Course Description
Railways manage safety through structured risk management — identifying hazards, assessing risk, applying controls and demonstrating that risk is acceptable. This is not generic risk management: it is a regulated discipline with its own methods, standards and evidentiary requirements, and it underpins every railway safety case and authorisation.
This course develops practical competence in railway safety risk management. Participants learn hazard identification, risk assessment methods, the common safety method for risk evaluation, hazard logs, safety requirements, and the safety case and authorisation process that governs railway change.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain railway safety risk management and its regulatory basis
- Conduct hazard identification for railway systems
- Apply risk assessment methods
- Understand risk acceptance principles and criteria
- Maintain a hazard log and manage hazards through the lifecycle
- Define and manage safety requirements
- Understand the safety case and its structure
- Support authorisation and change management
How the course is delivered
The course combines railway risk management methodology with practical hazard identification and assessment exercises. Participants work through hazard logs, risk assessment and safety argument scenarios using realistic railway changes.
The programme is grounded in the structured, evidence-based approach railways use to demonstrate safety to regulators.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Railway safety and assurance professionals
- Rail systems and project engineers
- Operations and infrastructure managers
- Regulatory and compliance staff
- Anyone managing railway safety risk
Daily programme
- Railway safety management
- The regulatory basis
- Hazards, risk and harm
- The risk management process
- Hazard identification methods
- Risk assessment techniques
- Risk acceptance principles and criteria
- Common safety methods
- Hazard log and hazard management
- Safety requirements
- Risk controls and mitigation
- Interfaces and shared hazards
- The railway safety case
- Safety arguments and evidence
- Authorisation and change
- Workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
