This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to identify and meet rail safety regulatory requirements.

It involves interpreting rail safety legislation for specific scope and nature of rail transport operator railway operations.

Rail safety regulatory compliance requirements can be defined by a range of rail safety operating principles such as:

• ensuring emergencies and incidents are properly managed
• ensuring interfaces between different organisations are properly defined and managed
• identifying and managing risk
• protecting persons from injury
• protecting property from damage
• track access
• train separation.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.