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| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.1.1.1 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | A | Subpart A—General | § 671.1 Purpose and Applicability. | FTA | (a) The purpose of this part is to set forth the applicability of the rail transit Roadway Worker Protection (RWP) regulation. (b) This part applies to rail transit agencies (RTA) that receive Federal financial assistance authorized under 49 U.S.C. chapter 53; and to State Safety Oversight Agencies (SSOA) that oversee the safety of rail fixed guideway public transportation systems. This part does not apply to rail systems that are subject to the safety oversight of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). (c) This part applies to transit workers who access any rail fixed guideway public transportation systems in the performance of work. (d) An RTA must coordinate with an SSOA to establish an SSOA-approved RWP program that meets the requirements of this part, within one calendar year from the effective date of this rule. | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.1.1.2 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | A | Subpart A—General | § 671.3 Policy. | FTA | (a) This part establishes minimum safety standards for rail transit Roadway Worker Protection (RWP) to ensure the safe operation of public transportation systems and to prevent safety events, fatalities, and injuries to transit workers who may access the roadway in the performance of work. Each RTA and SSOA may prescribe additional or more stringent operating rules, safety rules, and other special instructions that are consistent with this part. (b) The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has adopted the principles and methods of Safety Management Systems (SMS) as the basis for enhancing the safety of public transportation in the United States. Activities conducted to carry out these RWP safety standards must be integrated into the RTA's SMS, including the Safety Risk Management (SRM) process, specified in § 673.25 of this chapter, and the Safety Assurance process, specified in § 673.27 of this chapter. | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.1.1.3 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | A | Subpart A—General | § 671.5 Definitions. | FTA | As used in this part: Accountable Executive means a single identifiable person who has ultimate responsibility for carrying out the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan of a transit agency; responsibility for carrying out the transit agency's Transit Asset Management Plan; and control or direction over the human and capital resources needed to develop and maintain both the transit agency's Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan, in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 5329(d), and the transit agency's Transit Asset Management Plan in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 5326. Ample time means the time necessary for a roadway worker to be clear of the track zone or in a place of safety 15 seconds before a rail transit vehicle moving at the maximum authorized speed on that track could arrive at the location of the roadway worker. Equivalent entity means an entity that carries out duties similar to that of a Board of Directors, for a recipient or subrecipient of FTA funds under 49 U.S.C. chapter 53, including sufficient authority to review and approve a recipient or subrecipient's Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan. Equivalent protection means alternative designs, materials, or methods that the RTA can demonstrate to the SSOA will provide equal or greater safety for roadway workers than the means specified in this part. Flag person means a roadway worker designated to direct or restrict the movement of rail transit vehicles or equipment past a point on a track to provide on-track safety for roadway workers, while engaged solely in performing that function. Foul time protection is a method of establishing working limits in which a roadway worker is notified by the control center that no rail transit vehicles will be authorized to operate within a specific segment of track until the roadway worker reports clear of the track. Fouling a track means the placement of an individual or an item of equipment in such proximity to a track that the individual or equipment could be struck by a moving rail transit vehicle or o… | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.2.1.1 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | B | Subpart B—Roadway Worker Protection (RWP) Program and Manual | § 671.11 RWP program. | FTA | (a) Each RTA must adopt and implement an approved RWP program to improve transit worker safety that is consistent with Federal and State safety requirements and meets the minimum requirements of this part. (b) The RWP program must include: (1) An RWP manual as described in § 671.13; and (2) All of the RWP program elements described in Subpart D of this part. (c) Each RTA must submit its RWP manual and subsequent updates to its SSOA for review and approval as described in § 671.25. | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.2.1.2 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | B | Subpart B—Roadway Worker Protection (RWP) Program and Manual | § 671.13 RWP manual. | FTA | (a) Each RTA must establish and maintain a separate, dedicated manual documenting its RWP program. (b) The RWP manual must include the terminology, abbreviations, and acronyms used to describe the RWP program activities and requirements. (c) The RWP manual must document: (1) All elements of the RWP program in Subpart D of this part. (2) A definition of RTA and transit worker responsibilities as described in Subpart C—Responsibilities. (3) Training, qualification, and supervision required for transit workers to access the track zone, by labor category or type of work performed. (4) Processes and procedures, including any use of roadway workers to provide adequate on-track safety, for all transit workers who may access the track zone in the performance of their work, including safety and oversight personnel. Procedures for SSOA personnel to access the roadway must conform with the SSOA's risk-based inspection program. (d) The RWP manual must include or incorporate by reference a track access guide to support on-track safety. The track access guide must be based on a physical survey of the track