On 28 April CIRAS (Confidential Incident Reporting and Analysis System) is doing a seminar in Edinburgh.
CIRAS began 20 years ago with Scotrail as a way to capture the safety concerns that staff felt were not being dealt with through official channels or where they could not raise the issue with their line managers.
With Ladbroke Grove the rail industry made CIRAS a a requirement for all those operating on the railway. It is now beginning to arrive for commercial activity on the UK's roads. TfL has made it a requirement for their bus contacts (took around 2 years to get this accepted), and RMT (a significant Union for Bus Drivers) is backing the roll-out (Unite currently remains aloof).
Edinburgh Tram is signed up although not all other tram operators are. Ironically for the big bus companies, because they are already signed up for rail adding buses costs them nothing.
Here's the detail
http://www.ciras.org.uk/events/2016/ciras-safety-conference-2016/
And the current newsletter
http://view.pagetiger.com/CIRAS/ See p14
For truck drivers there is a further survey - for FORS - a freight operator accreditation system, initially for London, but now offered UK-wide. It looks at how effective the means of seeing from the driving seat - especially direct vision are experienced by the drivers
https://ovearup.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/hgv-driver-survey
As they day in Derry/Londonderry Vote Early Vote Often.
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