ORR protects the interests of rail and road users, improving the safety,
value and performance of railways and roads today and in the future
Future Rail and Road
developments
Johnny Schute OBE
Deputy Director, Railway safety.
Deputy Chief Inspector of Railways.
The Office of Rail and Road
15 February 2017
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Office of Rail and Road
We are the independent Health & Safety and economic regulator
of railways in Great Britain. Our economic regulator work focuses
on the mainline railway but our safety responsibilities cover all
railways in GB.
■ Set up in 1994; our role derives from UK and EU legislation;
■ Independent of ministerial control; public interest objectives are
set by Act of Parliament; and
■ Economic regulation role similar to other UK utilities and thus
well understood. Safety regulation of railways transferred from
the Health and Safety Executive to ORR in 2006, but has a 175
year history.
■ In April 2016, started the role of monitoring Highways England
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Our Goal is reduced harm…
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Vision: Zero industry caused fatalities and ever-decreasing health and
safety risk.
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Excellence:
– In asset management and operations; and
– In health and safety management and culture;
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Result:
– Better management capability ;
– Reduction in risks;
– Reduction in harm; and
– Reduced likelihood of catastrophic incident.
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We check compliance and push for excellence in risk
management…
■ Checking legal compliance:
– Businesses control the risk, through their Safety
management System.
■ Pushing for excellence in management by businesses
– because excellent management systems means:
• more likelihood of compliance every day; and
• more likelihood of control of risks every day.
■ Management maturity model helps us evaluate the capability of
managers and companies to control risks.
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What is ORR’s interest in BIM?
As a combined safety and economic regulator:
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Interested in ‘engineering out’ health and safety risk during the
design phase.
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Reduce capital costs.
Reduce maintenance costs.
Improve efficiencies
Enhance the planning process.
Increase information availability over the whole lifecycle of assets.
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Goal setting principles for railway H&S
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Principle 1: H&S by design
‘The railway shall ensure the elimination, or reduction and control,
of H&S risks in infrastructure, railway vehicles, products or
processes.
The railway shall achieve this by considering and addressing early
at the planning and design stage any potential risks from the
construction of the infrastructure and railway vehicles and
manufacture of equipment, so that it is safe to use on the railway
during installation, commissioning, operation, maintenance, decommissioning and dismantling or demolition.’
Regularly evaluate the impact of planning and design decisions
on all aspects of the lifecycle of the works, plant or equipment,
beginning at the earliest stages of a project and continuing as
options are selected and changes are made.
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Improve integration of design
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Collaboration.
Reduction of costs – all online.
Reduces risk of miscommunication.
Incompatibility leads to
– Increased cost.
– Increased time.
– Increased safety risk.
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Optimise designs between contractors
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Helps to reduce costs.
Deliver efficiencies in construction and
operation
– Costs
– Safety
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Allows testing of construction options
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Helps to confirm constructability in the
context of;
– Costs
– Time
– Health and safety benefit.
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Allows efficient transfer of information
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Helps maintainers know
– What their assets are.
– How to best plan maintenance
– Flags up those items that need special
attention
– Highlights items that have specific risks.
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Better ‘as built’ information
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Reduces reverse engineering
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Efficiency
Prevents exploration of assets to find
out information.
Improved maintenance
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Electronic records give potential for
improved forecasting and adaptive
maintenance.
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ORR protects the interests of rail and road users, improving the safety,
value and performance of railways and roads today and in the future
Any questions?