PTASP Technical Assistance Forum
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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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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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ASP Development
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?
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ASP Development
Which part of Agency Safety Plan development did your agency find the most challenging, and how did you overcome that challenge?
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Internal Safety Reporting Program
What kinds of internal safety reporting programs are you using to monitor compliance information, such as for analysis and trending?
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Compliance Monitoring
How do your agency’s compliance monitoring activities help you determine the effectiveness of safety risk mitigations?
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Fall Virtual PTASP Workshops
Due to significant interest following the August workshops, FTA will host two more virtual Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Bus Workshops this fall. These two-day workshops will take place on September 29–30 and October 13–14, 2020. Each workshop will focus on the PTASP regulation requirements and provide strategies for completing an Agency Safety Plan (ASP) by the December 31, 2020 deadline.
Register for Workshop 1: September 29–30, 11:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time: https://bit.ly/2FFKmc1
Register for Workshop 2: October 13–14, 11:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time: https://bit.ly/33EnD89
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Compliance Monitoring
What are some of the activities your agency uses to monitor compliance with its maintenance procedures?
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Compliance Monitoring
What are some of the activities your agency uses to monitor compliance with its operations procedures?
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New TAC Resources Available
FTA has added five new resources to the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Resource Library (https://bit.ly/2EQI0pY) to assist transit agencies in developing their Agency Safety Plans:
1. The Safety Performance Targets Fact Sheet (https://bit.ly/3bj0LhZ) contains guidance on how to determine Safety Performance Targets (SPTs).
2. Certifying Compliance with the PTASP Regulation (https://bit.ly/3gJk0SU) discusses what certification means and who must certify, and reviews the who, when, and how of certifying compliance with the PTASP regulation.
3. The Certification Fact Sheet (https://bit.ly/2YTxeqf) explains who must certify and the certification process in the Transit…0 votes -
Continuous Improvement
Who will be responsible for assessing your agency’s safety performance and the effectiveness of your SMS? Will you use outside expertise?
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Management of Change
How does your agency document changes to your service operations?
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Continuous Improvement
What methods will you use to assess your safety performance and the effectiveness of your SMS?
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Management of Change
What criteria do you use to determine whether identified changes need to be evaluated through your safety risk management process?
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Management of change
Who in your agency (or what department) is involved in deciding whether a planned change needs to be assessed for safety risk?
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System Reliability
If you are a small public transportation provider that does not report mechanical failures to the NTD (Reduced Reporter), what data sources are you using to set your system reliability target?
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Safety Promotion
What methods of communication does your agency use to announce safety concerns?
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ASP Development Progress and COVID-19
Has the COVID-19 public health emergency affected the contents of your Agency Safety Plan, and if so, how?
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Bus Contractor's Existing SSPP?
Question: Our agency contracts our bus and paratransit service operations and maintenance to a contractor, and that contractor has an existing System Safety Program Plan (SSPP). Since our agency is the recipient of the FTA funds (not the contractor), can the contractor keep their existing SSPP, and can our new ASP cite/reference sections of the contractor's SSPP?
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