Safety culture as the basis for risk management in railway companies

Abstract

The functioning of railway transport as a critical element of the national and global transport system is characterized by a high level of technological complexity, a multi-level organizational structure and significant dependence on the coordination of human, technical and digital components. In such conditions, ensuring the safety of the transportation process cannot be considered exclusively through the prism of the technical reliability of the infrastructure or formalized risk management procedures, since the key determinant of the system's stability is the safety culture as an integrated set of values, norms of behavior and management practices that determine the priority of safety at all levels of the organization.