FirstClass Safety & Control has reinforced its commitment to improving safety across the rail industry through its support of the Rail Safety Summit 2024 at Loughborough University.
FirstClass sponsored the event, which brought together organisations and safety professionals from across the railway to share experience, discuss current challenges and consider how the industry can continue to improve safety performance.
Safety has been at the heart of FirstClass’s engineering capability for more than 25 years. The company designs, manufactures and supports safety-critical systems for rail depots, workshops and maintenance facilities, with solutions engineered around the infrastructure, operational procedures and safety requirements of each application.
Its rail capability includes Depot Protection Systems, Depot Control and Locally Operated Points Systems (LOPS), Personnel Warning Systems and electronic and trapped key Interlocking Solutions.
Alongside new systems, FirstClass supports the upgrade, extension and modification of existing and legacy installations. This allows customers to consider what equipment and infrastructure can practically be retained and integrated rather than assuming complete replacement is necessary.
The Rail Safety Summit provides an important forum for sharing experience and learning across organisational boundaries, bringing together operators, infrastructure organisations, suppliers and safety professionals.
For FirstClass, supporting events such as the Summit forms part of a wider commitment to industry engagement and the continued development of safer working environments across rail depots and maintenance facilities.
From its UK engineering and manufacturing facility, FirstClass supports rail projects in the UK and internationally, combining established safety and control engineering experience with application-specific system design and long-term engineering support.