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National Railway Safety Regulator Act, 2002 (Act No. 16 of 2002)

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Regulations on Notifiable Railway Occurrences, 2022

Part D: Additional Railway Occurrence Information to be submitted

14. Quarterly Reports

 

(1) Quarterly  reports  must be submitted  not later than the end of the  month following the quarter under review. The quarters must consist of the following cycle:
(a) April to June;
(b) July to September;
(c) October to December; and
(d) January to March.

 

(2) In addition to the railway occurrence recording, notification and reporting required in regulations 10, 11 and 12, operators must submit quarterly reports on operational railway occurrences and security-related incidents to the Railway Safety Regulator. The quarterly reports must comprise a summary of the following:
(a) The railway occurrences in accordance with the sub-categories listed in categories A to O as described in regulation 5 and Appendix A (Table 1);
(b) security-related railway occurrences in accordance with the sub-categories listed in the categories 1 to 11 as described in regulation 6 and Appendix A (Table 2);
(c) the precursors and leading indicators as described in regulation 7 and Appendix A (Table 3); and
(d) fatalities and injuries as described in regulation 8 and Appendix A (Table 4).

 

(3) Quarterly reports must also provide the following management information:
(a) Explanations of significant changes in trends in each category and sub-category;
(b) recommendations that are proposed and accepted to address the trends in paragraph (a);
(c) actions taken to address any adverse trends;
(d) actions that lead to favourable results and lessons learned; and
(e) traffic information, in order to normalize occurrence trends.