Our ref: HSR
Head Office Circular: NP/250/24
14th October 2024
To: The Secretary
ALL BRANCHES
REGIONAL COUNCILS
Dear Colleague
ORR – MANAGING RAIL STAFF FATIGUE
ORR have recently revised their guidance on Managing Rail Staff Fatigue, you can see this at:
https://www.orr.gov.uk/managing-rail-staff-fatigue. This new guidance supersedes previous ORR guidance on managing fatigue, published in 2012: https://www.orr.gov.uk/sites/default/files/om/managing_rail_fatigue.pdf).
Your NEC (National Executive Committee) met on 1st October 2024 to consider a report from its health and safety sub-committee from when they met to discuss this matter:
We note that ORR have re written their “Managing rail staff fatigue” guidance.
In connection with this we instruct the General Secretary to:
- Place the ORR guidance on the fatigue section of RMT web site
- Request that the Lead Officer discuss the new guidance with ORR Chief Inspector, Richard Hines
- Discuss the report with RMT NWR Lead reps at the NWR Joint Council meeting on 7/8/9th October
Additionally, when the above actions are complete, we instruct the General Secretary to write a briefing doc for rail reps to use when negotiating new rosters.
Branches and Regional Councils to be advised accordingly.
I am acting in line with these instructions. Please bring this circular to the attention of all relevant members.
Yours sincerely
Michael Lynch
General Secretary