In an attempt to better convey safety critical information, Pure Rail will attempt to keep this page updated with the latest safety alerts from the various track operators across NSW. If you have anything to add to this page please let us know at admin@purerail.com.au
Any changes to the Rail Safety Act 82c they can be found on the website of the Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator website.
20240919 – HSE Alert – COMM-0000055
20240517 ARTC HSE Alert – COMM-0000045
20240411 ARTC HSE Alert – COMM-0000042 Removal of CERT as ARTC ATTP and FAQs
20240111 ARTC HSE Alert – COMM-0000024 Significant Safeworking Event Communication Irregularities 20240111 ARTC SWB Dry Creek V1
20240108 TfNSW Contractors Speak-Up Hotline
20231222 – ARTC HSE Alert – COMM-0000020 Temporary Removal of CERT as ARTC Approved RTO
20231215 – ARTC HSE Alert – COMM-0000017 – Temporary removal – Skilled Rail Services Pty Ltd
20231212 TfNSW SB067 holiday-season-safe-use-of-drugs-and-alcohol
20231011 ARTC eTAP October Update Briefing Document Protection Officers_
20230914 SE Bulletin B0022 – Red Imported Fire Ants
20230831 eTAP Refreshers Modules
20230803 Toolbox Talk – Rail Safety Week 2023 – ARTC
20230726 TfNSW Local Safety Communication Unsafe Acts when using LW v 1.1
20230728 Flash Alert F0045- Worker car accident – Bylong
20230718 ARTC Flash Alert F0044 – Securing Manually Operated Catch Points
Repeat Offender Cops Fatigue Conviction | ONRSR
20230627 SW Alert Jun 23 HV ARTC Rail Grinding Resurfacing
20230623 Safety Advisory – SA04-022 – Locomotive sandbox fixing arrangements
20230606 Lesson Learned L0012 – Near Miss Train to Vehicle
20230526 – UGLRLX CRN Safe Notice – 0004-23 ICE Radio Communications to Emergency Services 000
20230524 – RACN 23-008 – operation of 21tal wagons at 60kmh on Central and North West Routes
20230501 Safety Flash RTS 1.05.23
20230406 – ARTC Manual Block Working V1
20230405 – SE Bulletin B0019 – Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Procedure
20230214 – Flash Alert F0039 – Uncontrolled movement of SSP Regulator
20230210 – Flash Alert F0038 – Hirail Excavator roll over
20230125 – memo for contractors and suppliers – COVID – Jan 2023.pdf
20221221 ARTC SE Bulletin B0016 – NSW Network Rules and Procedures
20221216 ARTC S&E Bulletin B0015 – Demarcation Fencing Procedure
20221130 ARTC COR-FM-056 SAFETY ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN – Wilpinjong Near Miss_
20221129 ARTC Flash Alert F0031 – Near Miss Train to Vehicle
20221118 ARTC SAFE Notice 2-5253
20221118 ARTC SAFE Notice 2-5254
20221117 – SA 0002-22 Severe weather events on the CRN
20221111 ARTC Flash Alert F0029 – Moonee Ponds Safe Working Incident – Train to Trackworker
20221111 ARTC eTAP App Update and Enhancements for Protection Officers – Phase 1
20221025 ARTC Memo – PPE Explainer 2022
20220926 ARTC Flash Alert F0024 – Trailer Detachment N2NS – Inland Rail
20220914 TFNSW – E&M local safety communications
20220909 ARTC Flash Alert F0023 – Trailer Rollover
20220831 ARTC Safety Bulletin – ARTC Adjacent Line Requirements
20220816 ARTC Safety Alert – Picton TWA Train to RRV Near Miss
20220621 – ARTC Safety Bulletin – Changes to Piggybacking process NSW
!!! Reporting Positive Rapid Antigen Tests !!!
