1. 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

2. 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 year history.
In April 2016, started the role of monitoring Highways England

3. Our Goal is reduced harm…
Vision: Zero industry caused fatalities and ever-decreasing health and safety risk.
Excellence:
In asset management and operations; and
In health and safety management and culture;
Result:
Better management capability ;
Reduction in risks;
Reduction in harm; and
Reduced likelihood of catastrophic incident.

4. 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.

5. What is ORR’s interest in BIM?
As a combined safety and economic regulator:
Interested in ‘engineering out’ health and safety risk during the design phase.
Reduce capital costs.
Reduce maintenance costs.
Improve efficiencies
Enhance the planning process.
Increase information availability over the whole lifecycle of assets.

6. Goal setting principles for railway H&S
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, de- commissioning 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.

7. Improve integration of design
Collaboration.
Reduction of costs – all online.
Reduces risk of miscommunication.
Incompatibility leads to
Increased cost.
Increased time.
Increased safety risk.

8. Optimise designs between contractors
Helps to reduce costs.
Deliver efficiencies in construction and operation
Costs
Safety

9. Allows testing of construction options
Helps to confirm constructability in the context of;
Costs
Time
Health and safety benefit.

10. Allows efficient transfer of information
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.

11. Better ‘as built’ information
Reduces reverse engineering
Prevents exploration of assets to find out information.
Efficiency
Improved maintenance history
Electronic records give potential for improved forecasting and adaptive maintenance.

12. Any questions?