railways Industry Health & Safety Meeting (IHSM) GB lead LHSBR Progress Report Quarterly With advice and guidance from: System Safety Risk Group (SSRG) Health and Wellbeing Policy Group (HWPG) Other groups too. Evolving with industry feedback Purpose: Share information Provoke discussion Help inform future progress reports Published on RSSB’s website: Placeholder for hyperlink Architecture to facilitate collaboration

Collaboration Black swans GC lead Black Swans – ‘the loss events that came out of nowhere’ ‘That could never happen’ Huge impact, highly improbable events Depends on the observer. For example, what may be a black swan surprise for a turkey is not a black swan surprise to its butcher Taleb 2007 Collaboration

Black swans are not what you think GC lead Black Swans – ‘the loss events that came out of nowhere’ ‘That could never happen’ Huge impact, highly improbable events Depends on the observer. For example, what may be a black swan surprise for a turkey is not a black swan surprise to its butcher Taleb 2007 Collaboration

Where do we need to go next? A potential black swan? System faults and failures… GB lead New technology coming on board. The railway today may be safe. The railway of tomorrow is a different railway. Complex risks need to be managed, and addressed further back in the supply chain. System Faults can be caused by software and cyber risks and their convergance. We don’t have good visibility? Our our tools good enough? Do we understand the problems well enough? Collaboration

Where do we need to go next? Quantitative leading indicators Revisit risks and maturity Wellbeing to get more attention – the emotional human and financial cases for doing so are overwhelming Attention to job design / job aids Look for signals in the noise Better and easier ways to collaborate more and more often – create an industry Learning Legacy GC / GB joint? Collaboration

Collaboration GC / GB joint?