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Agency Contractors
Question - Does the number of vehicles that a contractor uses to provide service affect the number of vehicles in service during peak hours and determine whether you are considered a small or large provider? Should the contractor vehicles be counted with the vehicles that your agency directly operates?
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Sub-contractors in ASP?
If fixed route and paratransit is provided by a contracted entity, does ASP also need to address sub-contracted companies such as security, janitorial, visiting personnel, etc. If so, do they need a separate section in the ASP?
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Describing the Modes of Transit
Should NTD terms be used to describe the Modes of Service in the following sections: Safety Performance Targets ; Transit Agency Information? Or is Paratransit and Fixed Bus acceptable like in the sample plan? Might be simple to many but I need clarification, help?
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MPO?
I am working on the portion where it asks to describe the coordination with the State and MPO the selection of the safety performance targets. We are a large bus transit agency. Who would the MPO be? We report data to the NTD. Would they be our MPO?
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Employee Safety Reporting Program
What method(s) does your agency use for employee safety reporting?
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Contractor Training
Will your agency require SMS training for contractors? If so, what will that training address?
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Safety Training
What kind of safety training courses are you requiring for personnel (including contractors) considered directly responsible for safety?
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Management of Change
How does your agency evaluate whether planned changes present safety concerns?
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Safety Performance Monitoring and Measurement
How does your agency know that your safety risk mitigations are working as intended?
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How to coordinate ASP and SSEPP
How does FTA anticipate the ASP working together with the System Security and Emergency Preparedness Program Plan (SSEPP)? Can we integrate the SSEPP into the ASP, essentially eliminating it as a document? Alternatively, can we separate safety from security functions and keep two distinct documents?
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Accountable Executive and Board of Directors Approval of State DOT plans
For State Departments of Transportation drafting Agency Safety Plans for small public transportation providers: How do you plan to work with the providers to ensure they get approval from the Accountable Executive and the Board of Directors or an Equivalent Authority?
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Agency Safety Plan Review
What agency departments or functions will participate in the review of your Agency Safety Plan?
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Vanpool clarification/assistance
It is my understanding that a vanpool operation that receives 5307 capital funding from the large urban provider is required to have a PTASP or participate in the large urban PTASP. What does that look like? Seems like it's overly burdensome to require a 3 staff agency with volunteer drivers to have something this extensive in place. Are there sample policies out there that are more simplified are more specific to a VP operation?
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Monitoring Safety Risk Mitigations
How will your agency monitor safety risk mitigations?
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Hazard Identification
Which activities and tools are you using for hazard identification? Who at your agency is responsible for this safety risk management step?
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Safety Performance Target Question
On February 4th, FTA hosted a webinar related to Safety Performance Targets. In the first couple of slides of the presentation, the presenter and the slide stated the fatality performance measure excludes suicides, trespassers, and natural causes. That statement is in conflict with the National Public Transportation Safety Plan footnote 8 which states, “The thresholds for "reportable" fatalities, injuries, and events are defined in the NTD Safety and Security Reporting Manual.”
In the NTD Safety and Security Reporting Manual, there is no exclusion to the fatality definition as stated in this webinar. Please advise if we should listen to the…3 votes
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