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2009 Environmental Health & Safety Report
5
Success Stories - 2009
Prevention Testing Program that was agreed upon by Amtrak and the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration.
The Public Health staff was also instrumental in developing
and activating the company’ s Pandemic Flu Plan when the
Pandemic Emergency was announced in June 2009 by the
World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
The new pest management services contract was awarded to Copesan in May of 2009. The
new program is designed to maintain a pest-free environment at inspection and servicing
stations, commissaries, maintenance facilities, on rail equipment and at maintenance-of-
way locations along the Northeast Corridor.
Safety
Amtrak’ s Safety group promotes a safer company for employees, customers, passengers,
and other workers on company property through the System Safety Program.
In 2009, the group continued to successfully use the Cross-Functional Team concept to
identify at-risk activities, evaluate effective control measures and implement corrective
action plans. Safety Policy and Auditing staff worked with all departments to develop
safety policy updates on portable electric devices and asbestos management. In addition,
the Safety Audit Program continued to evaluate the state of compliance with regulatory
rules and company policies and procedures by conducting audits at 23 facilities across the
country.
Industrial hygiene program activities continued to focus on anticipating, recognizing,
evaluating and controlling potential health hazards and the risk of exposure to chemical and
physical agents in the workplace.
Perhaps the biggest success story in the Safety area, however, involved the company-wide
creation of Safe-2-Safer (S2S) to transform the company’ s safety culture and behaviors.
S2S will be rolled out in various regional divisions over the next three years and is
designed to radically improve safety and security performance by fostering a more
collaborative workplace.
The following sections provide a more detailed look at the programs, projects, activities
and measures of success in Amtrak’ s Environmental Health and Safety organization.