Abstract

Recently, the issue of safety has not been whether or not Safety Management Systems are necessary to secure a high level of operational safety in railways but if they could eventually be improved. The answer is yes and that improvement can be done on the basis of well known (and adapted to the problems of safety) scientific approaches and methods. In other words, safety understanding will be developed into a new stage – Modern Safety Management System. The present paper discusses the possibilities for the introduction of some scholarly methods into safety management in railways.