The safety management system of rail transport

The article presents the essence of security management in railway transport and to identify the priorities of Poland’s transportation system. The main problem of paper was formulated as follows: How is the Safety Management System of Rail Transport functioning, taking into account national and international legal regulations and existing threats? In the solving of mentioned problem, the following research methods were applied: analogy, definition, analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, modeling and diagnostic survey with expert research sample. The research was carried out with emploees of company PKP PLK S.A. A systemic approach underlies the Safety Management System (SMS) functioning now in Poland. To guarantee the proper conduct of transport, each railway transportation enterprise and each administrator of infrastructure is required to create a system based on effective risk management. Adequately prepared SMS procedures should assure the implementation of risk control means and the monitoring of the effectiveness of the applied solutions in order to warrant the due level of safety. Presently, digital transformation is of major importance to the development of railway transport. New management systems will be based on technologies utilizing the Internet, automatization, robotization, and new tools, such as big data.