HSC welcomes rail safety board

The Health and Safety Commission and Executive (HSC/E) have today (Wednesday) welcomed the establishment of  the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB)

HSC chair Bill Callaghan said: "I believe this new body will help create a culture of continuous health and safety improvement by providing leadership on health and safety for the whole of the railway industry."

The creation of a new rail industry safety body was recommended by Lord Cullen in Part 2 of the Ladbroke Grove Inquiry Report. 

RSSB's functions will be to produce the industry's collective health and safety plan, monitor and review its health and safety performance and manage the industry's process for setting safety standards. 

HSE will be working with RSSB to ensure that the standard-setting process takes account of the wider membership of RSSB as well as the wider scope for standards envisaged by Lord Cullen and European developments.

HSE remains the independent healthand safety regulator for the railway industry.