The ATSB is Australia’s national transport safety investigator. Investigations seek to identify safety issues and encourage safety action to reduce the risk of future accidents and incidents.

• Rail safety

  The TSI Act 2003 provides a legislative basis for the ATSB to conduct rail safety investigations on the Defined Interstate Rail Network.

• Rail safety investigations and reports

  Rail accidents and incidents investigation reports.

• Rail safety recommendations and advisory notices

  The ATSB issues recommendations to regulatory authorities, operators, manufacturers or other agencies in order to address safety deficiencies. Click here to view recommendations and safety advisory notices made by the ATSB.

• Rail publications

  Follow this link to view all rail related publications.

• Rail statistics

  Statistics from the Australian Rail Occurrence Database.

• Rail weekly summaries

  Follow this link to view Rail weekly summaries.

• National jurisdiction for rail investigations

  With the creation of national safety regulator for the rail industry, it is proposed that the ATSB expand its activities.

• Procedures

• Investigation procedures and deciding whether to investigate

  How the ATSB decides whether to investigate and classification process.

• Railway acccident guidelines for operators, police and emergency personnel

• Reporting

• Mandatory rail accident or incident notification

  Rail owners, operators, track access providers, and other 'responsible persons' are obliged, to report any accident.