Safety is a team effort
Safety is an important element in our value-based culture and a key factor in our sustainability agenda. We live according to our values when we take safety into consideration in everything we do – we care, we work together and we drive improvement. Safety is built from small everyday choices and guides decision-making at all levels of the organisation.
We take a positive approach to safety and focus on succeeding in our work. Most of the working days go without safety deviations or accidents. We want to learn from our daily work and successes before anything unfortunate happens. This also allows us to share best practices.
We want to learn from our daily work and successes before anything unfortunate happens.
Safety is not just about avoiding accidents – it is about the ability to understand, assess and manage risks and act in varying situations and circumstances, managing the risks. That is why we focus on what matters most: preventing serious accidents. We ensure that we have effective risk management methods in place for hazards.
We take responsibility for the safety of our employees and customers in the strictly regulated operating environment of rail and public transport. However, we want to do more than just fulfil our responsibilities; we want to actively build safety. This ensures successful and resilient operations.
Our goal is that every employee returns home safely from work and that passengers and goods arrive safely at their destination.
Safety development based on continuous improvement
Our employees are top professionals in their field, and safe working is a key part of the competence and professional pride of VR’s employees.
We involve all of our employees in the development of safety by encouraging open discussion and making development proposals that improve safety. Active reporting of proactive safety observations demonstrates the commitment of our personnel to safety work and enables safety improvements before accidents occur.
Whether in terms working conditions, tools or practices, we make sure that our employees have the prerequisites to act safely. We strive to understand daily work; where its challenges are and, on the other hand, what effective practices are. We also develop technology that supports safe working and invest in training. It is about continuous improvement.
Safe working is a key part of the competence and professional pride of VR’s employees.
Safety is done not only between VR’s various occupational and units, but also with the authorities, customers and other stakeholders. Cooperation is the key to success in the transport sector, which involves many different actors. It guarantees safe travel and transportation around the clock, every day of the year.
At VR, the cornerstones of safety are:
- Leadership and commitment
- Understanding hazards
- Managing risks
- Continuous improvement
Safety is part of social responsibility in VR’s sustainability agenda
Safety is part of social responsibility in VR’s sustainability agenda. We monitor the development of safety using the following indicator
- Zero fatalities or serious injuries
- Injury frequency
- Safety observations and their coverage
- Safety incident frequency in rail and bus traffic
