Across Hitachi Rail the priority remains constant: the health, safety and well-being of employees and Stakeholders. To navigate the challenges initiated by the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, company teams have worked to change operations, procedures, and safety measures to ensure the continuity of delivering to customers around the world
Discussing some of the new processes and solutions brought in across the global rail business, Ulderigo Zona Executive Officer of Hitachi Rail Safety, Health, Environment, Quality, said:
“The Covid-19 pandemic has severely tested the communities both at work and in personal lives. It happened so quickly, and the company had to act accordingly. I managed a central task force, which then managed an additional 13 localised task forces for core operating regions – we are a truly global brand and with the virus impacting different geographical regions at different times – consolidating our procedures and best-practice activity was the priority. However, as well as being a challenge, we saw this as an advantage. We have offices in Beijing and we are present in five continents, so the ability to receive information from all over the world was a decisive strength.”
“The commitment was initially aimed at prevention. First we understood that we could not continue to travel the world as we had done –we therefore began by stopping intercontinental travel, and then closing the links more at a local level, even before it was imposed by law. Each country continued to work with respect to social distancing and we limited the movement of people whilst ensuring business continuity for our global projects. Our role is to move people and goods globally so our businesses could not stop; as soon as it was safe to do so, we worked with our customers to ensure transport operations were not affected.”
What will be the area of intervention and the principal measures put in place?
Following the subscription of the “Protocollo nazionale per la realizzazione dei piani aziendali finalizzati all’attivazione di punti straordinari di vaccinazione anti SARS-CoV-2/ Covid-19 nei luoghi di lavoro”, Italian sites of the Hitachi Rail Group will be contributing to the reduction of Covid-19 spread by a campaign of vaccines through the utilization of a moving truck with 4 vaccine position. The Human centric mission that characterizes the core business has pushed the more forward looking management to organize a campaign that could answer to the occupational necessity of a group suche Hitachi Rail.
Hitachi Rail’s plan is not limited to the vaccine campaign, but it will continue after the vaccine rollout through a campaign of education amongst those who have received the shot on what norms and procedures to follow afterwards.