At SNCF Group, safety is a top priority—right alongside on-time performance and passenger information. Our Group Procurement Department leads the charge, actively embedding supplier quality and safety standards into our daily operations to ensure continuous performance improvements and customer satisfaction. As the guardian of supplier standards, the department ensures every partner meets rigorous quality and safety practices.

To that end, SNCF Group is committed to working closely with its external partners—listening, supporting and helping them grow and improve.

At SNCF, safety isn’t just our priority—it’s our foundation. Thanks to PRISME, our flagship safety initiative, the number of serious incidents has been cut in half since 2015. But even one incident is too many, since every statistic represents a real person, be they SNCF employees or external partners. Because any safety incident is unacceptable, SNCF has launched the Tous Partenaires en Sécurité (We’re All Partners in Security) programme.

While our partner companies are responsible for their teams, SNCF aims to foster a shared safety culture that ensures everyone, on every worksite, stays healthy and safe.

Our objective? To collaborate with contracting firms working on our premises and implement concrete actions so their teams adopt SNCF’s proven safety rules, processes and standards.

From now on, safety criteria will carry more weight in our tender evaluations and contract awards.

We will also monitor the safety records of contractor firms operating on SNCF sites even more closely. This, in turn, will enable us identify risks early, and strengthen partner companies’ safety culture.

To minimize the risk of serious or fatal incidents, contractor teams at our sites must be able to assess risks and apply effective prevention, just as our own employees do. To help these external partners adopt SNCF’s safety culture, they now systematically take part in our risk prevention and analysis programmes, and are encouraged to embrace SNCF’s safety rituals, best practices and expertise. We all stay safer when we learn from and watch out for each other: that’s the message SNCF wants to hammer home.

This approach is outlined in our We’re All Partners in Security programme and formalized in a joint charter between SNCF Group and external partners. The charter reaffirms the safety principles that govern all operations carried out by SNCF and its external partners, and reiterates their joint commitment.

It ensures that effective measures are implemented to protect teams working on every SNCF site.