ATRS provides a comprehensive service in the area of transport safety environmental management and security, ranging from accreditation and regulatory matters through to designing safety and environmental management systems and providing training to your personnel.  In addition, ATRS is able to provide a wide range of complementary transport management services whether it be business planning, operational design, commercial negotiation or a host of other transport business services.

 

Below are listed many examples of services that ATRS is able to offer.  If your need is not covered in this list, please don’t hesitate to ask — if ATRS can’t provide the expertise directly, we will almost certainly know a leader in that particular field whom we can recommend.

Services and Competencies

RISK MANAGEMENT

▪ Provision of strategic risk management advice;

▪ Application of Risk Management Standard AS 4360;

▪ Development of risk management policy, standards & procedures;

▪ Facilitation of risk assessment workshops;

▪ Preparation of risk mitigation action plans (RMAP's);

▪ Advice on organisational hazard registers;

▪ Review of risk management processes.

▪ Advice on the health assessment of rail safety workers;

▪ Conduct of human factors risk assessment.

RAIL SAFETY ACCREDITATION

▪ Assessment of rail safety management systems;

▪ Development of rail safety accreditation applications;

▪ Development of accreditation variance or change applications;

▪ Development of Annual Rail Safety Reports;

▪ Management of rail regulator annual compliance audits.

 

RAIL INDUSTRY TECHNICAL STANDARDS

▪ Advice on Rail Industry Safety & Standards Board (RISSB) Standards, Codes of Practice, and Guidelines;

▪ Advice on Australian Standards applicable to the rail industry such as AS 4292 (Rail Safety Management);

▪ Provision of independent advice on rail industry rolling stock engineering;

▪ Provision of independent advice on rail track engineering;

▪ Preparation of technical engineering reports.

COMPLIANCE AUDITING

▪ Rail Safety;

▪ Occupational Health & Safety;

▪ Environmental;

▪ Quality;

▪ Preparation of compliance audit plans;

▪ Preparation of compliance audit reports.

SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

▪ Advice and development of safety management systems;

▪ Review and feedback on adequacy of existing SMS;

▪ Amendment of existing SMS;

▪ Development of safety management plans.

SAFETY LEGISLATIVE REQUIREMENTS

▪ Advice on requirements of State and Northern Territory Rail Safety Acts;

▪ Advice on National Model Rail Safety Bill;

▪ Strategy advice on potential National Rail Safety Bill;

▪ Strategy advice on potential National OH&S Bill;

▪ Strategic advice on potential National Rail Investigator.

ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

▪ Provision of independent accident investigators;

▪ Review of accident investigation reports;

▪ Preparation of risk mitigation actions plans in response to a major accident;

▪ Provision of expert technical witnesses.

TRAINING

▪ Advice on rail safety worker legislative training requirements;

▪ Conduct of training needs analysis;

▪ Development of training plans;

▪ Development of competency based training packages;

▪ Conduct of training assessments;

▪ Conduct of risk management training;

▪ Conduct of accident investigator training;

▪ Conduct of alcohol tester training.

COUNTER TERRORISM SECURITY

▪ Provision of strategic counter terrorism security advice;

▪ Conduct of counter terrorism threat analysis;

▪ Planning and conduct of security simulated exercises;

▪ Preparation of security management plans.

ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE

▪ Strategic advice on compliance to environmental legislative requirements;

▪ Development of environmental management systems;

▪ Development of environmental management plans;

▪ Advice and development of remediation plans following an environmental incident.

HUMAN FACTORS

▪ Advice on rail industry fatigue management;

▪ Advice on rail safety worker drug and alcohol policies, procedures and management;

▪ Advice on the health assessment of rail safety workers;

▪ Conduct of human factors risk assessment.