Last month was Rail Safety Week where we were able to share some of the ways we are promoting rail safety education in schools around Cemex sites.

To support this work, Cemex works in partnership with Rail Safe Friendly, an organisation that brings schools and the rail industry together to raise rail safety awareness among school-aged children in the UK.  So far in 2024, Cemex’s Rail Safe Friendly project has reached over 4,000 young people across six schools around our operations, and overall, has reached 10,095 young people at nine schools.

Their ongoing programme, Learn Live, has reached over 19 million young people in 11,500 schools across the UK in partnership with the Trespass Improvement team at Network Rail. Learn Live delivers rail safety via live or on demand rail safety broadcasts using the Learn Live channel delivered digitally into the classroom or assembly halls.

We have received some amazing feedback from Chetwynd Junior School which you can watch here:  https://vimeo.com/876435491. You can also see some of the children’s artwork in the image.

As part of our partnership with Rail Safe Friendly you can nominate a school to receive rail safety education, or you can go online to download their resources to share with your local school. Please head over to  https://switchedonrailsafety.co.uk/ to find out more.