The Transafe Network

🚨 There's still time to register for our FREE online conference! https://lnkd.in/eSGEtNBW Join us on 19 November 2024 from 930am-3pm for the PACTS autumn conference, "Cultural Maturity in Transport Safety: Raising Our Game” 🚗 🚄 ✈️. We're looking forward to hearing from some fantastic speakers, including Luca Pascotto from FIA – Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, Tanya Fosdick and Dan Campsall from Agilysis Limited, Phoebe Smith from Health and Safety Executive, Jen Ablitt from Office of Rail and Road (ORR), Stephen Briers from Fleet News, Saul Jeavons from The Transafe Network, Mick Kiely from TES 2000 Ltd, George Henry from Transport Scotland, Caitlin Taylor from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) See the full line-up and agenda here: https://lnkd.in/eHR_s2vw This conference will help organisations: - Understand their road safety cultural maturity and its significance. - Learn why a consistent approach across all forms of transport and work environments is essential to support the take up and delivery of a safe system approach to road safety and better management of road risks. 🛑 Did you know? Within the area of transport safety, risk management maturity varies, with those working in air, rail and maritime working mainly at level 4 and 5 (Proactive and Generative). However, those working in the road sector seem to be mainly level 2 and 3 with a limited number at level 4 (Reactive, Systematic and Proactive). 🚧 Let’s come together to address these gaps and work to support the take up and delivery of a safe system approach to road safety and better management of road risks. 🔗 Register now - it's free to join! https://lnkd.in/eSGEtNBW #TransportSafety #RoadRiskManagement #SafetyCulture #PACTSConference #healthandsafety #RiskManagement #CulturalMaturity #RoadSafety

🚨 Register now - PACTS Autumn Conference 🚦 Join us on 19 November 2024 from 930am-3pm for our online conference, "Cultural Maturity in Transport Safety: Raising Our Game” 🚗 🚄 ✈️. Confirmed speakers so far include Dan Campsall and Tanya Fosdick from Agilysis Limited, Jen Ablitt from Office of Rail and Road (ORR), Phoebe Smith from Health and Safety Executive, Stephen Briers from Fleet News, Saul Jeavons from The Transafe Network and Caitlin Taylor from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). This conference will help organisations: - Understand their road safety cultural maturity and its significance. - Learn why a consistent approach across all forms of transport and work environments is essential to support the take up and delivery of a safe system approach to road safety and better management of road risks. 🛑 Did you know? Within the area of transport safety, risk management maturity varies, with those working in air, rail and maritime working mainly at level 4 and 5 (Proactive and Generative). However, those working in the road sector seem to be mainly level 2 and 3 with a limited number at level 4 (Reactive, Systematic and Proactive). 🚧 Let’s come together to address these gaps and work to support the take up and delivery of a safe system approach to road safety and better management of road risks. 🔗 Register now - it's free to join! https://lnkd.in/eSGEtNBW More info here: https://lnkd.in/eHR_s2vw #TransportSafety #RoadRiskManagement #SafetyCulture #PACTSConference #RiskManagement #CulturalMaturity #RoadSafety

Great photo from Matthew Avery showing that the idea of a Direct Vision Standard isn't as new as we might think!

Congratulations to my old TRL colleague Goff Jacobs on the award of an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours list. Goff was the author of many of the superb pieces of research carried out by TRL's International division over many decades in developing countries, and is also a thoroughly nice chap with a very gentle sense of humour.

It's always useful to review decisions around risk - in this case, nobody took account of the fact that cars are now wider, and so are parked closer together in spaces which didn't get any wider, plus had an increasing amount of plastic Vs metal making it easier for fire to spread. In work on hostile vehicle mitigation, we'd often find that nobody had recorded a particular tree or other physical feature as part of what was protecting a location, in a way which meant that any changes would be flagged up as needing alternative mitigation. It's the same with road safety. Whether it's a strategy document, a policy or a procedure, it should always have periodic review, ideally with some input from someone with a fresh pair of eyes and not just the document authors, because it can be difficult to spot issues in documents or systems to which we are too close (which is why proofreading is important!). https://lnkd.in/eMjXadBx

It's not every day that Leicester reminds you of Abu Dhabi... But yesterday that's what happened. I was at the National Space Centre presenting at an excellent day put on by National Highways and the Driving for Better Business team, which was both informative and challenged traditional thinking (I even got to have a bit of a to-and-fro discussion with Matthew Syed, although in the end it turned out we actually agreed with each other, so I avoided being challenged to a game of table tennis in the car park to settle the matter). The conversations reminded me of Professor Rhona Flin's excellent paper to the Society of Petroleum Engineers conference I presented at in Abu Dhabi back in 2006 "Managerial Resilience and Safety: Vasa to Nasa" which forms a chapter of the book "Resilience Engineering - Concepts and Precepts". The essence of managerial resilience is the ability to manage severe pressures and conflicts between safety and the primary performance goals of the organization. Managerial resilience requires risk assessment, decision making and assertiveness skills - operational and safety goals can often be seen as competing, requiring the manager to make ‘trade-off’ decisions - "get the job done safely" all too easily becomes "get the job done" when there is a conflict between the two. Professor Flin examined notable organisational failures - the sinking of the Swedish warship Vasa 1624; the space shuttles Challenger 1986 and Columbia 2003, and the oil platform Piper Alpha, 1988. In all cases, the erosion of managerial resilience appears to have played a key role. It really is worth a read, and if you haven't come across it before I commend it to you, and it might be worth giving a copy to your board. Yesterday was a reminder that there is so much we already know we should and could be doing, but so much we still have to learn from each other on doing things better. Although all too often, we aren't getting the proven basics right - as someone rightly said to me over lunch, ironically given the venue: "I mean, it's not rocket science is it..." So Leicester - as thought-provoking as Abu Dhabi, but without quite such good weather. Mark Cartwright Meera Naran MBE Mel Clarke Matt Staton Kevin Elliott Glen Davies Nick Pahl Clare Anderson Tom Geraghty Rupert Lown Anne-Marie Penny DipASM MARRM Simon Turner MARRM MAFP

Collett & Sons Transport's Scheuerle Gen 4 bladelifter in action on Pines Burn Windfarm transports. The photos are available on https://www.geograph.org , an excellent website for finding geotagged photos for desktop studies of sites in the UK & Ireland (as well as Germany and Channel Islands) the site does rely on dedicated users uploading and tagging photos but, can be really useful for showing features not visable on aerial imaging when undertaking desktop surveys. Credit and thanks to Walter Baxter for the photos https://lnkd.in/ewKhBsfE © Copyright Walter Baxter and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence https://lnkd.in/ebPPhqBY #expertsinmotion #collettandsons #bladelifter #scheuerle #windturbinetransport #bladeadapter #nordex