UK: A project to address possible under-reporting of employee health and safety concerns and hazardous events is being undertaken by the Light Rail Safety & Standards Board and the confidential safety hotline CIRAS
This has so far completed research focus groups with frontline staff at four tram networks.
The project aims to ‘establish if there’s any evidence of under-reporting of health and safety concerns and incidents on the light rail sector’s front line, as well as exploring in more depth what the causal factors may be’, said Laura Reardon, Head of Safety Risk Management at LRSSB.
‘It will also look at developing recommendations to address any issues found as part of a three-stage approach covering analysis of existing LRSSB data sets, field work with drivers, other tramway staff and safety teams, and a review of the anonymised findings with appropriate potential measures.’
