CFF in campaign against attacks on their staff

The SBB is launching a campaign “for respect and safety”, together with its social partners. From next week, slogans and visuals will be displayed on panels, ticket machines, screens in stations and on trains, in order to prevent attacks.

Every day, an average of ten verbal or physical attacks are committed against CFF staff, deplores the transport company on Monday in a press release. Some have gotten worse in recent years. This may involve insults, threats, insults or assault.

The feeling of security is “stable” and remains strong, but awareness is necessary, estimate the CFF, which describes the safety of its staff and customers as an “absolute priority”. “Each attack is too much.”

A signal

The “travel together with respect” campaign encourages users “to behave respectfully, with the aim of (…) promoting peaceful cohabitation”.

The operation aims to send a “signal”, underlined the former federal government to the media, at its new “Security Training” training center in Morat (FR). It is carried out in collaboration with the social partners which are the Personnel and Transport Union (SEV), the Locomotive Mechanics and Aspiring Union (VSLF) and Transfair.

The CFF, however, emphasizes “that travelers feel safer on trains and stations than in the rest of public spaces”, as regular surveys show. They nonetheless want to “take their responsibility seriously”.

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