The Rail Safety and Standards Board Podcast

From concept to conversion: How our freight research drives safety and growth

If you’ve spent any amount of time in the rail industry, you’ll know it’s passenger services that most often grab the headlines. Meanwhile, rail freight takes the role of

Upholding safety and satisfaction in a changing industry

In this episode, we're joined by Tom Lee, our Director of Standards at RSSB.  We discuss specific challenges in safety and satisfaction for customers, how we’re hel

Putting sustainability and social value ‘front and centre’

With us for this episode is Rachael Everard, our Director of Sustainable Development at RSSB.  We explore some of the sustainability challenges the industry is up agains

Ensuring reliable rail services: How RSSB makes a difference

In this episode, we're joined by Chris Knowles, RSSB's Director of System Safety and Health. We’ll explore some specific challenges to rail reliability and res

Investing today for tomorrow's success

In this episode, we're joined once again by Johnny Schute, RSSB's Chief Operating Officer. Together, we'll explore what rail needs to be thinking about in

Navigating technological change in the evolving rail industry

In this episode, we're joined once again by Vaibhav Puri, RSSB's Director of Sector Strategy and Transformation. Together, we'll explore some of the issue

'The future of freight is bright': Boosting safety and growth

In this episode, we're joined by Andrea Rossi. Andrea is the CEO of DB Cargo UK and a non-executive director on the RSSB Board. Together, we'll explore the cur

How industry is coming together on trespass and suicide prevention

In this episode, we're joined by Rich Godwin. Rich is the Chair of industry's Trespass and Suicide Prevention Working Group. He's also a Suicide Prevention

Revisiting the Sustainable Rail Blueprint: Milestones, member adoption, and more

Welcome to our first podcast of 2025! With us today is Stacey Head, our Sustainability Manager. She’ll be speaking with us about some of the initiatives the Sustainable R

Reflections and resolutions with RSSB Chair, Mike Brown

In this episode, we're delighted to be joined by Mike Brown, Chair of the RSSB Board.  He's with us for the final episode of 2024 to round up the year the rail

Road Safety Week special: Police tips on keeping your drivers safe

This is the third and final episode in our Rail Industry Road Safety Week miniseries. This episode, we're joined by Rik Wenham, an investigator in the Commercial Ve

Road Safety Week special: Supporting a line report through an RTC

This is the second episode in our Rail Industry Road Safety Week miniseries. This episode, we're joined by Jamie Mills, a Section Manager at Network Rail. He speaks

Road Safety Week special: How the ‘perfect storm’ led to this survivor’s RTC

This is the first episode in our 2024 Rail Industry Road Safety Week miniseries.  In this episode, we're joined by Dave Whelan, a train manager at GB Railfreight an

Unlocking value for industry in 2025 and beyond

This month, we're speaking with Helen Costello, RSSB's Director of Business Management and Performance.  She’ll be speaking with us about the biggest hurdles r

Why industry-wide collaboration will 'forever be valuable'

This month we're joined by Vaibhav Puri, RSSB's Director of Sector Strategy and Transformation, to speak about the value of industry-wide collaboration for the

Our place at the heart of the rail industry

We're joined this month by Johnny Schute, our Chief Operating Officer. Johnny speaks with us about RSSB's unique whole-system perspective and what that means fo

Health and safety data: quality information drives quality decisions

This month we're joined by Marcus Dacre, RSSB’s Head of Risk and Safety Intelligence. He talks with us about the importance of having good quality health and safet

Rail freight: meeting the 75% growth target safely

Welcome to another episode of the RSSB podcast! This month we're joined by Dougie Hill, who is Chair of the National Freight Safety Group. He talks about the freight

Getting health on par with safety

Welcome to another episode of the RSSB podcast! This month we're joined by Tracy Orlandi, who is Head of Wellbeing and Occupational Health at East Midlands Railway.

Sustainable Rail Blueprint: its impact so far and where we go from here

This month we're joined by Thom Rawson, RSSB's Sustainable Rail Principal, to talk through the impact the Sustainable Rail Blueprint has had so far. He also cov