PUBLICATIONS 

Calls For Development Group Members

AS 7632 Railway Infrastructure – Signage

Using Bio Mathematical Models To Manage Fatigue Guideline

Monitoring Hours Of Work Guideline

Calls For Public Consultation

AS 1085.19 Railway Track Material: Part 19: Resilient Fastening Assemblies

Recruitment And Training Of Network Control Officers Code Of Practice

INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS

RISSB and OTSI Meet

This week the Office of Transport Safety Investigation (OTSI) and RISSB met to explore areas for collaboration to identify areas that could support the rail industry learn and grow from incidents and accidents.

It was agreed that each organisation must work together in a collaborative manner and further explore the following areas:

* Sharing lessons from incidents
* Development of industry Standards
* Research and data (with the appropriate checks and balances to preserve anonymity)
* Communications and engagement
* Development of safety related training courses
* Collaborate on industry priority areas, such as track worker safety and infrastructure resilience.

OTSI and RISSB will meet around 3 times per year to share ideas and learnings. 

ACRI ALCAM Survey Automation Project

This week, RISSB participated in a workshop by ACRI for a very exciting project they’re running – commissioned by the Victorian Railway Crossing Safety Steering Committee (VRCSSC) / Department of Transport (DoT) – to explore how technology can be leveraged to support the data collection for populating ALCAM.

Work like this will help make ALCAM smarter, more streamlined and ultimately add to the value it already brings to industry.  

Queensland Level Crossing Safety Group Meets

The Queensland Level Crossing Safety (QLCSG) has a very important mandate for providing leadership on level crossing strategy and overseeing a Memorandum of Understanding which defines management and funding responsibilities of railway managers and road authorities at level crossings.

RISSB was invited to share its work plan and especially those things related to level crossing safety. It is very pleasing to be able to support the good work being done around industry such as that being done by QLCSG.

EVENTS AND PROGRAMS

Horizons Program 5.0 Members’ Nominations Open Next Week

RISSB’s popular young professionals engagement program, Horizons, will be back in 2023 and next year’s program is shaping up to offer even more opportunities for the best and brightest young minds from industry to connect, network, learn and grow.

Starting in February 2023, Horizons Program 5.0 will include:

* Five forums (3 x 2-day face-to-face and 2 x 0.5 day virtual) all fully facilitated
* A series of webinars
* Presentations from industry leaders including CEOs and senior technical leaders
* Site visits
* Group projects
* Workshops.

Plus, we’re offering networking events and the opportunity to meet up and coming leaders from right across the rail industry and Australia.

We’ll be welcoming nominations from members next week, so keep checking your inbox for advice that we’ve started accepting nominations.

Save The Date For Technology and Innovation Conference In 2023

Mark this date in your calendar. RISSB's Technology and Innovation Conference will be held on 8-9 March 2023 at Rydges Sydney Central.  

More details about the conference will be provided in a future The Whistle Board newsletter.

GENERAL NEWS

Are You Cyber Secure?

This week's Optus data breach is a stark reminder that cyber attacks are becoming more and more frequent with infrastructure damage, threats to safety, disruptions, economic loss and data breaches all possible outcomes from compromised technology.

Did you know that in 2018, RISSB published AS 7770 – Rail Cyber Security, the Australian Standard for managing cyber security risk on the Australian railway network and a Rail Cyber Security Guideline the following year to help with the Standard's implementation?

Both documents can be accessed by  members from the 'Products' page on our website.  

News Shorts

Melbourne's push for more freight to be moved by rail

Sydney Metro completes 2,650-tonne concrete pour

Arup-Aurecon Alliance preferred bidder for the Auckland Light Rail project

Report finds 74 per cent of investors believe climate risk has increased over the past year

The UIC is holding a webinar dedicated to  “Safety at work: protecting rail workers from trains”  in  November