What's On 2026...

Here are a few ways that CAF Rail UK are participating in Rail Safety Week 2026:

• Daily Wellbeing workshops
• Engagement sessions at each location
• “Stop the job” empowerment campaign
• Welfare depot standards tour
• Wellbeing and Inclusion depot tour

Carlisle Support Services is the Headline Sponsor for #RSW26.

Steve Cere, Director of Rail Strategy said: “Rail Safety Week is about uniting the industry to protect our people, our passengers and our communities. As a proud sponsor, Carlisle is committed to supporting a culture of shared responsibility, continuous learning, and proactive prevention of accidents and fatalities.”

Ahead of Rail Safety Week, injury prevention charity Lifeskills will be showcasing rail safety education during a family open day event at their Safety Education Centre in Bristol.

Known for providing immersive and interactive experiences, Lifeskills helps children and families learn through realistic scenarios that encourage them to recognise risks, build confidence and develop safer behaviours in real-life situations.

As part of the event, children will be encouraged to take part in a Rail Safe Friendly Colouring Competition. The activities reinforce key rail safety messages, including staying away from tracks, understanding warning signs, avoiding distractions near railways and recognising the dangers of trespassing, helping to connect creative learning with real-world rail safety education.

Families attending will also experience Lifeskills’ realistic railway platform scenario, where they can explore common railway hazards and platform safety in a safe and engaging environment and meet the local Community Safety Manager from rail safety partner Network Rail.

We’re proud to support Rail Safety Week by bringing together rail safety initiatives, supporting early intervention and promoting wider conversations around rail safety.

To Support Rail Safety Week, Marshdale Construction Limited will be participating in multiple ways:

• Onsite safety walk around site visit
• Two safety toolbox talks per site
• Mental Health awareness Training
• Providing office treats and healthy options in the kitchen areas
• Promoting rail safety week across the business

The Community Safety Team at Network Rail will be hosting a number of education events throughout the Northwest route  during Rail Safety Week: 

• Community safety school visits to discuss the issues of trespass and safety at stations and level crossings.
• Evening scouts visit to talk to both the cubs and scouts on the importance of staying safe around the railway.
• Rail safety awareness event at Preston station.
• Hatters in the Community – Multi agency safety event. The programme will bring together young people from across Stockport for a series of workshops.
• Visit to cubs group in Macclesfield to discuss railway safety at stations and level crossings and distribute railway safety activity books.
• Network Rail will have a stall at a school careers fair to talk to the children about railway careers, specifically highlighting the importance of safety related roles.

Nexus: Relational and Restorative Practice Roadshows
During Rail Safety Week (15–21 June 2026), Nexus will deliver a programme of Relational and Restorative Practice roadshows across the network, running from 06:30 through to 00:00 to reach teams in their working environments.
Our focus is simple: making safety a conversation. We are exploring how psychological safety, listening, and everyday interactions shape whether people feel able to speak up.
At each session, we will ask one key question:
“What’s making the job harder or less safe than it needs to be?”
Colleagues can contribute through conversation, post-it feedback, or QR submissions.
We are also introducing a pocket card for all colleagues, promoting three everyday actions:
Reach – Notice and check in
Respond – Listen without blame
Lead – Make it safe to speak
This approach supports a consistent style of interaction focused on curiosity, openness, and learning.
Our aim is to better understand work as it is really done, and use those insights to make work safer and easier to get right.

Every year, Rail Safety Week reminds us why we do what we do. At Onwave, we built OWL geofencing because we believe technology should actively protect the people working on our railways. Warning people about hazardous areas including moving plant with centimetre-accurate positioning and clear alerts with context: these aren’t nice-to-haves, they’re essentials. We’re proud to sponsor Rail Safety Week 2026 and stand alongside an industry that takes protecting its workforce seriously.

As custodians of Rail Safety Week on behalf of the industry, we will once again deliver the official Rail Safety Week Conference, run the Children’s competitions, and capture ‘What’s On’ across the industry.

Watch this space for more details on our plans…!

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Ahead of RSW26, members of our team completed Emergency First Aid at Work training to equip themselves with practical, potentially life-saving skills that will serve them both at our events and beyond. The training is a reminder that safety awareness is something we can all invest in, whatever our role.

Railway Resilience: Supporting Yourself and Others is a half‑day, practical course designed for anyone working across the rail network. It builds personal resilience, strengthens confidence under pressure, and equips staff to support colleagues through challenging moments. Using real railway scenarios and reflective tools, participants leave with clearer wellbeing strategies. The course is endorsed by the Chartered Institution of Railway Operators (CIRO).

We are running open courses which start in September. For more information see https://paideiacoaching.co.uk/

Attached is a link to a digital leaflet https://paideiacoaching.co.uk/onewebmedia/PaideiaCoaching%20Trifold%20Sales%20-%20digital.pdf

REAX are backing Rail Safety Week by releasing a series of workplace safety and training videos on LinkedIn. We’re thrilled to have their support in helping drive the conversation around rail safety.

Innovating the CSM-RA Process
Rail Safety Week Lunch & Learn
18th June 2026 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Microsoft Teams

Join RSSB and RSK Business Solutions for a focused Lunch & Learn session exploring how digitalisation, industry collaboration, and the RSSB CHAMOIS project (Generic Hazard Lists) are helping improve hazard management and provide more consistency to the CSM-RA process across the rail industry.

The session will include a demonstration of RSK’s innovative Hazard Management Tool, designed to improve efficiency, reduce duplication, and enhance the traceability, consistency, and auditability of Hazard Records

Topics Covered
RSSB CHAMOIS project -Generic Hazard Lists
Challenges within current CSM-RA processes
Benefits of digital and standardised hazard Management
Improving traceability, visibility, and compliance

Who Should Attend?
Project Engineers & Managers
Safety & Assurance Professionals
CSM-RA Practitioners
Rail Project Delivery Teams

For further information or to register interest, please contact: Fran Ghazaani – fran.ghazaani@rsk-bsl.com

As every year, we are looking forward to fully supporting Rail Safety Week across all parts of our Siemens Mobility business. We recognise the power of the whole rail industry coming together to collaboratively bring about safety improvements for workers, passengers and the travelling public. This year we will again be widening the scope to also encompass health and wellbeing, and environmental sustainability (regonising that they are interlinked and mutually beneficial), with a range of briefings and events happening that are targeted at all areas of our workforce and their families.

We will be running some learning activities and briefings around human factors, behavioural safety and industry memory.