The ATSB is Australia’s national transport safety investigator. Investigations seek to identify safety issues and encourage safety action to reduce the risk of future accidents and incidents.

• About

• Rail safety

  The Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003 (TSI Act) provides a legislative basis for the ATSB to conduct rail safety investigations.

• About rail investigations

  The aim is to concentrate ATSB’s resources on those investigations considered most likely to enhance rail safety.

• Investigations

• Rail safety investigations and reports

  Rail accidents and incidents investigation reports.

• Rail safety issues and actions

  Safety issues and actions including recommendations and safety advisory notices.

• Rail REPCON

  Read rail safety concerns submitted to the ATSB.

• Publications

• Rail publications

  Follow this link to view all rail related publications.

• Statistics

• Rail statistics

  Statistics from the Australian Rail Occurrence Database.

• Procedures

• Investigation procedures and deciding whether to investigate

  Follow this link for information on how the ATSB decides whether to investigate and the classification process. Includes information on how safety investigation reports are organised and terminology used.

• Railway accident guidelines for operators, police and emergency personnel

• Reporting

• Mandatory - Rail accident or incident notification

  Rail owners, operators, track access providers, and other 'responsible persons' are obliged, to report any accident.

• Voluntary - REPCON Rail Confidential Reporting Scheme

  REPCON is a voluntary and confidential reporting scheme. REPCON allows any person who has a rail safety concern to report it to the ATSB confidentially. Protection of the reporter’s identity and any individual referred to in the report is a primary element of the scheme.

Last update 07 February 2019