ONRSR Portal

The ONRSR Portal can be used by accredited rail transport operators to:

• Submit notifiable occurrence reports
• Submit monthly returns
• Submit notifications of change
• Amend some organisational contact details
• Add new users or modify user details (rail transport operators can manage their own ONRSR Portal user groups for their organisations).

The ONRSR Portal is the preferred means for submitting information for the above reporting requirements. The submission of information via the ONRSR Portal satisfies the submission of information in the manner and form (in reference to the Rail Safety National Law National Regulations 2012) that:

• is required by the Regulator for the reporting of a notifiable occurrence under Regulation 57(4);
• is approved by the Regulator under s120(3) of the Rail Safety National Law for the submission of monthly returns (as required under Regulation 56); and
• is accepted as notification in writing in respect to Regulation 9(1) for the submission of a notification of change.

The ONRSR Portal requires a unique user ID and password for each user.

The Key Contact person (as nominated to ONRSR as required by Regulation 8(b) of the Rail Safety National Law National Regulations 2012) for each accredited rail transport operator has been established as a user of the ONRSR Portal. Once an organisation’s ONRSR Portal access is activated, the Key Contact will be sent an email from the ONRSR Portal confirming their user ID (email address) and providing an initial password.

The Key Contact can initiate the creation of additional users as required by their organisation.

The ONRSR Portal is accessed via the ONRSR Portal link located at the top right hand corner on the ONRSR homepage.

If you have difficulties in using the ONRSR Portal assistance is available.

ONRSR staff with specific knowledge on the use of the ONRSR Portal are available by:

• phoning 1300 459 941; or
• sending an email message via the ONRSR Portal “Contact Us” function

ONRSR has staff available to directly answer telephone enquiries during the following hours, outside of which a message can be left and will be responded to at the earliest opportunity:

• 10:00 am to 3:00 pm (South Australia & Northern Territory)
• 10:30 am to 3:30 pm (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania)
• 8:30 am to 1:30 pm (Western Australia)

The ONRSR Portal enables partial completion of information to be saved.  Saving information is not considered to be submission of this information. Information will be taken to have been submitted to ONRSR once the user has clicked submit (or update) and the ONRSR Portal has indicated that the submission was successful (i.e. the ONRSR Portal has not prompted for any missing or incorrect information).

Current forms that are used for the submission of notifiable occurrences, monthly returns and notifications of change remain available and can be used should the ONRSR Portal not be accessible.

The ONRSR Portal is the subject of an ongoing development program to incrementally introduce additional functionality. Apart from face to face contact as part of our regulatory activities, ONRSR envisages the majority of information exchange interactions will be done via the portal.