We’ll check you’ve followed and applied good risk and change management processes.
Connecting with us as early as possible about change helps everyone involved, so talk with your licence manager.
Addressing risks at the design stage rather than at implementation leads to effective risk management.
We can work with you to make sure you’re managing the change and assessing the risks well and make your application for a safety case variation or renewal a much smoother and faster process.
It’s important you show you’re managing the change and its effect on your organisation’s risks well. That’s why the extra documents are required.
Some things that may help manage your change process:
We charge for the time spent on your safety case variation, so the more of these that you include in your change management process, the easier it will be to assess your application.
Sometimes rail activities are changed in stages, such as testing new rail vehicles before you start running regular operations. In these cases we encourage you to split the variations into phases.
By requesting an initial safety case variation to test a new rail vehicle in a controlled environment, you can do your risk assessment and management processes without having to do the whole change at once. This allows us to approve the variation and you can begin the testing.
When the testing is complete you can then do your risk assessment and change management processes for bringing the rail vehicles into service, and submit another application for a safety case variation that covers this part.
