Safety Leadership

Safety Leadership Principles

Safety management can only be effective when all staff share and live a common commitment to safety. Safety leaders are a catalyst to achieve this goal. They are those brave professionals who always put safety at the forefront and continually reinforce safe behaviour throughout the railway system.

The following five principles and their related expectations describe what safety leadership is about. While they should be adjusted to the specific roles, they apply to any individual contributing to the railway system, independently of the hierarchical level. Hence, they are a useful basis to develop safety leadership skills in any rail organisation.

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Create the safety vision

Involve everyone in the construction of the safety vision
Give safety appropriate importance in the context of other challenges, with the objective of collective efficiency and overall performance
Along with the safety vision, define a strategy that is practical and suited to the needs of the situation on the ground and integrate it into the safety management system
Integrate safety at all levels of the organisation
Evaluate managerial and operational practices to check the implementation of the safety strategy and relevance of the safety vision