geometry and condition of the transit system and include, at a minimum: (1) Locations with limited, close, or no clearance, including locations (such as alcoves, recessed spaces, or other designated places or areas of refuge or safety) with size or access limitations. (2) Locations subject to increased rail vehicle or on-track equipment braking requirements or reduced rail transit vehicle operator visibility due to precipitation or other weather conditions. (3) Curves with no or limited visibility. (4) Locations with limited or no visibility due to obstructions or topography. (5) All portals with restricted views. (6) Locations with heavy outside noise or other environmental conditions that impact on-track safety. (7) Any other locations with access considerations. (e) Following initial approval of the RWP manual by its SSOA, not less than every two years, the RTA must review and update its RWP manual to refle… | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.3.1.1 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | C | Subpart C—Responsibilities | § 671.21 Rail transit agency. | FTA | (a) In General. Each RTA must establish procedures to: (1) Provide ample time and determine the appropriate sight distance based on maximum authorized track speeds. (2) Ensure that individual rail transit vehicle detection is never used as the only form of protection in the track zone. (3) Provide job safety briefings to all transit workers who must enter a track zone to perform work. (4) Provide job safety briefings to all transit workers whenever a rule violation is observed. (5) Provide transit workers with the right to challenge and refuse in good faith any assignment based on on-track safety concerns and resolve such challenges and refusals promptly and equitably. (6) Require the reporting of unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, and near-misses on the roadway as part of the Transit Worker Safety Reporting Program and described in § 673.23(b) of this chapter. (7) Ensure all transit workers who must enter a track zone to perform work understand, are qualified in, and comply with the RWP program. (8) Provide an escort, as needed, to support individuals that are not RWP certified and do not fall into the categories of roadway worker, transit worker, or emergency personnel if they must enter a track zone. (b) Equipment and protections. Each RTA must establish the requirements for on-track safety, including: (1) Equipment that transit workers must have to access the roadway or a track zone by labor category, including personal protective equipment such as high-reflection vests, safety shoes, and hard hats. (2) Credentials ( e.g., badge, wristband, RWP card) for transit workers to enter the roadway or track zone by labor category and how to display them so they are visible. (3) Protections for emergency response personnel who must access the roadway or the track zone. (4) Protections for multiple roadway work groups within a common work area in a track zone. | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.3.1.2 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | C | Subpart C—Responsibilities | § 671.23 Transit worker. | FTA | (a) RWP program. Each transit worker must follow the requirements of the RTA's RWP program by position and labor category. (b) Fouling the track. A transit worker may only foul the track once they have received appropriate permissions and redundant protections have been established as specified in the RWP manual. (c) Acknowledgement of protections providing on-track safety. A transit worker must understand and acknowledge in writing the protections providing on-track safety measures for their specific task before accessing the roadway or track zone. (d) Refusal to foul the track. A transit worker may refuse to foul the track if the transit worker makes a good faith determination that that they believe any assignment is unsafe or would violate the RTA's RWP program. (e) Reporting. A transit worker must report unsafe acts and conditions and near-misses related to the RWP program as part of the RTA's Transit Worker Safety Reporting Program. | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.3.1.3 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | C | Subpart C—Responsibilities | § 671.25 State safety oversight agency. | FTA | (a) Review and approve RWP program elements. The SSOA must review and approve the RWP manual and any subsequent updates for each RTA within its jurisdiction: (1) The SSOA must coordinate with the RTA on the initial review and approval of the RWP program elements so that the RWP program is established and approved within one calendar year from December 2, 2024, and (2) The SSOA also must submit all approved RWP program elements for each RTA in its jurisdiction, and any subsequent updates, to FTA within 30 calendar days of approving them. (b) RWP program oversight. The SSOA must update its program standard to explain the role of the SSOA in overseeing an RTA's execution of its RWP program. (c) Annual RWP program audit. (1) The SSOA must conduct an annual audit of the RTA's compliance with its RWP program, including all required RWP program elements, for each RTA that it oversees. (2) The SSOA must issue a report with any findings and recommendations arising from the audit, which must include, at minimum: (i) An analysis of the effectiveness of the RWP program, including, at a minimum, a review of: (A) All RWP-related events over the period covered by the audit; (B) All RWP-related reports made to the Transit Worker Safety Reporting Program over the period covered by the audit; (C) All documentation of instances where a transit worker(s) challenged and refused in good faith any assignment based on on-track safety concerns and documentation of the resolution for any such instance during the period covered by the audit; (D) An assessment of the adequacy of the track access guide, including whether the guide reflects current track geometry and conditions; (E) A review of training and qualification records for transit workers who must enter a track zone to perform work; (F) A representative sample of written job safety briefing confirmations as described in § 671.33; and (G) The compliance monitoring program described in § 671.43. (ii) Recommendations for improvements, if necessary or appropriate. (… | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.4.1.1 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | D | Subpart D—Required RWP Program Elements | § 671.31 Roadway worker in charge requirements. | FTA | (a) On-track safety and supervision. The RTA must designate one roadway worker in charge for each roadway work group whose duties require fouling a track. (1) The roadway worker in charge must be qualified under the RTA's training and qualification program as specified in § 671.41. (2) The roadway worker in charge may be designated generally or may be designated specifically for a particular work situation. (3) The roadway worker in charge is responsible for the on-track safety for all members of the roadway work group. (4) The roadway worker in charge must serve only the function of maintaining on-track safety for all members of the roadway work group and perform no other unrelated job function while designated for duty. (5) For multiple roadway work groups within common working limits, the RTA may designate a single roadway worker in charge for the entire working limit. If a single roadway worker in charge is designated over multiple roadway work groups within a working limit, each work group must be accompanied by an employee qualified to the level of a roadway worker in charge, as specified in § 671.41, who shall be responsible for direct communication with the roadway worker in charge. (b) Communication. The RTA must ensure that the roadway worker in charge provides a job safety briefing to all roadway workers before any member of a roadway work group fouls a track, following the requirements specified in § 671.33. (1) The roadway worker in charge must provide a job safety briefing to all members of the roadway work group before any on-track safety procedures change during the work period, whenever on-track safety conditions change, or immediately following an observed violation of on-track safety procedures, before work in the track zone may continue. (2) In the event of an emergency, the roadway worker in charge must warn each roadway worker to immediately leave the roadway and not return until on-track safety is re-established, and a job safety briefing is completed. | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.4.1.2 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | D | Subpart D—Required RWP Program Elements | § 671.33 Job safety briefing policies. | FTA | (a) General. The RTA must ensure the roadway worker in charge provides any roadway worker who must foul a track with a job safety briefing prior to fouling the track, every time the roadway worker fouls the track. (b) Elements. The job safety briefing must include, at a minimum, the following, as appropriate: (1) A discussion of the nature of the work to be performed and the characteristics of the work, including work plans for multiple roadway worker groups within a single work area; (2) Working limits; (3) The hazards involved in performing the work. For RTAs with electrified systems, this discussion must include the status of power and hazards explicitly related to the electrified system; (4) Information on how on-track safety is to be provided for each track identified to be fouled; identification and location of key personnel, such as a watchperson and the roadway worker in charge; and information on what should be done in the event of an emergency; (5) Instructions for each on-track safety procedure to be followed, including appropriate flags and proper flag placement; (6) Communication roles and responsibilities for all transit workers involved in the work; (7) Safety information about any adjacent track, defined as track next to or adjoining the track zone where on-track safety has been established, and identification of roadway maintenance machines or on-track equipment that will foul such tracks; (8) Information on the accessibility of the roadway worker in charge, including emergency contact information, and alternative procedures in the event the roadway worker in charge is no longer accessible to members of the roadway work group; (9) Required personal protective equipment; (10) Designated place(s) of safety of a sufficient size to accommodate all roadway workers within the work area; and (11) The means for determining ample time. (c) Confirmation and written acknowledgement. A job safety briefing is complete only after: (1) The roadway worker in charge confirms that each roadway … | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.4.1.3 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | D | Subpart D—Required RWP Program Elements | § 671.35 Lone worker. | FTA | (a) On-track safety and supervision. The RTA may authorize lone workers to perform limited duties that require fouling a track. (1) The lone worker must be qualified as a roadway worker in charge and lone worker under the RTA's training and qualification program as specified in § 671.41. (2) The lone worker may perform routine inspection or minor tasks and move from one location to another. The lone worker may not use power tools and may only access locations have defined in the track access guide as appropriate for lone workers, i.e., no loud noises, no restricted clearances, etc. (3) The lone worker may not use individual rail transit vehicle detection, where the lone worker is solely responsible for seeing approaching trains and clearing the track before the trains arrive, as the only form of on-track safety. (b) Communication. Each lone worker must communicate prior to fouling the track with a supervisor or another designated employee to receive an on-track safety job briefing consisting of the elements in § 671.33(b), including a discussion of their planned work activities and the procedures that they intend to use to establish on-track safety. The lone worker must acknowledge and document the job safety briefing in writing consistent with § 671.33(c). | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.4.1.4 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | D | Subpart D—Required RWP Program Elements | § 671.37 Good faith safety challenge. | FTA | (a) Written procedure. Each RTA must document its procedures that provide to every roadway worker the right to challenge and refuse in good faith any assignment they believe is unsafe or would violate the RTA's RWP program. (b) Prompt and equitable resolution. The written procedure must include methods or processes to achieve prompt and equitable resolution of any challenges and refusals made. (c) Requirements. The written procedure must include a requirement that the roadway