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    Health & Safety at Colas Rail, a shared culture

    At Colas Rail, we are all responsible for our safety.

    Because everyone deserves to return home safe and sound, safety is the Group’s core value. This collective continuous improvement approach is part of our operational excellence objectives. This commitment aims to guarantee the health and safety of all those involved in carrying out work across the rail industry.

    We aim to create a shared safety culture within our businesses, shared across all of our sites and with our stakeholders.

    Our state of mind to achieve zero accidents

    Colas Rail is developing its safety culture across all our sites.

    It is based on prevention and shared vigilance. This philosophy is implemented through our programs to improve the group’s safety culture.

    Lifesaving Rules

    Specific to our 12 areas of expertise, our Livesaving Rules were created to reduce the risk of serious accidents and ensure that our approach to safety in clear and easy to understand.

    We’ve developed a genuine safety culture to protect the wellbeing and lives of our employees. These rules exist to ensure everyone’s safety guaranteed at all times. There are no exceptions or exclusions with a positive and educational approach where no tolerance is accepted.

    Other initiatives we have integrated into the daily lives of our employees to maximize their safety include:

    • The « Buddy Check »: action based on prevention and collective vigilance which allows two or more employees to act, together, to self-check their personal safety equipment and thus, intervene immediately if an employee puts himself at risk
    • Safety warm-ups and briefings carried out before starting any activity
    • Awareness events, such as Safety Week to improve understanding of our Lifesaving Rules and allow employees and our supply chain partners to better understand our rules by spreading awareness
    • Safety challenges (Safety observation of the month)

    What are our guiding principles for this mindset?

    • All accidents or incidents are avoidable
    • Example is the key to safety success
    • All site staff must receive adequate training adapted to his/her job; so effectiveness is verified
    • No activity should start without risk analyses and prior preventive measures
    • Preventive Health & Safety measures are communicated, understood and applied by all within each team
    • Any accident and incident is the subject to an analysis and an action plan, so effectiveness is verified