DOT’s Federal Transit Administration Issues General Directive to Protect Nation’s Frontline Transit Workers from Assault

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. (City of Las Cruces Photo: Courtesy)

Source: USDOT Federal Transit Administration

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.

Subscribe to the Daily Las Cruces Digest

* indicates required

Email Address *

First Name *How would you like to be addressed in personalized emails?

/* real people should not fill this in and expect good things – do not remove this or risk form bot signups */

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.

Links:
Federal Register Notice: General Directive 24-1: Required Actions Regarding Assaults on Transit Workers
FTA Press Release
General Directive 24-1: Required Actions Regarding Assaults on Transit Workers
Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans (PTASP) Regulation
PTASP Website

Article posted by:

Levi Gwaltney

Levi Gwaltney is the Editor In Chief of Las Cruces Digest. The Editor makes editorial and posting decisions regarding content published on this site. In most cases, the Editor makes little if any contribution to content published, and takes no credit for the content of republished posts. If available, the source or author of posts is provided at the top of the article.

Vamos a chismear…

• Facebook
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• Mail
• Print

• December 21, 2024
  

  TTB Establishes ‘American Single Malt Whisky’ Standard of Identity

• December 23, 2024
  

  NMSU Alum Diego Pavia Lights the Way For Future Student Athletes–Read the Entire Court Ruling Here

BACK

---