Andrew Sharpe

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19 March 2004
The RSSB Research and Development Programme
Andrew Sharpe Head of RD Rail Safety and
Standards Board
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RSSB

• Long-term safety strategy
• Railway Group Safety Plan
• Safety performance information and risk modelling
• Railway Group Standards
• Representation of the UK in Europe (TSIs)
• Formal Inquiries
• Research and Development
• National Initiatives
• Systems Authorities or Systems Interface
  Committees

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RSSB RD Objectives

• Improve understanding of safety risk
• Identify and evaluate ways of reducing safety
  risk
• Identify and evaluate ways of reducing the cost
  of delivering a safe railway
• Identify and evaluate ways of improving the
  quality and cost-effectiveness of safety
  management

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RSSB RD Objectives

• Create awareness of the means of improving safety
  or reducing costs (e.g. good practice guides,
  technology transfer)
• Improve understanding of stakeholder expectations
  for safety, and thereby improve decision-making
• Through risk, cost, and prioritisation studies,
  support decision-making about the priorities for
  investment
• Identify and evaluate ways of improving the
  railway industrys communications with
  stakeholders, including passengers and the
  general public

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RSSB RD Objectives

• Stakeholders in and around the industry are
  engaged in the research programme
• Outputs from the research programme are of high
  quality, intellectually robust and practically
  oriented
• Research is conducted and managed in a
  cost-effective way, delivering value for money
• Research is progressed in a timely manner without
  unnecessary delay and making best use of
  resources
• The budget for research is appropriate to the
  business need, and expenditure is within budget.

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Scope of RSSB RD

• Safety including health, welfare, and security
  and the cost of achieving it
• RD and its preparation for adoption by
  stakeholders
• The National Rail network of Great Britain
• Passengers, workforce, and public as affected by
  the railway
• All periods in the future, with the emphasis on
  delivering improvements over 2 to 10 years

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Stakeholders in RSSB RD
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RSSB RD Topics
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Questions for Today

• Safety risk is a part of business risk managing
  safety is one part of managing the railway.
• Bearing in mind our objectives, are we missing
  anything major?
• What should be on the wider RD agenda that RSSB
  should be involved in?

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Contact
andrew.sharpe_at_rssb.co.uk