PTASP Technical Assistance Forum
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Safety Communication
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?
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Agency Safety Plan Approval Process
What challenges did your agency come across during the Agency Safety Plan approval process and how did you handle them?
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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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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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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 -
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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Employee Safety Reporting Program
What method(s) does your agency use for employee safety reporting?
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