1 Jan 2025Start
31 Dec 2025End
Safety Culture Peer Review
UIC aims to promote international Safety Culture Peer Reviews by supporting members with annual planning, providing tailored materials, and fostering understanding of their value among railway companies.
Objectives
- Carried out by volunteer members, a Safety Culture Peer Review aims to strengthen the effectiveness of the safety culture and thus improve safety performance.
- Aims to identify the reality of safety practices, safety perceptions and safety behaviours, of all categories of actors and staff into the organisation
- A Peer Review exercise is conducted with a Host Company, a team of Reviewers & a Team Leader who meet all levels of the organisation to conduct interviews, focus groups and observations.
- The Reviewers and the Team Leaders are trained in the use of the ERA Safety Culture Model and in understanding the basics of Safety Culture and HOF.
Scope
- Peer Reviews are currently being developed in the rail sector
- The experience gained from an EU project (Twinning II), and ERA experimentations
- Total of 9 Peer Reviews in Europe by UIC and ERA
- 3 recent Peer Reviews performed in SNCF, LISEA, MESEA and Eurotunnel (UK)
- Peer Reviews to come: DB Cargo France
- Solid references: Safety Culture Peer Review Handbook & Peer Review Methodology (UIC & ERA)
Planned deliverables
- Training sessions (with ERA) for a pool of Reviewers (2 days) and Team Leaders (3 days), mastering the Safety Culture Model
- Regular update of the Safety Culture Peer Review Handbook
- Regular update of Peer Review Methodology (UIC & ERA)
- For each Peer Review: a detailed confidential report, summarising strengths & areas for improvement
Advantages for the railways
- Integrate the HOFs in Safety Management
- Improve the overall performance of the Safety System
- Foster the exchange of best practices from the field, between peers, in terms of safety culture
- The Host Company: obtains a full report on its organisation’s strengths and areas of improvement
