Safety & compliance
QSHE advice and audits that keep your operation safe and demonstrably compliant.
As a railway undertaking you have to comply with legislation and regulation, you need a licence before you may operate and run trains in the Netherlands, and your safety management system describes every procedure and process you work by. OBV supports you with all three, from certification through to your day-to-day questions.
What applies to you
Legislation and regulation
As a railway undertaking you have to comply with the legislation and regulation that applies to your operation.
A licence to operate
You need a licence before you may act as a railway undertaking and run trains in the Netherlands.
A safety management system
Your safety management system describes all of the procedures and processes your organisation works by.
How we support you
Three ways of working together, from taking you through certification end to end to answering one specific question.
Guidance with applications
From application to certificate, start to finish
OBV guides you through your application for the Single Safety Certificate, or for any national additions to it. We go through the whole process with you.
- The Single Safety Certificate application and national additions
- Setting up or rebuilding your safety management system
- Support at internal audits
- Support at external audits
- Support at audits by the regulator
Interim safety management
A safety manager on a periodic basis
If you have no safety manager available for a while, or the size of your organisation is a reason to draw on external expertise, we can take on safety-management tasks for you on a periodic basis.
Bespoke advice
For one question or a single audit
If you would rather not have full guidance or periodic safety management, we advise you on a bespoke basis: on a specific question, on internal audits, or in support of an external audit.
Responsibility for the safety management system remains with your organisation.
Three sets of eyes on the same system
Your safety management system is examined by your own organisation, by an independent party and by the supervisory authority. Each looks at the same system from a different distance. We prepare you for all three, and we are beside you when the time comes.
Who examines your safety management system, not a schedule: which audits apply to you, and when, depends on your certification.
Alongside the Legal Desk
This department carries out the additional modules offered on the Legal Desk Netherlands page: safety management, compliance and certification, and management systems. If what you need is a combination of them, this is the right place to start.
Legal Desk Netherlands