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To further enhance your surfing experience, below are links to some other related websites, most with railway safety content. Before clicking, make sure you have a stiff drink to hand!

We've ranked their content for fluff, treacle, sloth and waste.

Fluff factor A measure of the promotion and self-justification perpetuated by the site
Treacle quota A measure of the thick, procedural gloop found on the site.
Sloth index A measure of the frequency that new material is added to the site.
Waste rating A measure of the nonsense and irrelevance transmitted by the site.

Rail Safety & Standards Board (RSSB)
RSSB spends large quantities of passengers' and taxpayers' cash on committees, seminars and research. RSSB is now a world leader in the manufacture of thick, bureaucratic blancmange, delivering untold value to the railway.

Fluff Sloth
Treacle Waste

Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
It is the HSE's job to protect people against risks to health and safety arising from work activities. It does this by creating a climate of fear whereby companies feel compelled to wrap every activity in valueless red tape.

Fluff Sloth
Treacle Waste

HSE Myth of the Month
In an attempt to rebuild its shattered reputation, the HSE's website now features a Myth of the Month, in which it takes a recently publicised story about health n safety excesses and tries to demolish it.

Fluff Sloth
Treacle Waste

Office of Rail Regulation (ORR)
The ORR's key role is to talk a good game. It provides little strategic vision and always plumps for the cheapest option - this involves saying 'no' to most proposals.

Fluff Sloth
Treacle Waste

Network Rail
Network Rail employs 32,000 people (around half of them in paper-shuffling roles), swallows billions of pounds of taxpayers' money (some of which finds its way into the pockets of overpaid executives) and still points the finger of blame for the industry's ills at the long-since-departed Railtrack.

Fluff Sloth
Treacle Waste

Rail Maritime & Transport Union (RMT)
The RMT represents around 80,000 members within the transport industry, campaigning for the Utopian delights of better pay, shorter working hours and safer working conditions.

Fluff Sloth
Treacle Waste

Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB)
The purpose of an RAIB investigation is to improve the safety of railways and prevent further accidents from occurring. It does this by taking over a year to arrive at its conclusions, many of which fail to engage with the practical realities of working in the real world.

Fluff Sloth
Treacle Waste

Confidential Incident Reporting & Analysis System (CIRAS)
CIRAS is an alternative way for rail industry staff to report safety concerns that they feel unable to report through company safety channels. Companies craft their responses to these reports in theoretical fudge and then largely ignore them.

Fluff Sloth
Treacle Waste

Safety Central
(Requires registration and log-in)
In accessing this site, you must understand that Network Rail is not liable for any loss or damage which may arise from the use of information contained on this site. In other words, NR is not confident that the content is either accurate or up-to-date.

Fluff Sloth
Treacle Waste

Railway Eye
The Fact Compiler brings together a wealth of railway stories - collated daily - and augments them with outrageous, unauthorised opinions. You are warned not to click on any safety-related 'tags' as this could expose you to dangerous common sense.

Fluff Sloth
Treacle Waste
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