Colin Bonnet

Head of section Scientific Bases

Colin Bonnet has a background in environmental engineering and has been working in the fields of risk management and safety for the past 15 years focusing on major accident prevention, development of the international regulation for the transport of dangerous goods by rail, as well as occurrence reporting and risk management of public transport in Switzerland (railways, cableways, ships, trams and buses).

Occurrence reporting and risk management by the Swiss National Safety Authority

NSA CH manages a database for the mandatory reporting of incidents in public transport. It analyses around 4 000 events reported each year and uses this information in its risk management process. This allows a risk-based optimisation of its safety supervision activities.