RSSB is an independent, not-for-profit company owned by major rail industry stakeholders as members.   RSSB builds industry-wide consensus, facilitates the resolution of difficult cross-industry issues, provides knowledge, analysis, technical expertise and risk management tools to bring about continuous improvement in safety, drive out unnecessary cost and improve business performance for rail.

The RSSB Business Plan 2009-14 contains the following section on Road-Rail risk:               

 

Support to the national Road Rail Interface Safety Group and local Road Rail Partnership Groups.

Development of route and company specific road rail risk profiles and improved planning mechanisms to efficiently coordinate improvement actions.

 

The role of the Road-Rail Interface Safety group (R-RIS) is to steer the work of the rail industry in increasing awareness of the hazards and risk at level crossings, bridge strikes and other incursions by motor vehicles onto the railway, arising from inappropriate behaviour. This includes examining public policy and making recommendations to simplify and consolidate regulatory matters covering safety at level crossings, including road traffic and highway matters, planning guidelines for development and the effective prosecution of offenders in the interest of public safety.

 

The R-RIS will adopt the approach of the "5 Es", that is: