Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (repealed)Show full title

2. Basic elements of the safety management system

The basic elements of the safety management system are:

(a)

a safety policy approved by the organisation's chief executive and communicated to all staff;

(b)

qualitative and quantitative targets of the organisation for the maintenance and enhancement of safety, and plans and procedures for reaching these targets;

(c)

procedures to meet existing, new and altered technical and operational standards or other prescriptive conditions as laid down

• in TSIs, or

• in national safety rules referred to in Article 8 and Annex II, or

• in other relevant rules, or

• in authority decisions,

and procedures to assure compliance with the standards and other prescriptive conditions throughout the life-cycle of equipment and operations;

(d)

procedures and methods for carrying out risk evaluation and implementing risk control measures whenever a change of the operating conditions or new material imposes new risks on the infrastructure or on operations;

(e)

provision of programmes for training of staff and systems to ensure that the staffs competence is maintained and tasks carried out accordingly;

(f)

arrangements for the provision of sufficient information within the organisation and, where appropriate, between organisations operating on the same infrastructure;

(g)

procedures and formats for how safety information is to be documented and designation of procedure for configuration control of vital safety information;

(h)

procedures to ensure that accidents, incidents, near misses and other dangerous occurrences are reported, investigated and analysed and that necessary preventive measures are taken;

(i)

provision of plans for action and alerts and information in case of emergency, agreed upon with the appropriate public authorities;

(j)

provisions for recurrent internal auditing of the safety management system.