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?

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

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?

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

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

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?

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?

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.

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

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

What methods does your agency use to communicate safety information to employees and contractors? How do you ensure employees and contractors have received the safety information?

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

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

What challenges did your agency come across during the Agency Safety Plan approval process and how did you handle them?

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?

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

What resources or guidance from FTA’s Technical Assistance Center have been the most helpful in supporting the development of your agency’s Agency Safety Plan?