Consulting & Engineering
Standards, approvals and safety assurance
Treating standards not as a list of abbreviations but as the route to a safe and approvable solution.
Does this match your situation?
Standards are not an end in themselves.
OSK-Consult supports the classification of technical requirements and the preparation of evidence and approval documents – national and European, and matched to the actual project stage.
- Which requirements apply to this specific modification?
- Which evidence is genuinely required?
- How are national and European rules brought together?
Scope of services
What OSK-Consult takes on.
The individual elements are agreed to suit the question at hand.
- Advice on EBO, BOStrab, ESBO, BOA and private-siding regulations
- Classification of TSIs, EN standards, VDV recommendations and national rules
- CSM risk assessment and significance assessment
- RAMS and functional safety in the system context
- Assurance, approval and authorisation strategies
- Assessment of deviations and special cases
- Technical preparation of documents and consultations
Working together
From the question to the findings.
Agree the question
Place the scheme and the applicable technical requirements.
Carry out the work
Structure the assurance evidence required and the handling of interfaces or deviations.
Explain the findings
Prepare technical documents and consultations within the agreed scope.
OSK-Consult supports the technical preparation and the demonstration of compliance. Approval or authorisation itself is decided by the competent body.
In control-command and signalling, OSK-Consult supports conceptual questions and the interfaces with the overall system. Detailed engineering is handled by specialists from the network.
Technical context
Your contact
Hands-on railway experience and work on national and international projects form the background to the technical judgement.
Career and networkThe first step
Tell us what you are dealing with.
Name the railway system, the location and the planned modification. Details of the approval status so far and of the bodies involved make the first assessment easier.