What are you doing/aiming to do for road safety?
The RSSB Business Plan 2009-14 contains the following section on Road-Rail risk:
Support to the national Road Rail Interface Safety Group and local Road Rail Partnership Groups.
Development and enhancement of risk assessment and ranking tools.
Development of route and company specific road rail risk profiles and improved planning mechanisms to efficiently coordinate improvement actions.
The role of the Road-Rail Interface Safety group (R-RIS) is to steer the work of the rail industry in increasing awareness of the hazards and risk at level crossings, bridge strikes and other incursions by motor vehicles onto the railway, arising from inappropriate behaviour. This includes examining public policy and making recommendations to simplify and consolidate regulatory matters covering safety at level crossings, including road traffic and highway matters, planning guidelines for development and the effective prosecution of offenders in the interest of public safety.
The R-RIS will adopt the approach of the "5 Es", that is:
Enabling : The provision of resources through people, procedures and systems to allow the other 4Es to be effective.
Education : Increasing public awareness of the dangers of level crossings and educating pedestrians and road vehicle drivers how to use them correctly.
Engineering : The protection fitted to level crossings through lights, horns, barriers, telephones and signs together with research into other innovative means of increasing safety.
Enforcement : The use of laws to prosecute those who endanger themselves or others by misuse of crossings.
Evaluation : The evaluation of the impact of any initiatives it puts in place for the improvement of safety at level crossings.
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