The Channel Tunnel (Safety) Order 2007

Annex 1SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Requirements on the safety management system

1.  The safety management system must be documented in all relevant parts and shall in particular describe the distribution of responsibilities within the organisation of the infrastructure manager or the railway undertaking. It shall show how control by the management on different levels is secured, how staff and their representatives on all levels are involved and how continuous improvement of the safety management system is ensured.

Basic elements of the safety management system

2.  The basic elements of the safety management system are:

(a)a safety policy approved by the organisation’s chief executive and communicated to all staff;

(b)qualitative and quantitative targets of the organisation for the maintenance and enhancement of safety, and plans and procedures for reaching these targets;

(c)procedures to meet existing, new and altered technical and operational standards or other prescriptive conditions as laid down:

• in TSIs,

• or

• in the unified safety rules referred to in Article 1 xxvi,

• or

• in other relevant rules,

• or

• in authority decisions;

or where necessary to achieve common safety targets or adherence to common safety methods, when these are adopted; and procedures to assure compliance with the standards and other prescriptive conditions throughout the life-cycle of equipment and operations;

(d)procedures and methods for carrying out risk evaluation and implementing risk control measures whenever a change of the operating conditions or new material imposes new risks on the infrastructure or on operations;

(e)provision of programmes for training of staff and systems to ensure that the staff’s competence is maintained and tasks carried out accordingly;

(f)arrangements for the provision of sufficient information within the organisation and, where appropriate, between organisations operating on the same infrastructure;

(g)procedures and formats for how safety information is to be documented and designation of procedure for configuration control of vital safety information;

(h)procedures to ensure that accidents, incidents, near misses and other dangerous occurrences are reported, investigated and analysed and that necessary preventive measures are taken;

(i)provision of plans for action and alerts and information in case of emergency, agreed upon with the appropriate public authorities; and

(j)provisions for recurrent internal auditing of the safety management system.