RAILWAY SAFETY

IS A TEAM EFFORT

Railway safety is our business. To keep our rail network as safe as possible, we all need to work together.
Please report all rail safety issues and concerns to us so that we can do our job of making trains a safer for everyone.

RAILWAY

NETWORK STATS

Every year, trains across South Africa take journeys totalling more than 20 million kilometres. That’s like travelling to the moon and back 26 times.
KM OF TRAIN TRACK
TRAIN STATIONS
MILLION PASSENGERS A YEAR
BILLION TONS OF FREIGHT ANNUALLY
REGISTERED RAIL OPERATORS

NEWS & INFORMATION

Keep up-to-date with the latest rail safety news, events, reports and resources.
News
RSR Regulatory Tools Publication The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR), in terms of the National Railway Safety Regulator Act No. 16 of 2002, as amended (“the Act”), hereby publishes the following regulatory tools:

The Safety Management System Determination The Draft Safety Management Systems Determination is hereby published for Public Comments. All interested and affected Stakeholders are hereby invited to submit their written comments within 60 days from the date of publication of this Draft Safety Management Systems Determination in the Government Gazette, for comments.    All written comments […]

Events
The RSR entered into a partnership with Takalani Sesame to educate South African children on how to utilize the South African railway infrastructure in a safe and responsible way.

As part of its profiling initiatives and strengthening its course to educate young minds, the RSR identified Sesame Workshop International South Africa (SWISWA), a non-profit Early Childhood Development organisation headquartered in Johannesburg as a partner in its endeavour. SWISWA is the non-profit organisation behind the very popular Takalani Sesame programme that reaches 3.5 million children […]

RAIL SAFETY INCIDENTS

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