I work for CSX and today we just had out monthly overlapping safety meeting showing UP coming in first with the lowest F.I.
How do you do it . We have a safety meeting at the start of each shift we are required to stand up and strech out before going to work and also are bombarded with safety propaganda every where we turn. and supplyed with all the PPE we could ever use.
What types of safety programs do they have on the UP
I have heard horror storys where a second injury is grounds for dismissal , (any truth to this) just wondering
P.S. F.I. stand for Frequenct index or the number of injurys per 100 employees.
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Congratulations to CSX
Good…You just might be abel to teach the UP a thing or two.
Klepper and BNSF, re-read the post again.
The UP is LOWER (better) than the CSX, geniusrus wants to copy what the UP is doing.
Dave H.
Any good safety program is going to look at all accidents and why they happened. Any common threads are going to get attention - that’s one reason you have safety meetings. What can be harder to pick out is a culture that leads to a variety of different types of incidents. Fudging a bit on a given practice might lead to one type of accident this week, and something apparently different next month.
What will make a difference is knowing (and understanding) the rules, and following them. It might not make sense (or make any difference) today, but two weeks down the road, its rationale may become very apparent. The understanding is what’s important, especially to a newby who may not have experienced the conditions that make the rule necessary.
Sometimes an old head is the worst, though, “because we’ve always done it that way.”
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Listen to the fireman!
Please, don’t anybody say that it’s hard to get hurt when the trains aren’t moving!
As someone who sat in on the safety captains’ meetings for most of last year, I can’t see much that UP does differently from your description of CSX. If the stats continue to go this way, in the face of all of the new employees we have, I’d have to give a lot of credit to the peer trainers, who are obviously walking the walk out there.
Indeed – he’s got it. It’s really a culture thing, though, and as CShaveRR said, it’s clear that what’s happening is the folks are not just talking the talk, but walking the walk. In any activity such as railroading (and I’ve been in that, commercial fishing, construction and farming – all dangerous – I seem to go that way?[xx(]) safety has to be a constant habit, all the time, every time, not just a topic or something for now and then. And these guys seem to have the habit.
Keep it up!
As Ed has pointed out in his postings on other threads, PTRA has won a lot of Harriman awards because of their safety culture, everybody works carefully and watches out for each other.
Food for thought: all of the rules in the Safety Book of Rules are there for a reason.