The RailStaff Awards 2024

Nominations for Safety Person or Team Award

Carla Watts

Said the following about Community Safety:

“Network Rail is electrifying the Great Western Main Line (GWML) which is the biggest transformation of the railway since Brunel. Ali and Steve are Community Safety Managers at Network Rail and have been working with passion and dedication to educate young people across the region on how they can keep themselves and others safe on the railway.

In just 3 years, Ali and Steve have reached an incredible 445,000 young people in more than 840 primary and secondary schools within 4,000 metres of the railway to deliver crucial safety awareness messages. They have been fantastic at informing young people about the project and how they can keep safe on the new electrified railway.

The hard work, dedication and planning that went into talking to so many children, young people and community groups about railway safety has reaped benefits as they successfully delivered the electrification community safety plan to schedule and with repeated positive praise from schools and community groups that they visited. This is the largest undertaking of any type around rail safety nationally across Network Rail and one that Ali & Steve should be extremely proud of delivering.“