SNCF - Women working in Safety (FR with EN subtitles)

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Title: SNCF - Women working in Safety (FR with EN subtitles)
Caption: Video made up of interviews with women working in safety at SNCF. They react to different questions, presented as clichés to debunk: Cliché 1: What do people working in safety actually do? Cliché 2: Nothing ever changes when it comes to safety! Cliché 3: Once you're there, you're there for life... Cliché 4: Do women ever apply? These questions provide a playful and educational approach to the issue of safety, which is presented as a priority for SNCF. The eight women interviewed show their vision of what safety is, their daily work, their career path and the commitments made by SNCF to respect gender equality. The women interviewed are: Valérie Boismartel - Project Manager, Infringement of Personal Safety, Safety Department SNCF Mobilités Eve Silberstein - Director, Traffic Management Operations Centre (EIC), Ile de France Yasmine Benamrane - Manager, Feedback & Safety Management, Safety Directorate Annie Bertrand - Director, Transport Safety Karine Ongaro - Director, Traffic Management Operations Centre (EIC), Pays de la Loire Patricia Roy Varlette - Project Manager - Simplification, Rolling Stock Department Isabelle Pont - Regional Operations Manager - Centre Val de Loire Region Sophie Guillon - QSE Manager, Technicentre Quatre-Mares.
Production: Elephant at work
Copyright: SNCF
Duration: 00:05:42
Technical description: coul./son.
Language: FR/EN
Creation Date: 01/04/2019
Collection: Videos - grand public
Keywords: FRANCE, HUMAN ERROR, PERSONNEL, RAILWAY SAFETY, RISK, SAFETY, SAFETY MEASURES, WOMEN, WORK, WORKING CONDITIONS

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[KO] I suppose people might think that safety is very rigid or inflexible...
[VB] But, actually, safety is nothing like that.
[AB] And it doesn't just involve the experts - absolutely not.
[SG] Everyone has a role to play - both men and women.
[YB] It's very much a profession for the future. It involves a bit of everything, really.
[PRV] Safety jobs require adaptability and a multitude of skills.
[Title card] Safety: myth versus reality
[Title card] Cliché 1 - What do people working in safety actually do?
[AB] Um...oh... (rire)
[IP] People don't understand what's involved in safety (rire).
[Graphics] Valérie Boismartel - Project Manager, Infringement of Personal Safety, Safety Department SNCF Mobilités
[VB] I've been working here for 28 years, and from my very first day at the company, I've heard the message that safety is key at SNCF.
[Graphics] Eve Silberstein - Director, Traffic Management Operations Centre (EIC), Ile de France
[ES] We don't do safety just for the sake of it in this company. Safety is a holistic activity - it involves everyone.
[Graphics] Yasmine Benamrane - Manager, Feedback & Safety Management, Safety Directorate
[YB] It's railway safety and occupational health and safety. Protecting our employees on the ground, as well as our service providers.
[Graphics] Annie Bertrand - Safety and Security Director - SNCF Voyages - SNCF Mobilités
[AB] It's also about the environment and fire safety. And it's about security. It's what we call "integrated safety".
[Title card] Cliché 2 - Nothing ever changes when it comes to safety.
[VB] Grrrr (rire).
[PRV] Well, I don"t know who could have said that, but...
[Graphics] Karine Ongaro - Director, Traffic Management Operations Centre (EIC), Pays de la Loire
[KO] We have moved away from the old ethos, under which people thought that a good railway employee was one who didn't make mistakes. So, when mistakes were made, people often tended to hide them. But we've shifted towards a mindset of improvement - we take stock of our employees' and operators' mistakes so that we can get better.
[YB] What we're developing at the moment is a fair and just safety culture. That means acknowledging that yes, people make mistakes.
[AB] Integrating organisational and human factors into our analyses and the changes we are making is a completely new approach for us.
[KO] It's essentially a programme to drive greater trust and transparency.
[ES] It's up to us, particularly in the traffic management operations centres, to raise issues which may, in time, bring about changes to the regulations.
[YB] The objective is to protect and, in particular, to act from a preventive rather than a reactive standpoint.
[Title card] Cliché 3 - Once you're there, you're there for life...
[SG] Oh, no, not at all! (rire)
[KO] Well, that's all wrong (rire).
[YB] I had an engineering career before I moved into this. It wasn't necessarily something I was predestined to do. Who knows - maybe in the future I'll move back into pure production, but safety will always be part of my job.
[KO] I've had a number of different management roles, first managing smaller teams and then larger ones, as I do today. I also held various specialist roles in between, in safety in particular. For me, it's a balanced, vibrant career, with lots to learn.
[VB] I've been in the role for a month. I'm getting to know a whole network of stakeholders who are extremely committed and passionate. So, I'll be able to develop new skills.
[Graphics] Patricia Roy Varlette - Project Manager - Simplification, Rolling Stock Department
[PRV] Career paths in safety are by no means predetermined - nor should they be, in my opinion. We need a mix of different profiles. And everyone benefits. Regardless of whether you begin your career in safety, come to it mid-career or move into it closer to retirement...it makes no difference, it's always interesting.
[Title card] Cliché 4 - Do women ever apply?
[AB] I'm not going to groan - it's too predictable (rire).
[ES] I think there are very, very many who want to.
[Graphics] Isabelle Pont - Regional Operations Manager - Centre Val de Loire Region [IP] The proportion of women working at the very core of the safety profession is probably around 7 or 8%. That figure is slightly less in traction, and less again in maintenance and engineering, but things are changing.
[VB] The company now has an agreement on gender equality in place, the law has changed, there are women who have taken up jobs that are regarded as "technical"...
[KO] There's no need to be afraid. Women shouldn't feel that they don't have a legitimate role to play or that it's not the right place for them, either because they are female or because they don't have the expertise or experience to justify taking up a safety role.
[Graphics] Sophie Guillon - QSE Manager, Technicentre Quatre-Mares
[SG] When we're all together, it can be important to have a female view of professions that are certainly very much masculine in companies such as this.
[YB] Each one of us has something to bring to the table and can help make a contribution to safety. Nobody can progress in isolation - it's not possible. We all have a part to play.
[KO] Not knowing everything and asking questions are things that bring a lot to safety and to safety professions.
[IP] Our customers are both men and women. So, to meet our customers? needs, we need both men and women.
[Title card] So, are you convinced?
[YB] You need to be passionate, I mean...well, safety becomes part of who you are.
[IP] It's about being thorough, analytical - that's it. Not being hasty...
[VB] I think there are three key qualities: humility, the ability to listen, and openness.
[ES] We succeed overall when there is trust and mutual respect between our teams.
[SG] People are at the heart of safety.
[ES] For me, that's the key to success for a healthy, progressive organisation.
[YB] That requires commitment. You also need to enjoy the work, be curious, go out and get information. "But why are you doing that? What's the background to it?"
[SG] I feel useful in the sense that when I go home every evening, I have a certain satisfaction - I say "OK, today I was able to achieve something".
[VB] SNCF's current challenge in terms of safety is both simple and ambitious: zero fatal accidents, zero serious accidents.
[AB] Safety is an asset to us now, and will be in the future as we open up to competition.
[Title card] SNCF Sécurité - Safety is our priority.