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Speakers Network
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Through the Thoroughbred Speakers Network, employees address community groups about the role Norfolk Southern and the rail industry play in the economy.
To schedule a speaker, send an email request to speaker@nscorp.com two months prior to the event. Include your name, contact information, type of event, time and date of event, and anticipated audience size. Only requests from within NS’ service territory can be considered.
NS’ formal volunteer program, the Thoroughbred Volunteers, offers employees a way to give back to their communities while serving as railroad ambassadors.
The Norfolk Southern Foundation supports educational, cultural, environmental, and human service organizations within NS’ service territory. The Foundation seeks to enhance the quality of life for NS employees and the livability of the communities we serve.
Visit www.nscorp.com/nsfoundation for guidelines.
Direct questions to katie.fletcher@nscorp.com or 757-629-2881.
NS enhances workplace safety by focusing on leading indicators of safety processes, such as employee attitudes, the quality of safety checkups, and job safety briefings.
In 2015, the Enola Diesel Shop became the first Norfolk Southern work group to achieve two million consecutive employee hours of reportable injury-free service.
NS promotes public safety through its “Train your Brain” safety outreach program. As campaign ambassador, Brainy makes public appearances urging motorists and pedestrians to be safe and smart around railroad tracks and crossings. Since its launch in 2007, the campaign has reached more than 800,000 people. Learn more at: www.TracksAreForTrains.com
In 2015, NS helped train more than 4,800 local emergency responders in 18 states to help their communities better prepare for potential incidents involving transport of hazardous materials.
NS launched Operation Awareness & Response in 2015 to inform and train local first responders. Learn more about OAR: http://www.joinNSOAR.com/
In 2015, NS completed its Trees and Trains project, a five-year, $5.6 million initiative to reforest 10,000 acres with more than six million native hardwoods and cottonwoods in the Mississippi Delta.
NS donated a conservation easement to permanently protect more than 12,400 acres at its Brosnan Forest property near Charleston, S.C.
Over five years, from 2010 through 2015, NS reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 8.5 percent per revenue ton-mile of freight.
NS introduced a new class of low-emission Eco locomotives, which were developed through NS’ unique rebuild program that recycles older locomotives and upgrades engines to maximize fuel economy and emissions reduction.
NS rolled out the “Sleeper,” a new plug-in engine-heating system that eliminates unnecessary locomotive idling and diesel emissions in cold weather.
NS has been an American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care partner since 1996 and led development of the rail industry third-party certification protocol.
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