All Party Parliamentary Rail Group

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All Party Parliamentary Rail Group

• Bill Callaghan
• Chair, Health and Safety Commission

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Points to cover

• Statistical Background
• Evidence on costs
• Standards
• CAA model ?
• Risks of changing the current model
• What is the question to which moving HMRI away
  from HSC/E is the answer

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Train incidents
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SPADs
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Train Accidents
     
 
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Evidence on Costs

• Costs a real issue for Britains railways
• Other drivers e.g. WCML
• Safety and Performance two sides of the same coin
• What HSC/E regulations and actions have put up
  costs?
• ORR study
• Industry anecdotes

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Standards

• The rail industrys own standards regime needs to
  be improved to become fully effective
• More involvement by industry to challenge and
  influence their own standards
• RSSB and HSE have separate functions
• RSSB beginning to tackle issue
• Have offered HSC/E help
• BUT, better project management and basic cost
  control will be more fundamental in reducing
  costs in the industry.

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A CAA Model?

• Opposed by HSE, ORR and rejected by Cullen and
  HMG in 2001
• CAA model means more complexity
• ORR does not have the expertise
• Would distort its functions
• Prosecutions
• Role of BTP?

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Risks

• Safety risks no evidence that change will
  improve or maintain safety
• Could lead to cost increases
• Political risks
• New regulator could be more risk averse
• Increasing threat of civil litigation

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Conclusion

• Why? Railway industry would like to choose its
  own regulator
• HSC/E model successful not dysfunctional
• DWP Select Committee evidence
• Support from wide range of stakeholders,
  including LUL
• Main Line railway the odd man out