Edition 54, March 2020

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RISSB's COVID-19 Conferences, Training and Meetings Update
Current Public Consultations

NEWS

RISSB's COVID-19 Conferences, Training and Meetings Update

The health and safety of our employees, members and suppliers is of the utmost importance to us and remains a priority for our organisation. Understandably, COVID-19 is causing concern in the rail community with many events being postponed and rail transport operators introducing travel restrictions.  

Last week, we put in place a number of our own measures to deal with this unprecedented global event. The list below is a summary of our position in relation to the conferences, courses and meetings we had scheduled from March - July 2020. The advice is as follows:

• All conferences and forums planned for the first half of 2020 have been postponed until further notice. This includes RISSB’s Rail Safety Conference, RISSB’s Technology and Innovation Conference, the cross-industry Safety Managers Group meeting, the National Track Worker Safety Forum, Horizons 2.0 Forum and the Sharing Investigations Forum. 
   
• RISSB's Chair and Industry Networking Breakfast scheduled for Friday, 3 April 2020  has been postponed. More information, including the new date, will be provided later in the year.
   
• RISSB's Rail Safety Conference will now be held on 27-28 October 2020.  The venue for the rescheduled conference will remain the same – The Aerial Function Centre, UTS.  All pre-existing registrations will be transferred to the new October dates for the conference.  If you have any queries about the postponement of this event, please contact Tina Karas at Informa Australia on +61 (2) 9080 4408 or tina.karas@informa.com.au 
   

• RISSB’s Standard Development Managers will be conducting Development Group and Standing Committee meetings via teleconference or utilising video conference facilities.

• We currently haven’t cancelled any training as a result of COVID-19 and, at this stage, do plan to go ahead with a training course to be held in Port Hedland for BHP. However, depending on the advice from BHP, this course may be postponed.
   
• We’re still running the next Steps in Harmonising Railway Rules meeting on Thursday, 2 April 2020, however this meeting will be run as a teleconference.

We will continue to keep you informed and will notify you if our position changes in relation to any of the aforementioned activities.

In the meantime, if you have any comments or concerns relating to the contents of this story, please do not hesitate to contact the RISSB team on (07) 3724 0000.

Current Public Consultations

AS 7724 Unauthorized movement protection – Operational requirements

AS 7703 Railway signalling – Power supplies

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