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RISSB’s Priority Planning Forum: Building next year’s Work Plan RISSB chief executive officer Paul Daly discusses the development and goals of next year’s Work Plan.
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RISSB urges everyone in the rail industry to take advantage of RISSB’s Priority Planning Forum, and tell us what you think are the important products you need RISSB to start next year
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HE RAIL INDUSTRY AND SAFETY Standards Board (RISSB) works to develop and deliver a suite of products and services which benefit our funding members and the wider rail community. However, RISSB does not develop products in isolation, and every year sets it Work Plan based on the strong collaboration with, and the wishes of, the industry stakeholders. The first step in developing our work plan for the coming year is the Priority Planning Forum (PPF), our annual invitation to industry stakeholders to help us determine which proposed products will have the biggest positive impact on the rail industry, and which should receive RISSB development priority. Over the past three years RISSB has worked hard to restructure the PPF process to ensure that as wide a section of industry as possible has the opportunity to propose projects, and then rank them. Submissions for new Standards, Codes of Practice, Guidelines and Forms have been received from all across the industry, this year in record numbers, and have been posted on the RISSB website for the past two weeks for industry to read and ask questions. This information period is about to close and the important ranking period is about to begin. So how can industry get involved in the ranking of the submissions? It’s as easy as logging onto the RISSB website, heading for the PPF section, and placing the projects in order of importance, with the top project being the most important and the last project being the least important. Once the ranking period is closed, RISSB will analyse the results and establish its new projects for the 2019/20 financial year. The ranking process is open to anyone with an interest in the development of RISSB
ABOVE: RISSB chief executive officer Paul Daly.
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products, with all rankings contributing to the overall results. The PPF is a very important process in the co-regulation system that the rail industry enjoys and is one of the few opportunities where industry stakeholders have direct input into the production and development of product. RISSB urges everyone in the rail industry to take advantage of RISSB’s Priority Planning Forum, and tell us what you think are the important products you need RISSB to start next year, and as always, if you have any questions on the PPF, check out our website or give us a call. The two-week ranking period commences on March 18 and will end on March 31.
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