Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how frequently (a) risk assessments and (b) health and safety policies are reviewed at individual train stations.

Under health and safety law, enforced by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), station operators are required to carry out risk assessments in order to identify the measures they need to put in place to ensure the transport system they operate is safe. They must review risk assessments if they have reason to believe they are no longer valid or if there is a significant change in the matters to which the assessment relates. In order to operate services, operators are also required to operate and maintain a safety management system and to have this certified or authorised by the ORR every five years. This management system must include a company safety policy and the arrangements to communicate it to all staff.