Project information
- Acronym: Peer Review
- Safety Culture Peer Review
- Sector: Safety Platform
- Project start date: 01/01/2025
- Project end date: 31/12/2025
- Duration: 1 year
- Project manager: Virginie Papillault
- Status: ongoing project
- More info: 3 to 4 peer reviews per year are possible
Objectives
- Carried out by volunteer members, a Safety Culture Peer Review aims to strengthen the effectiveness of the safety culture and thus improve safety performance.
- Aims to identify the reality of safety practices, safety perceptions and safety behaviours, of all categories of actors and staff into the organisation
- A Peer Review exercise is conducted with a Host Company, a team of Reviewers & a Team Leader who meet all levels of the organisation to conduct interviews, focus groups and observations.
- The Reviewers and the Team Leaders are trained in the use of the ERA Safety Culture Model and in understanding the basics of Safety Culture and HOF.
Scope
- Peer Reviews are currently being developed in the rail sector
- The experience gained from an EU project (Twinning II), and ERA experimentations
- Total of 9 Peer Reviews in Europe by UIC and ERA
- 3 recent Peer Reviews performed in SNCF, LISEA, MESEA and Eurotunnel (UK)
- Peer Reviews to come: DB Cargo France
- Solid references: Safety Culture Peer Review Handbook & Peer Review Methodology (UIC & ERA)
Planned deliverables
- Training sessions (with ERA) for a pool of Reviewers (2 days) and Team Leaders (3 days), mastering the Safety Culture Model
- Regular update of the Safety Culture Peer Review Handbook
- Regular update of Peer Review Methodology (UIC & ERA)
- For each Peer Review: a detailed confidential report, summarising strengths & areas for improvement
New ! Enhancing the outcomes of Peer Reviews, for members and the railway sector
*Peer Review results and recommendations to be analysed, to identify overall trends in safety culture that are useful to all, while keeping the field data confidential.
Advantages for the railways
- Integrate the HOFs in Safety Management
- Improve the overall performance of the Safety System
- Foster the exchange of best practices from the field, between peers, in terms of safety culture
- The Host Company: obtains a full report on its organisation’s strengths and areas of improvement
