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Basic elements of the safety management system The basic elements of the safety management system are: a safety policy approved by the organisation's chief executive and communicated to all staff; qualitative and quantitative targets of the organisation for the maintenance and enhancement of safety, and plans and procedures for reaching these targets; 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; 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; provision of programmes for training of staff and systems to ensure that the staffs competence is maintained and tasks carried out accordingly; arrangements for the provision of sufficient information within the organisation and, where appropriate, between organisations operating on the same infrastructure; procedures and formats for how safety information is to be documented and designation of procedure for configuration control of vital safety information; procedures to ensure that accidents, incidents, near misses and other dangerous occurrences are reported, investigated and analysed and that necessary preventive measures are taken; provision of plans for action and alerts and information in case of emergency, agreed upon with the appropriate public authorities; provisions for recurrent internal auditing of the safety management system.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-29 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.