RAIL SAFETY NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 50
Principles of shared responsibility, accountability, integrated risk management, etc
RAIL SAFETY NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 50
Principles of shared responsibility, accountability, integrated risk management, etc
50 Principles of shared responsibility, accountability, integrated risk
management, etc
(1) Rail safety is the shared responsibility of--
(a) rail transport
operators; and
(b) rail safety workers; and
(c) other persons who--
(i)
design, commission, construct, manufacture, supply, install, erect, maintain,
repair, modify or decommission rail infrastructure or rolling stock; or
(ii)
supply rail infrastructure operations or rolling stock operations to rail
operators; or
(iii) in relation to the transport of freight by railway--load
or unload freight on or from rolling stock; and
(d) the Regulator; and
(e)
ONRSR; and
(f) the public.
(2) The level and nature of responsibility that a
person referred to in subsection (1), or falling within a class of person
referred to in that subsection, has for rail safety is dependent on the nature
of the risk to rail safety that the person creates from the carrying out of an
activity (or the making of a decision) and the capacity that person has to
control, eliminate or mitigate those risks.
(3) The persons and classes of
persons referred to in subsection (1) should--
(a) participate in or be able
to participate in; and
(b) be consulted on; and
(c) be involved in the
formulation and implementation of,
measures to manage risks to safety
associated with railway operations.
(4) Managing risks associated with the
carrying out of rail infrastructure operations or rolling stock operations is
the responsibility of the person best able to control those risks.
(5) If
approaches to managing risks associated with any particular railway have
potential impacts on any other railway or a railway network of which the
railway is a part, the best practicable rail safety outcome should be sought.