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All COSS must be willing and able to learn and retain information and apply it in the work environment. This is not simply about demonstrating ambition and a desire to be promoted, it is about the drive to maintain and develop one's own skills, recognising that there are always opportunities for improvement.

A controller of site safety or COSS is a person qualified by the British company Network Rail to ensure safe practice for work occurring on or near rail infrastructure. Their primary role is to set up a safe system of work to protect staff from trains and trains from staff and activities.

The COSS wears a blue badge with 'COSS' on it. A safety briefing will include: where you will work and what you will do. how you will get to the work site.

A position of safety is an area clear of all open lines where you can stand safely until the train has passed or where you should go to when you get warning that a train is approaching. The COSS or Safe Work Leader will tell you where the position of safety is for your worksite, before you start working there.

A controller of site safety or COSS is a person qualified by the British company Network Rail to ensure safe practice for work occurring on or near rail infrastructure. Their primary role is to set up a safe system of work to protect staff from trains and trains from staff and activities.

Safety briefing The COSS (controller of site safety) will make sure that you have a safe system of work (sometimes called SSOW) so you are not at risk from trains or electrified equipment.

The COSS/SWL briefing. A COSS briefing. If you're walking in a group of two or more people on or near the line, you must be accompanied by a controller of site safety, known as a COSS. Their role is to make sure that nobody is put in danger from electrification equipment or from trains.

Safety briefing The COSS (controller of site safety) will make sure that you have a safe system of work (sometimes called SSOW) so you are not at risk from trains or electrified equipment. The COSS wears a blue badge with 'COSS' on it. A safety briefing will include: where you will work and what you will do.

The COSS will stop the work, move everyone to a position of safety, and then brief everyone on the new safe system of work. Always comply with any briefings or instructions from the COSS, or you could be endangering your or you work mates' lives.

A position of safety is an area clear of all open lines where you can stand safely until the train has passed or where you should go to when you get warning that a train is approaching. The COSS or Safe Work Leader will tell you where the position of safety is for your worksite, before you start working there.

If you are acting as Lookout, you must wear a white armlet or badge with 'LOOKOUT' in red letters. The COSS will tell you: where to stand who to watch where they will be working the limits of the Safe System of Work.

Safety briefing The COSS (controller of site safety) will make sure that you have a safe system of work (sometimes called SSOW) so you are not at risk from trains or electrified equipment. The COSS wears a blue badge with 'COSS' on it. A safety briefing will include: where you will work and what you will do.