Rail Safety News - Issue 5 - May 2011 - Transport Safety Victoria

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Update on national rail safety regulator
On 7 December 2009, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG)
agreed to establish a national regulator for rail safety as part of COAG’s
reform agenda to ‘deliver a seamless national economy’.
Since then Australian regulators and representatives from each
jurisdiction’s transport departments have been working to assist COAG
to give effect to this decision. Transport Safety Victoria continues to
provide input to ensure rail safety outcomes in Victoria and nationally
are secured, including giving the Victorian regulatory perspective on:
• developing a national rail safety legislative framework,
• policy analysis on drug and alcohol and fatigue management issues,
and
• a national partnership agreement that will implement the new
regulator.
TSV continues to work closely and cooperatively with the Victorian
Department of Transport and other jurisdictions to progress this national
reform agenda going forward.
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