European Rail Safety Days 2025 Agenda

The workshop explores how companies can effectively integrate HOF (Human and Organisational Factors) into their performance evaluation and continuous improvement processes. It includes a real-world example from DB InfraGO, along with feedback and insights from their first year of experience.

A key mechanism to understand workplace reality is receiving, understanding and acting on reports from frontline staff, and a Reporting Culture is one of the five elements of safety culture described by the late, great James Reason. A reporting culture involves creating an atmosphere where people have the ability confidence to report hazards and safety concerns without fear of getting in any trouble, and in the belief that their reports will be acted upon. 

The workshop focuses on the challenges of creating a strong reporting culture. We discuss what constitutes a hazard or safety concern and explore how different types of safety concerns might struggle to be addressed through a one-size-fits-all reporting system. The workshop aims to identify the key building blocks of a successful reporting system from staff to management.  

The workshop explores how leaders and safety professionals contribute to safety culture. It aims to give participants concrete tools to utilise to develop a culture for safety in their organisations.

This interactive workshop focuses on how bottom-up analysis of air traffic incident data can reveal hidden systemic risks. The MAHCO process used in Austria is introduced, giving emphasis on how it supports trust-building, removes blame, and has helped strengthen collaboration with the Ministry of Justice.

The workshop provides an overview of the taxonomy and various types of safety information to be shared within the railways. It is supported by some examples of the use of the future Information Sharing System (ISS).

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The workshop covers the importance of competence and the links to Roles and Responsibilities, Risk and HOF - followed by a discussion on considerations for a future CSM on competence.

The hands-on workshop shows you how to predict frontline adaptations by understanding normal work and learn simple, powerful questioning techniques to uncover hidden constraints and turn routine conversations into actionable insights. 

In the Hindu myth, the pigeon sees the cat and the pigeon closes its eyes thinking that the cat has disappeared. 

So much of risk management is a search for non-compliance, hazards, and errors. But what if what you see as an error is considered normal in my worldview. In this interactive session, Dr Nippin Anand will encourage us to consider our perception i.e. the filter (or the ‘lens’) through which we see the world. Not only that, but also how what we have accepted and normalised, continues to shape our future experiences. Our worldview shapes how we see the world.

Note: This workshop will be complemented with a semiotic walk to the old town of Krakow on the third day of the conference.

The workshop explores user-centred processes, taking specific examples from the freight yard. Recent work has highlighted the importance of understanding the complexity of the freight yard, so that we can design efficient and safe processes, and maximise the introduction of new technology. 

The workshop will take an interactive approach through analysis of the physical, cognitive and organisational challenges of the freight yard, and develop knowledge of user-centred processes for design and deployment. The workshop is aimed at those wishing to understand more about how to analyse complex environments, how to tackle user-centred design, and particularly those who want to increase their understanding of freight – a fascinating, and critical, area for rail operations.

This workshop gives insight on how workplace factors are involved in accidents and incidents and, through practical exercises, develops participants’ ability to identify these factors in the context of an accident investigation.

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This interactive session will spotlight the winners of the Women in Rail Awards, offering a platform to present their projects and reflect on their long-term impact. Structured in two blocks, the workshop begins with short presentations followed by audience Q&A. The second half opens the floor to deeper discussion on key equity topics, inviting reactions from winners, jury members, and participants.

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