To support our staff, we have established a simple tool: the NSB Safety Card. They hold a simple guideline for smooth and safe co-operation between colleagues. These are rules like:

I am an active part of our safety process and culture.
I recreate and refresh my resilience by taking breaks regularly.
I speak up and I appreciate people doing the same.

On the flipside the cards show an option for the last barrier in case human interaction is about to fail: Stop! Let‘s make a better choice! We will find a safer and smarter way of working together.
“We do not view safety merely as an obligation but as a continuous opportunity to improve our standards and strengthen awareness. Safety concerns all of us, and it wants to be our constant companion.” With this sentence, Guido Kraemer, Head of QHSE of NSB GROUP, opened the speech of the NSB Kick-Off 2024.

The times, they are a changing

The joint message of all speakers was: More than ever, the times are dominated by tremendous global and industrial changes. The only way to respond to this and to feel confident and safe in decisions is to promote and live the motto: “Better together”.

“We should remind ourselves every day, that safety is nothing we can delegate to anyone else. It is our all and personal obligation to interact continuously with our colleagues ashore and on board that they always act in safe manners and that they observe and identify unsafe acts of themselves and others. According to the saying “Engine and Deck always arrive alongside at the same time”, we need to understand ourselves even more as a unit, working hand in hand towards our common goals. Thus, my keyword of this year is ownership. Owning a task, owning a responsibility for individual and joint results is the key to successful cooperation”, emphasized Tim Ponath, CEO of NSB.