worker provide a description of the safety concern regarding on-track safety and that the roadway work group must remain clear of the roadway or track zone until the challenge and refusal is resolved. | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.4.1.5 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | D | Subpart D—Required RWP Program Elements | § 671.39 Risk-based redundant protections. | FTA | (a) General requirements. (1) Each RTA must identify and provide redundant protections for each category of work roadway workers perform on the roadway or track. (2) Each RTA must establish redundant protections to ensure on-track safety for multiple roadway work groups within a common work area. (b) Safety risk assessment to determine redundant protections. Each RTA must assess the risk associated with transit workers accessing the roadway using the methods and processes established under § 673.25(c) of this chapter. The RTA must use the methods and processes established under § 673.25(d) of this chapter to establish redundant protections for each category of work performed by roadway workers on the rail transit system and must include lone workers. (1) The safety risk assessment must be consistent with the RTA's Agency Safety Plan (ASP) and the SSOA's program standard. (2) The safety risk assessment may be supplemented by engineering assessments, inputs from the safety assurance process established under § 673.27 of this chapter, the results of safety event investigations, and other SRM strategies or approaches. (3) The RTA must review and update the safety risk assessment at least every two years to include current conditions and lessons learned from safety events, actions taken to address reports of unsafe acts and conditions, and near-misses, and results from compliance monitoring regarding the effectiveness of the redundant protections. (4) The SSOA may also identify and require the RTA to implement alternate redundant protections based on the RTA's unique operating characteristics and capabilities. (c) Categories of work requiring redundant protections. Redundant protections must be identified for roadway workers performing different categories of work on the roadway and within track zones, which may include but are not limited to categories such as: (1) Roadway workers moving from one track zone location to another; (2) Roadway workers performing minor tasks; (3) Roadway workers conducting… | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.4.1.6 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | D | Subpart D—Required RWP Program Elements | § 671.41 RWP training and qualification program. | FTA | (a) General. Each RTA must adopt an RWP training program. (1) The RWP training program must address all transit workers responsible for on-track safety, by position, including roadway workers, operations control center personnel, rail transit vehicle operators, operators of on-track equipment and roadway maintenance machines, and any others with a role in providing on-track safety or fouling a track for the performance of work. (2) The RWP training program must be completed for the relevant position before an RTA may assign a transit worker to perform the duties of a roadway worker, to oversee or supervise access to the track zone from the operations control center, or to operate vehicles, on-track equipment, and roadway maintenance machines on the rail transit system. (3) The RWP training program must address RWP hazard recognition and mitigation, and lessons learned through the results of compliance testing, near-miss reports, reports of unsafe acts or conditions, and feedback received on the training program. (4) The RWP training program must include initial and refresher training, by position. Refresher training must occur every two years at a minimum. (5) The RTA must review and update its RWP training program not less than every two years, to reflect lessons learned in implementing the RWP program and information provided by the SSOA and FTA. The RTA must provide an opportunity for roadway worker involvement in the RWP training program review and update process. (b) Required elements. The RWP training program must include interactive training with the opportunity to ask the RWP trainer questions and raise and discuss RWP issues. (1) Initial training must include experience in a representative field setting. (2) Initial and refresher training must include demonstrations and assessments to ensure the ability to comply with RWP instructions given by transit workers performing, or responsible for, on-track safety and RWP functions. (c) Minimum contents for RWP training. The RWP training program m… | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.4.1.7 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | D | Subpart D—Required RWP Program Elements | § 671.43 RWP compliance monitoring program. | FTA | (a) General. Each RTA must adopt a program for monitoring its compliance with the requirements specified in its RWP program. (b) Required elements. The RWP compliance monitoring program must include inspections, observations, and audits, consistent with safety performance monitoring and measurement requirements in the RTA's ASP described in § 673.27(b) of this chapter and the SSOA's program standard. (1) The RTA must provide quarterly reports to the SSOA documenting the RTA's compliance with and sufficiency of the RWP program. (2) The RTA must provide an annual briefing to the Accountable Executive and the Board of Directors, or equivalent entity, regarding the performance of the RWP program and any identified deficiencies requiring corrective action. | |||||
| 49:49:7.1.2.1.23.5.1.1 | 49 | Transportation | VI | 671 | PART 671—RAIL TRANSIT ROADWAY WORKER PROTECTION | E | Subpart E—Recordkeeping | § 671.51 Recordkeeping. | FTA | (a) Each RTA must maintain the documents that set forth its RWP program; documents related to the implementation of the RWP program; and results from the procedures, processes, assessments, training, and activities specified in this part for the RWP program. (b) Each RTA must maintain records of its compliance with this requirement, including records of transit worker RWP training and refresher training, for a minimum of three years after they are created. (c) These documents must be made available upon request by the FTA or other Federal entity, or an SSOA having jurisdiction. |
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