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

3. Rail Safety Leadership
GB lead
Collaboration

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Identified improvement areas
GB lead (new approach)
Collaboration

8. 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:
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Architecture to facilitate collaboration

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Collaboration
GC / GB joint?