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In light of the extraordinary challenges presented by the COVID-19 public health emergency, on December 11, 2020 FTA issued a second Notice of Enforcement Discretion for the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) regulation (49 CFR Part 673). FTA will refrain from taking enforcement action until July 21, 2021 for recipients and subrecipients unable to certify compliance with the PTASP regulation. Please visit FTA’s COVID-19 FAQs page for more information about the Notice.


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  1. Is the presence of human waste in transit station elevators reducing accessibility?

    Equipment, material selection and initial design will either limit or improve better management of the inevitable introduction of human waste inside transit station elevators. Nasty elevators present a denial of service and accessibility for disabled patrons. Routine equipment and approaches can't prevent, detect or address the problems created by this condition. Elevators are expensive, complex, unique and - without proper design and maintenance - will rapidly deteriorate and fail, resulting in premature replacement.

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  2. Can a non-front-line person be chosen as a committee member

    Can the President of the union be appointed to join the joint safety committee

    3 votes

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  3. Are transit agencies required to recertify our ASP in TrAMS each year after it receives Board Approval

    Are transit agencies required to recertify our ASP in TrAMS each year after it receives Board Approval

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  4. Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - How does the FTA define what "adequately trained" safety officer means?

    Bus Transit provider - who is reviewing the Bipartisan Law in order to make adjustments to the existing agency safety plan

    3 votes

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  5. Safety Hazard Identification and Safety Risk Assessment

    What sources for safety hazard identification did you include in your Agency Safety Plan?

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  6. 2 votes

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  7. ASP Modifications Due to COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

    Has your agency modified/amended its Agency Safety Plan to document any new activities or tools it has adopted in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency? If so, what modifications have you made?

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  8. 1 vote

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  9. Internal Safety Reporting Programs

    How do you monitor information reported through all of your internal safety reporting programs beyond just the Employee Safety Reporting Program?

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  10. COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Effect on ASP

    Due to impacts from the COVID-19 public health emergency, will you need to scale back certain areas of your ASP? If so, which areas?

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  11. Coordinating with Contractors for ASP Development

    If you coordinated with service or maintenance contractors while developing your Agency Safety Plan, what strategies did you use to make the process go smoothly?

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  12. ASP Development and the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

    How has the COVID-19 public health emergency affected your Agency Safety Plan development?

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  13. Monitoring Safety Risk Mitigations

    What tools do you use to keep track of safety risk mitigations so you can monitor the mitigations to see if they are effective, appropriate, and implemented as intended? Who, in your agency, is responsible for monitoring safety risk mitigations?

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  14. Second PTASP Notice of Enforcement

    In light of the extraordinary challenges presented by the COVID-19 public health emergency, on December 11, 2020 FTA issued a second Notice of Enforcement Discretion for the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) regulation (49 CFR Part 673). FTA will refrain from taking enforcement action until July 21, 2021 for recipients and subrecipients unable to certify compliance with the PTASP regulation. Please visit FTA’s COVID-19 FAQs page for more information about the Notice.

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  15. Safety Event Investigations

    During safety event investigations, how will your agency check for organizational factors that may have contributed to the event?

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  16. Safety Risk Management (Hazards vs. Consequences)

    What kind of guidance is your agency providing for safety staff to ensure that hazards identified during the Safety Risk Management process are hazards and not consequences?

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  17. Safety Risk Management (Hazard Identification)

    What is one takeaway from an FTA workshop, webinar, training or resource that helped you conduct hazard identification at your agency?

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  18. TAC ASP Review Feedback

    If your agency submitted a draft ASP to the TAC for review, what was the most valuable feedback you received?

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  19. Certification

    What types of challenges could potentially delay your agency’s certification of compliance with the PTASP regulation in TrAMS by the December 31 deadline?

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  20. Certification - With the deadline now being December 31,2020, does that now become our timeline for annual review and certification?

    Certification - With the deadline now being December 31,2020, does that now become our timeline for annual review and certification?

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