20211210 artc Flash Alert F0005 – Failure of Railway Track Signals
20211129 – ARTC COVID-19 Vaccinations as a condition of entry
20210920 JMDR Safety Bulletin – New USABT 415V Power Feed
20210914 safety bulletin – JMDR SB LIVE Power V1.4 210914
20210824 ARTC Flash Alert No134 -Motor Vehicle Collision
20210721 Safe Notice 0034-21 Bumberry – Removal of B frame and Goods Siding
20270707 ARTC External Safety Alert – Review of long end leading operations – 25 June 2021
20210611 ARTC SA Re-Issue-ARTC-Safety-Alert-No105-Mobile-Plant-Isolation-1
20210611 ARTC SA Re-Issue-ARTC-Safety-Alert-No-123-Worker-Struck-by-Excavator
20210603 JMDR Drug and Alcohol Management Procedure – UPDATED
20210506 TFNSW – Amendment information V15.0.05052021
20210401 HSE Alert 006-2021- Parkes Yard Finger Injury _with ICAM Actions_
20210222 ARTC Safety Alert No 128 Walkways
incident-alerts 2020 – two-workers-injured-by-tractor-slasher
20201117 TFNSW SN Amendment information V13.0.17112020
20201029 JHG CRN sn-0050-2020-changes-to-network-rules-procedures-and-forms
20201029 TSN-2020-354-Central-Illawarra-Jct-METRO-A
20201029 TSN-2020-351-Fairfield-Sefton-Pk-Jct-Macarthur
20201029 TSN-2020-348-Blacktown-St-Marys-NIF
20201023 ARTC Safety Alert No 127 Forklift Pallet Racking
20201014 ARTC Safety Alerty – Part A Vehicle Entering the Rail Corridor
20200831 ARTC Safety Alert No 126 Loose Wheel Nuts ARTC Vehicles
20200810 ARTC Safety Alert No 124 Line of Fire – Lifting Operations
20200717 TFNSW SN – NS-1450-Protection-Officer-Performance-Standard-V4.1
20200713 ARTC SN – Lessons Learnt (Part C) P2 Masks
20200713 – ARTC message re covid-19-melbourne-hotspots
20200703 Working with John Holland Memo July 2020
20200630 eTAP app Version Update Protection Officer Briefing Document June 2020
20200505 TFNSW Corridor Safety System Script Changes – Communication
20200417 – TFNSW Weekly Notice Update
20200417 TSN-2020-261-Exception-to-NWT-302-Markers
20200408 TFNSW SNT-2020-1024-Absolute-Signal-Blocking-Updated-Requirements
20200408 TFNSW – Weekly Notice 17 WN-2020-17
20200408 Essential Energy Approved Alcohol and Other Drugs Procedure – EFFECTIVE DATE 4th May
20200408 TFNSW – Amendment information V3.0.06042020
20200407 Pacific National – Pre Start Health Check Requirement
20200407 TFNSW – Safety Alert Covid19 Pre Work Briefing precautions – Final
20200406 TFNSW Weekly Notice – WK-2020-16
20200401 – TFNSW NLA 310-Hornsby-Gosford-V18.0 update
20200331TFNSW_ Sydney Trains Access Pre-Advice System (APS) Go Live
20200327 – JH-SUB-COVID-19 – Planning and Response
20200326 ARTC Safety Alert No 122 Pre-Work Brief
20200319 ARTC Change to April Major PO Briefings
20200311 – ARTC Safety Alert No 121 Toyota Landcruiser Wheel Inspections
20200228 etap training locations
20200227 ARTC Safe Notice – Chullora Junction Upgrades
20200220 ARTC UPDATED Safety Alert – Vehicle Roll Over
20200219 TFNSW Safety Alert – spot checks on riw cards
20200206 Closedown Hot Work Controls – Memorandum_ARTC February 2020 Closedown_Final
20200203 ARTC Safety Alert – Coronavirus
20200203 ARTC – Changes to PO Briefings
20200131 Safety Alert – CBM re Coronavirus
20200130 ARTC Safety Alert – Amendments to ARTC NSW Network rules and Procedures
20200124 Downer Zero Harm Alert – Fall from height
20200121 ARTC Safety Alert No 116 Rail Trolleys
