Thursday, February 11, 2016

NS recruits increase 200 people to safety – Telegraaf.nl

UTRECHT –

the NS will immediately recruit additional two hundred employees to increase safety in the train. The unions FNV and CNV and the NS have let out Thursday night. Displays NS concretely implement all previous agreements for double staffing in trains

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The commitment to begin now recruiting is the result of several discussions on measures to enhance the safety of railway staff. This happened following an incident last week Wednesday in Landgraaf where a guard was stabbed in the stomach.

The NS will deploy 140 additional principal conductors. All trains on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, a second principal conductor after 22:00. There will also be sixty employees Security & amp; service, which can be used as flying teams. They are used on other evenings and on trains and lines which shows that aggression is more common than average experience.

Secretary Sharon Dijksma (Infrastructure and Environment) pull-off 10 million euros extra to aggression in reduce public transport. The flex teams are co-funded by her ministry. Dijksma: ,, Drivers, conductors and other people working in the public transport do socially important and difficult work. Then there is only one motto for those people we all respect and you keep your hands off them ”

The unions are happy with the result.. Marjan Rintel of NS Passengers say they are convinced that this safety goes to a higher level. NS expects the additional people recruited in the course of next year, trained and deployed. The end of 2018, the measures to be assessed; an external research to measure the impacts

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