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The UIC Fit for Freight webinars are designed to showcase best practices, highlight the daily use of UIC assets, and explain how UIC’s work contributes to the benefit of the rail sector. They also support railway professionals and newcomers in sharpening their expertise in all aspects of transport by rail while complying with legislation. These webinars are part of UIC global activities to support the rail sector in its development and roll-out of technical knowledge
Past Fit for Freight Events
Upcoming Events
10 June 2024 at 11:00-12:30 CEST
Quality & Safety Management
11:00 - 11:30 Quality & Safety: key principles and benefits for rail businesses?
- The frameworks and their prospect of convergence – quality management systems, common safety methods, …
11:30 - 12:10 Safety culture: a key to excellence?
- Real-life incident analysis and its implications
- Strategies for innovation in safety measures
12:10 - 12:30 UIC expertise
- Shaping quality & safety management
- UIC Quality Work Group – inviting stakeholders to join efforts
Expert speakers: Roland Rieder (BLS Cargo), Stefan Hackl (Rail Cargo Group), Philip Van den bosch (UIC)
12 June 2024 at 11:00-12:30 CEST
Audit Management
11:00 - 11:20 Audit management: how does it contribute to railway business?
- The frameworks and their prospect of convergence – quality, safety, sustainability
11:20 - 12:10 Joint sector programmes: fostering cooperation in overcoming challenges?
- UIC proof of concept – findings from the joint workshop quality and management system audit
- CEFIC case study – chemical industry’s Safety & Quality Assessment for Sustainability (SQAS) performance of logistics
- IATA case study – airline sector’s de-Icing / anti-Icing quality control pool (DAQCP)
12:10 - 12:30 UIC expertise
- Shaping quality & audit management
UIC Audit4All project – inviting stakeholders to join efforts
Expert speakers: Imre Elek (CEFIC), TBC (IATA), Stefan Hackl (Rail Cargo Group), Philip Van den bosch (UIC)
13 June 2024 at 11:00-12:30 CEST
Sustainability Reporting
11:00 - 11:30 ESG reporting: a global phenomenon, but does it make sense?
- The frameworks and their prospect of convergence – environment, social, governance
11:30 - 12:10 EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive: why is it state of the art?
- Double materiality
- Taxonomy
- Independent assurance
12:10 - 12:30 UIC expertise
- Navigating sustainability reporting challenges
- UIC Sustainability Unit & UIC Freight Quality Work Group – inviting stakeholders to join efforts
Expert speakers: Christine Vanoppen (Lineas), Lucie Anderton (UIC), Philip Van den bosch (UIC)