Traficom grants a safety authorisation to infrastructure managers operating in Finland. The safety authorisation indicates that the manager has at their disposal a compliant safety management system, which ensures the ability to manage infrastructure safely.
Traficom grants the infrastructure manager a safety authorisation for the design, construction, maintenance and management of the infrastructure. The safety authorisation is an indication that the infrastructure manager has respected the safety requirements in their operations and is able to operate as an infrastructure manager on a part of the infrastructure it administers.
The condition for obtaining a safety authorisation is that the infrastructure manager has a functional safety management system. Additional information and description of a safety management system required for a safety authorisation is found on Safety management system for railway undertakings (External link)-site.
The Commission Recommendation on practical arrangements for issuing safety authorisations to infrastructure managers (EU) 2019/780 is an essential decree of the application for safety authorization.
You can find additional information about safety management system in Safety management system for railway undertakings (External link) page and European Union Agency for Railways’ pages.
Olli Matilainen
Email: olli.matilainen@traficom.fi
Phone: 029 534 6410
Antti Kesälahti
Email: antti.kesalahti@traficom.fi
Phone: 029 534 5014
The application and its attachments shall be sent to kirjaamo@traficom.fi . Traficom shall make a decision on the issuing of the safety authorisation within four months of the date on which the Agency has received all the information necessary to resolve the matter.
Up-to-date information on the pricing of the safety authorisation can be found in the Fees Regulation regarding Finnish Transport and Communications Agency in force at a given time found for example on finelx.fi.
