Transport policy
Overview of current and proposed changes to transport policy
- Confidential Incident Reporting & Analysis System (CIRAS)
What is CIRAS?
CIRAS is the Confidential Incident Reporting & Analysis System for the UK railway industry. It is an alternative way for rail industry staff to report safety concerns they feel unable to relay through company safety channels.
- The Railways Bill - Joint TUC and Rail Unions Briefing
- The TSSA and other rail unions continue to work closely with the TUC in campaigning within the Parliamentary process for some important changes to the Railways Bill. A joint campaign brief on the Bill has been produced and circulated to Labour Party members of the Standing Committee considering the Bill as well as the Transport Minister. The brief is designed to highlight our areas of concern and the steps we think the government could take to improve the Bill.
- HSE’s Annual Report on Railway Safety 2003/2004
- The HSE’s annual report on the safety record of Britain’s railways covers the period 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004.
- RSSB: The Railway Strategic Safety Plan 2005
- The RSSB’s document has been developed by the rail industry in consultation with stakeholders, including Department for Transport, the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA), the HSE, Trade Unions and Rail Passenger Council.
- Virgin Cross Country Rail Franchise - Early Day Motion
- Members will be aware of the recent announcement by The Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) to terminate franchise negotiations with Virgin trains on the CrossCountry franchise.
- Interoperability and safety management : the second railway package
- In 1996 the European Commission issued the High Speed Interoperability Directive (96/48EC), the aim of which was to ensure that high speed trains could run freely across the European high-speed network (defined in the UK as the West Coast Main Line, East Coast Mainline, Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Great Western) and that railway equipment could be traded without restriction.
- HSC’s strategy for improving health and safety on railways 2002-2005
- The original Strategy was published in May 2002, which outlined the HSC’s broad priorities for regulating rail health and safety under five specific aims.
- ATP will only happen if Government and Industry work together
- Automatic Train Protection (ATP) has been a controversial topic since the late 1980s following the Clapham Rail crash.
- Railway & Transport Safety Bill
- A summary of a parliamentary briefing the TSSA has circulated to MPs; specifically those MPs who will be scrutinising the Bill as it passes through the various legislative stages before it enters the statute book.
- Railways and Transport Safety Bill - TSSA briefing
- TSSA briefings on the Railways and Transport Safety Bill, covering the Railway Accident Investigation Branch, the Office of the Rail Regulator and the British Transport Police.
- A ’New Deal’ for the railways? - the SRA’s refranchising programme
- TSSA has commissioned an independent report, "A ’New Deal’ for the Railways? - The SRA’s Refranchising programme", written by Dr Jon Shaw of the Centre for Transport Policy at The Robert Gordon University.
- The Cullen Inquiry - February 2001 update
- For the Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry (LGRI-2) the Joint Union submission was forwarded to Lord Cullen on 15 December 2000.
- The Cullen Inquiry - December 2000 update
- A GNER express was derailed at Hatfield on the ECML on 17 October 2000, killing four passengers. The cause was quickly identified as a broken rail.
- The Cullen Inquiry
- Following the tragic train crash at Ladbroke Grove on 5 October 1999 the Health and Safety Commission announced that a public inquiry would be chaired by Lord Cullen and would be divided into two parts.
