{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-safety-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-7/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/237",
  "legislation_title": "THE RAILWAYS (SAFETY MANAGEMENT) REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-safety-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“accident” means an unwanted or unintended sudden event or a specific chain of such events which have harmful consequences; accidents are divided into the following categories: collisions, derailments, level-crossing accidents, accidents to persons caused by rolling stock in motion, fires and others;\n“fatalities and weighted serious injuries” (“FWSIs”) means a measurement of the consequences of significant accidents combining fatalities and serious injuries, where 1 serious injury is considered statistically equivalent to 0.1 fatalities;\n“level crossing users” means all persons using a level crossing to cross a railway line by any means of transportation or by foot;\n“national reference value” (“NRV”) means a reference measure indicating the maximum tolerable level for a railway risk category;\n“others” means all persons who are not passengers, staff or employees including the staff of contractors, level crossing users, or unauthorised persons on railway premises;\n“passenger-km” means the unit of measure representing the transport of one passenger by rail over a distance of one kilometre;\n“passenger train-km” means the unit of measure representing the movement of a passenger train over one kilometre;\n“risk category” means one of the railway risk categories specified by Article 7(4)(a) and (b) of the Directive;\n“risk to society as a whole” means the collective risk to all categories of persons listed in Article 7(4)(a) of the Directive;\n“safety enhancement plan” means a plan to implement the organisational structure, responsibilities, procedures, activities, capabilities and resources required to reduce the risk for one or more risk categories;\n“staff” or “employees including the staff of contractors” means any persons whose employment is in connection with a railway and is at work at the moment of the accident; it includes the crew of the train and persons handling rolling stock and infrastructure installations;\n“track-km” means the length measured in kilometres of the railway network where each track of a multiple track railway line is to be counted;\n“train-km” means the unit of measure representing the movement of a train over one kilometre; the distance used is the distance actually run, if available, otherwise the standard network distance between the origin and destination must be used;\n“unauthorised persons on railway premises” means any persons present on railway premises where such presence is forbidden, with the exception of level crossing users.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Railways (Safety Management) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.I. 2019/825), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 1 (as amended by S.I. 2019/1310, reg. 1(2)(c), Sch. 2 paras. 2, 3, 4, 5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/237/schedule/7/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:46:35.059486+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}