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 ISO AUS-NZ 31,000

 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

CRISIS MANAGEMENT

 Crisis management planning

 Exercise management, planning & assessment

 Facilitated incident & emergency debrief management

 Emergency response planning & training

FIRE SAFETY

 Conduct of fire safety property inspections

 Fire safety compliance auditing

 Development of emergency evacuation plans

 Presentation of fire safety awareness training