GO SAFE

safety tours

new start SH&E inductions

positive response to safety and wellbeing

SMS assurance

Translink has completed a safety upgrade programme across more than 20 bus stations to enhance passenger and staff safety with improved lighting, safety signage, resurfacing and installation of protective bollards

This eSIP Program was developed to encourage better reporting of accidents, incidents and near misses. It has also made resources available to call at the touch of a button, while using digital notice boards. Part of the program put an emphasis on Slips Trips and Falls initiatives.  

Training has been carried out for employees to learn about the importance of health and safety in the workplace, identify workplace hazards and risks, assess their impact and how to manage them, and how to evaluate and respond to an incident. These support a strong internal safety culture with positive feedback from employees. Further training is planned to take place in 2023

Safety Tours are a means by which Translink Board members, Senior Leadership team, Senior Management Team and Heads of Divisions demonstrate their commitment to SH&E through visible leadership and monitoring the status and effectiveness of Translink SH&E Management Systems helping improve safety performance and culture.  A program of 13 Safety Tours have been carried out by the senior management team in the last financial year.

The previous financial year has seen the introduction of a comprehensive programme of detailed safety audits. In total, 30 audits were carried out in the financial year covering all the main bus and rail engineering sites. The audits have demonstrated a high level of compliance with current safety management systems as well as highlighting areas for further improvement.

The annual SH&E Conference was successfully delivered online, bringing together managers and safety reps to focus on all aspects of safety across the business. The conference reflected on safety improvements that have been made over the last year and renewed our commitment to continuous improvement, ensuring safety remains our number one priority. 

Recently Larne Depot welcomed students from Access Employment Ltd to learn about safety, purchasing tickets and independent travel.  Translink are delighted to have been accredited with a Bronze award from AEL at their Inclusive Employer Awards for recognition of the work carried out with young people with disabilities in the community. 

The Safety Risk Register shows the identified safety risks across the business alongside how we are managing each risk. We are continually developing and refining the system to capture information as events happen to ensure the top risks are identified at a given point in time to help in the preparation of action plans for the relevant Divisions.

Continual efforts were made, and support provided to keep both employees, passengers and those effected by what we do safe as we continue to provide vital services to the people of NI during a very challenging time​. Our measures were recognised as being exemplar and other organisations looked to us for advice and guidance​. Covid-19 Risk Assessments are still under review and public health measures in place to reduce transmission.

Our commitment to ‘Don’t Walk By’ continues to reinforce a safety culture that encourages staff to look out for each other. ‘Don’t Walk By’ and to speak up if something appears unsafe or damaging to health or the environment. Posters have been launched across the business to raise Observations.

They have been deployed at bus stations, rail stations, engineering workshops and across infrastructure sites to encourage positive behaviours and reporting of safety concerns.  This also included the introduction of ‘Good Catch’ forms to capture positive and at-risk safety observations. 

A ‘New Trains 3’ testing programme was successfully completed in line with the roll out of new carriages to create 7 longer, walk through trains providing enhanced capacity across the rail network.

A total of 21 new carriages were combined with 7 refurbished Class 4000 trains, offering around 1600 more seats on our train network. The safety information campaign was designed to generate awareness and remind everyone within the wider community to be extra vigilant around the railway as the intensive period of testing and commissioning involved both day and night-time testing across the network at speeds of up to 90mph.  

Our commitment to getting everyone ‘Safe Home Every Day’ continues to reinforce a safety culture that encourages staff to Focus. Safety is Everyone’s Responsibility, and we must Focus on safety, focus on managing distractions and focus on ensuring everyone goes Safe Home Every Day. 

Within Translink’s Infrastructure and Projects division a Plant Safety Campaign was launched​ to raise awareness to ensure that everyone goes Safe Home Every Day. The campaign aimed to raise awareness about staying safe when working around machinery such as keeping alert, being visible and staying out of danger areas.