Transport and Main Roads
Interface Agreements
Transport (Rail Safety) Act 2010 | Factsheet G9
What is an interface agreement?
What is a road?
An interface agreement is a written agreement about managing
risks that provides for the following:
• implementing and maintaining measures for
managing risks
• the evaluation, testing and, if necessary, revision of those
measures
• the roles and responsibilities of each party to the
agreement
• how each party will monitor compliance with their
obligations under the agreement
• a process for keeping the agreement under review and how
any review will be conducted and implemented.
The Act defines a road as:
• an area of land dedicated to public use as a road
• an area of land that is developed for, or is most often used
for the driving or riding of road vehicles or pedestrian
traffic, whether the area is open to the public or only for
private purposes
• land that may be included in a road include a bridge,
culvert, ford, tunnel or viaduct, or a pedestrian or bicycle
path.
Who is required to enter into an interface
agreement?
Rail transport operators are required to seek to enter into
interface agreements with the following:
• other rail transport operators, for the purpose of managing
risks to safety that may arise from their operations, where
those risks are caused wholly or partly by the railway
operations carried out by, or on behalf of, the other rail
transport operator(s)
• roads authorities in relation to managing risks to safety that
may arise because of the existence or use of any rail or road
crossings on state-controlled or local government roads, or
road work on those roads
• private road owners because of the existence of a rail
crossing, if deemed necessary by the rail infrastructure
manager following a risk assessment.
What are the transitional arrangements for
interface agreements relating to rail or road
crossings?
The requirement for rail infrastructure managers and roads
authorities to seek to enter into interface agreements in
relation to rail or road crossings does not apply until 1
September 2012.
Rail infrastructure managers and roads authorities should
begin identifying rail or road crossings and identifying and
assessing risks to safety that may arise because of those rail
or road crossings well in advance of the 2012 commencement
date.
For more information about rail transport operators and
rail infrastructure managers, please refer to the factsheet
Accreditation as a Rail Transport Operator.
What is a rail or road crossing?
A rail or road crossing is a rail crossing, that is a level crossing
or any area where a footpath crosses railway or at substantially
the same level, or a bridge carrying a road over a railway or
bridge carrying a railway over a road.
Find out more
For a full copy of the legislation go to: www.legislation.qld.gov.au
or contact Rail Safety and Security Division:
Phone: 07 3066 2915
Email:
Post:
Web:
[email protected]
GPO Box 673
Fortitude Valley Qld 4006
www.tmr.qld.gov.au
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