Develop Your Workforce With Advanced Rail Safety Skills
TLIF0045 – Investigate Rail Safety Incidents & TLIF5023 Undertake a Derailment Investigation
Looking to build your workforce while enhancing your business operations? Look no further than our short courses in Rail Safety and Derailment Investigations
This units equips participants with the skills to effectively conduct rail safety investigations in line with regulatory standards, industry rules, and operational procedures as outlined in ARISO’s Rail Safety Investigation CoP.
Based on the updated ARISO (formerly RISSB) Code of Practice for Rail Safety Investigations 2025.
Develop an understanding of the principles, methods, and requirements for investigating derailments in accordance with ARISO’s Derailment Investigation and Analysis Guideline.
Based on the updated ARISO (formerly RISSB) Guideline for Derailment Investigation Analysis 2025.
TLIF0045 - Investigate Rail Safety Incidents
This course equips participants with the skills to conduct and document railway safety incident investigations, drawing on industry best practices.
Over four days, you will explore:
• Regulatory requirements for rail safety investigations
• Causes of rail safety incidents
• Rail safety investigation types
• Planning the investigation
• Categories of evidence
• Collecting, recording and preserving evidence
• Gathering information through interviews
• Analysing evidence
• Human factors and contributing factor frameworks
• Developing conclusions and safety actions
• Structuring and writing a rail safety investigation report
Non – Member Rate*: $4,474
ARISO Member Rate*: $3,393
*GST Not Applicable
• Strengthen the thoroughness of investigations, evidence collection and report writing
• Accurately identify root causes of rail safety occurrences
• Improve interviewing skills
• Develop a clear, consistent process for investigating rail safety occurrences using a simple, standardised investigation method
• Deepen your understanding of National Rail Safety Law, the ARISO Code of Practice for Rail Safety Investigations and the Contributing Factors Framework
This course is ideal for anyone working in the Australian rail industry who is involved in, or likely to be involved in, investigating rail safety occurrences.
This four-day face-to-face course is delivered by a TICRail trainer and incorporates case study discussion and analysis, brainstorming, open discussion, and question-and-answer sessions.
TLIF5023 - Undertake a Derailment Investigation
This course provides an overview of the mechanisms and factors that contribute to derailments, along with practical guidance on collecting, inspecting, and interpreting evidence. Investigating a derailment is a complex process that must be conducted in a structured and thorough manner to correctly identify causes and contributing factors.
Over three days, you will explore:
• Theories of derailments
• Derailment reporting requirements
• Infrastructure and operational derailment influences
• Track construction and maintenance influences
• POM, POL and POD and their impacts
• Wheel to rail interface issues
• Impact of human factors
• Prevention strategies
• And many more topics.
Non – Member Rate*: $3,496
ARISO Member Rate*: $2,622
*GST Not Applicable
• Develop greater awareness of derailment investigations
• Build confidence in evidence collection and report writing
• Accurately identify the contributing factors that caused the derailment
• Deepen your understanding of derailment investigation methodologies
• Gain knowledge of how operations, rolling stock and track-related factors contribute to derailments
• Build an understanding of rail safety management and incident reduction strategies
This course is ideal for anyone required to investigate derailments as part of their role, including:
• Current and new rail safety investigators and inspectors
• Operations superintendents and managers
• Train and track engineers
• Safety advisors and safety management personnel
• Maintenance managers
• Employees of rail and track regulator
This three-day facilitator-led course relies heavily on class interaction and participation, including practical skills application.