BNSF commitment to safety - posters and signs everywhere

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

The first sentence in a Penn Central Rules for Conducting Transportaion which I have at home is "Safety is of the first importance in the discharge of duty". Ed and all the other professionals who have appeared in this forum have long stressed safety at work in a variety of ways. It was over thirty years ago but I can still remember a safety meeting at my summer job in a steel warehouse in which both the foreman and the union rep made sure that everyone was paying attention, much to the embarrassment and discomfort of those who weren't.

Stressing safety helps keep you alive and intact.

[UPTRAIN]

If you work for UP..."I AM THE KEY TO SAFETY!"

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mvlandsw

CSX is even putting them up on the wall behind the urinals. It keeps the janitor busy.

lol.... reminds me when i was in engineers school.... on the wall at evey urinal..and on the door of evey crapper.... was the the defintion of restriced and controlled speed.... so while you where talking care of natuers call...you where still getting the rules programed....lol
csx engineer

[mvlandsw]

CSX is even putting them up on the wall behind the urinals. It keeps the janitor busy.

[MP57313]

Our labs at work have safety signs everywhere, but they don't show pictures of "what went wrong".

One thing...most of the crew members had hearing protection but a few didn't. Noisy out there!

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton

The problem is they put up so many posters that you're too busy looking at them and fall in an inspection pit.

lol..but if that happend..they would nail you for not watching where you where walking...i knew of a foreman that got a "pointer" from a boss becoues he was walking and reading his switchlist at the same time....lol
csx engineer

[CSXrules4eva]

That doesn't suprise me that BNSF has safety signs every were around their yards. I know one of NS's yards Abrams Yard in Norristown, PA has safety signs all over the yard. One that I always see on NS property is "Safety Begins Here" or "NS the Throughbread of Safety".
At my job in the diesel mechinest shops we have safety signs every two feet, espually around the overhead cranes. One of the main signs that's hung up is Safety First, we even have rugs that have "Think Safety" on them. My employer stress safety at all of out meetings, so I can understand why the safety signs are there.

[ValleyX]

Safety, safety, safety, there's never any end to it. I once got out of jury duty because the lawyer essentially told me that as a career railroader, I probably knew a lot about safety and had it emphasized as an essential part of my job. That was all for me! No, it's not a bad thing to have it thrown in your face all the time, I'm sure it helps prevent some of the screw-ups that happen just by making someone think just a LITTLE BIT MORE.

[mudchicken]

The cages around the intermodal IT vehicles is not new and it is not the containers that is the issue, it is the bare chassis lying around everywhere at windshield height.

[Hugh Jampton]

The problem is they put up so many posters that you're too busy looking at them and fall in an inspection pit.

[csxengineer98]

this is normal eveyday propganda for any class 1 railroad...and just about any major industry where thier is great risk involved when preforming work...they put up posters like this....its nothing new...
csx engineer

[MP57313]

Today I went on a tour of some BNSF facilities in So Cal - Pico Rivera, Commerce and Hobart. Everywhere, there were signs and posters reminding employees and visitors about safety.

Some of the posters had photos of major derailments/collisions. "What color was that last signal?" My employer (not a railroad) has plenty of safety posters/warnings but nothing like these! They really drive home the message...

Outside, one of the more interesting things was the "roll bars" on the front of crew vans and other street vehicles. These vehicles were in the Hobart yard area where containers are loaded onto rail cars...the roll bars protect the vehicle occupants in case they collide with a container being lifted by a crane.
Hobart is a hopping place.

MP