There are several levels of safety assurance a licence holder must provide.
This is where you provide an overview of your organisation’s approach to safety and show how your governance and leadership groups work together to achieve your safety commitments.
It’s where your positive declarations are made so anyone reading the document are assured that your rail activities are as safe as they can be.
This is the safety system, documentation and processes your organisation uses to manage the safety of your rail activities. During a safety assessment, the evidence you provide to support statements and descriptions contained in your safety case is a big part of what is being checked. Showing how a safety system works or easily accessing a safety-critical procedure document provides assurance to the assessor that your safety case is accurate and you’re doing what you say you’re doing.
This is to do with the reliability of the safety information you gather. You need to provide assurance your processes, procedures and systems are fit for purpose. This is where the internal audit comes in. By having regular reviews and checks (audits), you provide assurance that if something is about to go wrong, you’ll find it and control it before it does.
