Safety
Training
First in the line of defense against accidents and injuries are our people. BNSF employees share a vision for an injury- and
accident-free workplace. Through BNSF’s newest employee safety training initiative, Approaching Others About Safety, we
have trained approximately 33,000 team members to be confident and effective when speaking to one another about safety.
The program encourages attention to the exposures that result in 97 percent of fatalities and serious injuries. It also highlights
opportunities to mitigate risk.
According to the Federal Railroad Administration, 2013 was the second straight year of record safety performance by U.S. freight
railroads. Thanks to the diligence of our employees and our effective safety process, we closed 2013 with an injury frequency
rate of 1.08 (per 200,000 work hours or 100 employees working full time over a year), a 3 percent decrease over 2012.
Community
Emergency
Response
In addition to training our people to prevent
accidents and injuries, BNSF works closely
with communities and emergency response
personnel to prepare for emergencies. In
2013, BNSF hazardous materials teams visited
18 states and one Canadian province on our
network to train approximately 3,900 public
emergency responders. More than 65,000
emergency responders have been trained
since 1996 so that people and resources are
in place to respond should an accident occur.
