RAIB's response to accident and incident notification
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The Regulations place a duty on railway industry bodies (infrastructure managers, railway operators, or maintainers), involved in an accident or incident, to notify us.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Information security
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
The Regulations place a duty on railway industry bodies (infrastructure managers, railway operators, or maintainers), involved in an accident or incident, to notify us. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- RAIB's response to notifications
- Preliminary examination
- Powers of RAIB inspectors
- How RAIB selects accidents to investigate
- How we investigate
- The investigation report
- Sharing evidence
- The recommendation process
- Learning points
Source and licence
Rail Accident Investigation Branch
AttributionRail Accident Investigation Branch, ‘RAIB's response to accident and incident notification’ (updated 19 December 2014), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026