As one of the largest employers in Switzerland, SBB is responsible for around 35,000 employees. To maintain their health and well-being, it implements integrated health management. SBB promotes the health competence of its employees, amongst other things, with regard to the advancing digitalisation and with a special focus on mental health. It also creates working conditions which promote good health, especially for older employees and those with health problems.

SBB trains apprentices throughout Switzerland and provides a wide range of internal training opportunities for its staff. In this way, it preserves and further develops the specialised railway know-how of its employees. SBB also enables its employees to acquire the necessary skills to master the changes brought about by digitalisation.

SBB promotes returning to work and a healthy work-life balance.

The company is increasing the proportion of women employed at all levels. Independent surveys regularly certify SBBs wage equality in terms of gender, age and nationality.

SBB is the largest electricity consumer in Switzerland. Due to the expansion of rail services, its energy demand will continue to grow in the coming years. SBB is therefore committed to the careful use of energy, doing so by saving energy, increasing energy efficiency and increasing the share of renewable energy in the electricity it consumes. The company also plans to generate more electricity and heat using renewable sources of energy.

Many SBB employees work in a challenging environment. Consistently ensuring safety at work does not just mean complying with legal requirements. At SBB, it is also a core attitude and a management responsibility at all levels of the company. To this end, SBB is continuously developing its fundamental culture of safety and quality. The collective labour agreements for SBB and SBB Cargo ensure modern working and employment conditions for all employees over the long term.

As one of the largest providers of external contracts in Switzerland, SBB works together with thousands of suppliers. In doing so, it strives to limit the negative impact of the supply chain on the environment. Moreover, SBB takes care to prevent labour and human rights violations in its supply chain.

SBB plans to remain the most environmentally friendly mobility provider in Switzerland. The company operates and maintains a reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure portfolio;its facilities, buildings and vehicles are modernised and retrofitted to make them even cleaner and more environmentally friendly. It contributes towards the modal shift to rail.

SBB invests in innovation, develops new mobility services and promotes international traffic.

SBB also treats its client data with the utmost care and protects its IT infrastructure from cyber attacks.

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SBB employs people from all sorts of different backgrounds. It promotes equal opportunity regardless of language, sex or gender identity, age, sexual orientation, origin or religion. Racism or discrimination of any kind is not tolerated at SBB. SBB also fosters diversity within its teams and in its management positions – for instance, in terms of the distribution of speakers of the national languages – and establishes an inclusive corporate culture.

For people with reduced mobility or sensory impairments, rail travel is associated with numerous physical and digital hurdles. SBB makes its digital service as accessible as possible for people with disabilities and makes it possible for them to use public transport autonomously. In doing so, the company makes a major contribution to enabling people with disabilities to participate in public life.

SBB shape Switzerland through its transport and real estate operations. It is developing stations and nearby areas into mobility hubs and urban areas. In doing so, the company is creating safe, affordable and sustainable transport systems, as well as spaces to work and live. It plans and builds its office and residential buildings according to strict sustainability standards and endeavours to reuse materials. In doing so, SBB facilitates the interplay between residential and commercial space and ensures Switzerland’s attractiveness as a place to live and work.

SBB is one of the largest clients in Switzerland. Along the entire value chain, SBB considers not only economic, but also social and ecological, criteria.

SBB advocates for the circular economy when considering its procurement and investment decisions. The company ensures the efficient use of natural resources, minimises its consumption of resources, uses recyclable materials and is increasing the rate at which materials are recycled.

SBB is reducing the amount of waste in its operations and the amount of plastic used by staff.

The current modal shift to rail is preventing around 10% of Switzerland’s total emissions. In this way, SBB is making a significant contribution to climate protection in Switzerland. One of SBB’s corporate goals is to reduce its own CO₂ emissions in accordance with scientific guidelines.

SBB is also increasing its resilience and adaptability with respect to climate-related hazards and natural disasters and is proactively adapting to the impacts of climate change.

As Switzerland’s second-largest landowner, SBB contributes significantly to urban sprawl. However, SBB also manages a green corridor along the tracks and takes compensatory measures in the context of construction projects. It also protects and restores ecosystems to promote biodiversity and preserve habitats for protected and endangered animal and plant species.