Transparency update - February 2014

Wednesday 26 Feb 2014

Transparency update - February 2014

Region & Route:: National

Network Rail has today published new and updated information on its online transparency portal: www.networkrail.co.uk/transparency

The new categories are:

Close calls – the company encourages staff to report accidents that almost happened to better help understand risk and the factors that can lead to accidents, in order to prevent them in future.
Records management policy
Top 10 incidents of delay attributed to Network Rail. This information will be released on a periodic (every four weeks) basis and links to our delays explained pages, published in December.
2013 settlement agreements
Station change threshold figures*

We will also be refreshing the following information:

Group expenses
Gifts and hospitality
Payment performance
Sourcing cycle times
Board minutes
Non-executive expenses
Executive expenses
Members’ expenses
Progress of projects
Cable theft

Mark Farrow, head of transparency for Network Rail said: "We're continuing to publish more data as part of our commitment to being more open and transparent about what we do and the way we do it. The close call information is crucial to helping us improve workforce safety. By publishing this, I hope it reinforces how seriously we take the issue and encourages everyone at Network Rail and all our contractors to report a close call, so we can learn from them and do everything we can to stop accidents before they happen."

Notes to editors

The delays explained web pages can be found at: http://www.networkrail.co.uk/timetables-and-travel/delays-explained/

* Station change threshold figures relates to rules that govern the relationship between all contracting parties at a station and the process for agreeing physical changes to a station

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