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The safety management system shall contain the following basic elements: 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, national rules referred to in Article 8 and Annex II, other relevant rules or authority decisions; procedures to assure compliance with the standards and other prescriptive conditions throughout the life cycle of equipment and operations; procedures and methods for identifying risks, carrying out risk evaluation and implementing risk-control measures whenever a change of operating conditions or the introduction of new material imposes new risks on the infrastructure or the man-machine-organisation interface; the provision of programmes for the training of staff and systems to ensure that the staff's competence is maintained and that tasks are carried out accordingly, including arrangements with regard to physical and psychological fitness; arrangements for the provision of sufficient information within the organisation and, where appropriate, between organisations of the railway system; procedures and formats for the documentation of safety information and designation of procedure for the 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; the provision of actions plans, alerts and information in the event of an emergency, agreed upon with the appropriate public authorities; and provisions for recurrent internal auditing of the safety management system. Infrastructure managers and railway undertakings shall include any other element necessary to cover safety risks, in accordance with the assessment of risks arising from their own activity.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-28 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.