Thursday, September 26, 2024
| | Today, FTA issued a General Directive to protect our nation's frontline transit workers from assaults. General Directive 24-1: Required Actions Regarding Assaults on Transit Workers will require more than 700 transit agencies nationwide to take action and address ongoing incidents of assaults on transit workers. The directive reflects FTA's commitment to the safety of transit workers and the need to address at the federal level the problem of verbal and physical assaults they face while at work. Assaults have increased more than 120 percent between 2013 and 2021. The General Directive requires all transit agencies subject to FTA's Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans (PTASP) regulation to complete a safety risk assessment. They are required to assess the risk of assaults on their workers using the Safety Management System processes outlined in their agency safety plans. The directive, a significant and necessary next step in FTA's efforts to better protect frontline transit workers, requires transit agencies to: - Assess the risk of assaults on the agency's transit workforce using the Safety Management System (SMS) processes outlined in its Agency Safety Plan (ASP).
- Conduct a safety risk assessment related to assaults on transit workers. If a transit agency's safety risk assessment shows an unacceptable level of risk of assaults on transit workers, they must identify strategies to mitigate that risk and improve transit worker safety.
- If a transit agency's safety risk assessment shows an unacceptable level of risk of assaults on transit workers, they must identify strategies to mitigate that risk and improve transit worker safety.
- For transit agencies serving large urbanized areas (with populations of 200,000 or more), they must comply with PTASP requirements to involve the joint labor-management Safety Committee when identifying safety risk mitigations and strategies.
- Provide information to FTA within 90 days on how they are assessing, mitigating, and monitoring the safety risk associated with assaults on transit workers.
This information will help FTA understand how transit worker assault safety risk assessments and safety risk mitigations vary throughout the industry, informing the agency of further activities that may be effective in reducing the risk of assaults on transit workers. | | | | |
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