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Emergency Management

Emergency Preparedness Guide for Transit Employees on the Job and at Home

Prepared by the Federal Transit Administration and the National Transit Institute, this is a resource document for transit agencies. It provides suggested guidance for transit employees' emergency preparedness at home as...

Publications

Security and Emergency Preparedness Action Items for Transit Agencies - A Resource Document for Transit AgenciesTopic: SecurityDate: 2014Description: This document provides a list (and accompanying explanations) of the 17 Security & Emergency Management Action Items, updated to include cyber...

Recommended Fire Safety Practices for Rail Transit Materials Selection

Recommended Fire SafetyPractices for Rail TransitMaterials Selection

U. S. Departmentof TransportationFederal TransitAdministration

Office of Safety and SecurityWashington, DC 20590 Prepared byVolpe National Transportation Systems CenterKendall SquareCambridge, MA 02142-1093 August...

DOT’s 10 Steps to Collection Site Security and Integrity

DOT’s 10 Steps to Collection Site Security and IntegrityOffice of Drug and Alcohol Policy and Compliance U.S. Department of Transportation 

 

1. Pay careful attention to employees throughout the collection process.

2. Ensure that there is no unauthorized access...

Recommended Emergency Preparedness Guidelines for Rail Transit Systems

Recommended Emergency Preparedness Guidelines for Rail Transit Systems

1. Report No.UMTA-MA-06-0152-85-1 2. Government Accession No. 3. Recipient's Catalog No.4. Title and SubtitleRECOMMENDED EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GUIDELINES FOR RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEMS 5. Report DateMarch 19856. Performing...

State Safety Oversight Program - Rail Transit Agency Safety Contacts

Last Updated: March 2010

Bay Area Rapid Transit DistrictLen HardyChief Safety Officer300 Lakeside Drive, 18th FloorOakland, CA 94612Phone: 510-874-7426Fax: 510-464-7552lhardy@bart.govCambria County Transit AuthorityJames ParksDirector Operations and Risk Management726 Central...

Rail Transit Safety Newsletters

Summer, 2009

Oversight of Rail Transit Agency Track InspectionsEffective Oversight of RTA Track Inspection Processes - A Case Study of the Chicago Transit Authority

Spring, 2009

Mike Flanigon, FTA Director, Office of Safety and SecurityOversight of Rail Transit Agency Rule...

Program Oversight

FTA is responsible for conducting oversight activities to ensure that recipients of grants use the funds in a manner consistent with their intended purpose and in compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements. A number of oversight review programs exist to accomplish this goal

Bus Transit Safety Quarterly Newsletter - August 2008

Transit Bus SafetyQuarterly Newsletter

FTA Transit Bus Safetyand Security ProgramProgram Overview

As FTA Administrator James S. Simpson stated in his 2006 Dear Colleague letter, FTA has taken a “fresh approach” to developing its Transit Bus Safety and Security...