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Railway Safety in Estonia - 23 - Annual Report 2011
The main outlet of our railway safety promotion work
has bee the nation-wide project “Protect yourself and
Help Others” (KEAT) that is targeted at 6-graders from
local schools. In 2011 we had also an exiting cooperation
experience with Tallinn Arte High School where railway
safety presentations were made throughout a day to the
entire school.
Two years ago we started a joint project with the
Estonian Ministry of Defence for introducing safe traffic
rules to young recruits. Whilst discussing railway safety it
appears that almost each young soldier has been walking
on railway tracks and not only in spare time but also
while in military service. During military hikes a path that
is easy to walk is chosen and often it happens to be a
railway line. To date, we have made presentations to 640
recruits of Harju County who are now aware about the
dangers present on railway and are able to inform about
them also their fellow recruits. We are certain that this
project is worth continuing also in 2012.
In cooperation with OLE and OLEREX petrol stations we
started in the end of 2011 a new preventive traffic safety
project called “Let’s Save Lives” where we inform motor
vehicle drivers about their responsibilities both at railway
crossings and in traffic in general.
In the Northern Prefecture railway safety promotion work
is in the hands of the officers of the Regional Prevention
Service: Liina Soodla, Marina Aleksejeva and Kristel-Liis
Kaunismaa.
“Our cooperation with OLE has been excellent and we hope
that this positive experience will continue in the years to
come.”
Breathalysers produced as a result of
cooperation