All Aboard for Safety

Safety is one of CN's guiding principles. Our goal is to help save lives and prevent fatalities and injuries on the job, at highway/railroad crossings, and on or near our tracks and property.

The objective of our community-education program, All Aboard for Safety, is to help prevent fatalities and injuries on or nearrailroad property, and to form partnerships with like-minded community groups.

Our commitment to safety
As a concerned corporate citizen of the towns and cities through which our trains travel, CN is committed to working with community leaders and safety-related organizations to help prevent fatalities and injuries.

For more than 20 years in Canada and the United States, CN employees at all levels of the company, as well as retirees, have been promoting rail safety at highway/railroad crossings and discouraging trespassing on or near railroad property. They have done this by using a wide range of communication channels in many different community forums.

Promoting safety to students
Every year, our employees, including CN Police officers and risk managers, make All Aboard for Safety presentations to more than 100,000 students in more than 700 schools in Canada and the United States.

Safety blitzes
CN Police officers and risk managers, often working with local police services, conduct safety blitzes at busy highway/railroad crossings to help make drivers aware of the importance of safety.
 

Safety train
CN's safety train, Little Obie, is a small version of a real locomotive and caboose on which young children can ride. Measuring two metres (six feet) high, Little Obie travels to CN communities in Canada and the United States to promote safety.

Community Safety Partnerships
CN's All Aboard for Safety program is proud of its collaborative relationships with Operation Lifesaver, a public education program about rail safety; Safe Communities Canada and Safe Communities America, organizations that help communities implement safety programs; Safe Kids Canada and Safe Kids USA, injury-prevention programs for children; SMARTRISK, an injury-prevention program for high school students; and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). CN Police and risk managers also work with law enforcement agencies, firefighters and emergency medical service providers.

Community outreach
CN Police, risk managers and other employees staff All Aboard for Safety displays at community events, shopping malls and trade shows. They also make presentations to school bus drivers, truck drivers, driver's education classes and adult groups.

Mock train-vehicle collisions
CN Police officers and risk managers, in cooperation with local authorities, firefighters, emergency measures organizations and high schools, conduct dramatic simulations of train-vehicle collisions to demonstrate the potentially dire consequences of being careless and/or drinking and driving, especially at highway/railway crossings.

Measurable impact of the All Aboard for Safety Program
The combined effect of the All Aboard for Safety initiatives has helped reduce the number of fatalities and injuries at or near railroad lines and property during the past ten years.

Flyer - Canada (PDF 270.33KB)
Flyer - U.S.  (PDF 254.27KB)