Today, at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, the UNI/PdR 189 reference practices developed by Fermerci and UNI - Italian Standardization Body and dedicated to the qualification and training of personnel employed in the railway traffic safety activities. The initiative is part of a European regulatory context that has progressively allocated to railway undertakings and managers of the infrastructure full responsibility in defining the of essential safety tasks and related routes training needs, making it necessary to have greater coordination between the operators.

The document collects the technical experience of the operators and defines a first shared model for the qualification of professionals involved in security activities of railway traffic.

"Railway safety - underlined the president by Fermerci, Clemente Carta - represents the fundamental framework within which all the activities of the sector are placed: it is The North Star that guides our work is a principle essential for the entire system. In this context, tools of voluntary legislation such as the reference practices are not a bureaucratic burden for the sector but an opportunity to improve the rules through engagement and input of all the actors involved".