20191022 ARTC Safe Notice – NSW Network Rules and Procedures Amendments – Training requirements
20190909 – ARTC Safety Alety No 114 – Robel Clamp
20190905 TFNSW – upcoming changes to Possessions
20190723 TFNSW RIW-MTA Transition
20190723 ARTC Safety Alert No 113 TOA over CSB
20190712 ARTC Safety Alert No 112 External Double Fatality on Network Rail (UK)
20190628 TfNSW_Safety Alert_RIW Transition – Pegasus Cards
20190517 ARTC_Lessons Learnt – Fundamentally Stable Vehicles
20190513 Sydney Trains Precautions When Working Around ATP
20190513 TFNSW_ ASB Safety Video – Railsafe
20190502 Pegasus log in and out – John Holland NIF project
20190502 – TFNSW Safety Alert – RailSafe and Network Rules Updates
20190418 _ SNT 2019 – 1018 Recall of Railway Track Signals
20190405 Downer Bulletin – Zero Harm – Live Strand Wire
20190405 Downer Bulletin – Zero Harm – Uncontrolled Vehicle Movement
20190403 ARTC Memorandum – REMINDER RE Dress code for attendance at PO Briefings – Final
20190322 Key Lessons – Learnings from Recent Incidents – Feb – march Closedown
20190320 TFNSW – CSS Script Change 19 March 2019
20190313 TFNSW – Safety Alert – Rail Safety Incidents during an LPA
20190305 Safety Alert – Onsite Documents
20190214 – ARTC Safety Alert No111 – Look Out Working Network Information Books (NIB)
20181204 ARTC – Revised On Rail Operation WMS
20181123 – TFNSW House Keeping & Security inside the Rail Corridor
20181015 Sydney Trains TFNSW – approved worksite delineation markers within an LPA
20181008 Incident reporting – Laing O’Rourke Toolbox Talk
20181008 ARTC Safety Alert No110 – Work Trains travelling into a Fixed Worksite
20181008 TFNSW – resolves for safe working incidents (pages 13 and 19)
20180927 Notification of NR changes – TfNSW – Infrastructure Services
Lessons Learnt – Signal Safe Place
Call for an end to Worksite Protection Incidents
Fatal & Severe Risk Program_Summary Poster
Memo – ARTC Hunter Valley Contractors Working in the Rail Corridor
20180829 TFNSW Safety Alert – ACS
20180727 Non-TfNSW site requirements
20180727 RRV reporting requirements
20180709 – Hazard Alert Ballast Dust
20180525 – Clip and Lock Points -Lessons-Learnt
20180421 – SA 18-295 Using Lookout Working
20180430 – SA 03-18 CNWT304 Track Occupancy Authority v1.0
20171214 – Report of incidents on Country Regional Network
20171214 – Correct use of Supplementary Codes
20171212 – Absolute Signal Block Safety Alert 7 2017
20171109 – Safety Alert 17-291 plus attachments
20170510 – Synthetic-fibre-sling-fails
20170428 – Pure Rail Safety Alert
20170222 – Narrabri Laceration to finger
20170222 – Road accident on gravel
20170222 – Fire at Rosemount Road
20170212 – Kink in Bridge Pier – Moree
20170216 – Truck struck level crossing standard – Camurra
20170215 – Gate collapse – Waratah
20170215 – Sharp plastic placed in screw slots
20170127 – Rail Worker Near Hit Redfern
20161206 – GrainCorp Loader on track Bellata TCR13575
20161209 – IIA power point burnt out
20161130 – Internal Incident Alert – Train strike cross level board
20161110 – Faulty cruise control
20161031 – IIA – Hydrema Collision
20161031 – Injury from hand held rail profiler
20161027 – Contractor Safety Alert – Backhoe Rollover
20161018 – Internal Incident Alert – Shoulder Strain
20161014 – Internal Incident Alert – Safe Working Breach – Werris Creek