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Training - General Transit
Safety Courses
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Length: 2 days
Materials Fee: $40
Course
Overview
This course is intended to promote understanding and implementation of the system safety concept: people, procedures, facilities, and environment. It studies organizational relationships, including coordination across functions and departments, and the impact on the safety department. The steps necessary in development and implementation of a system safety program plan, using both engineering and behavioral safety approaches are demonstrated.
Course
Elements
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Definition of safety, system safety, benefits of safety, safety tools
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Introduction to safety engineering, elements of a system, system life cycle, hazard identification, hazard analysis, hazard resolution
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System safety as a management process, responsibilities and requirements, configuration management, root cause, accident/incident fact-finding, behavioral safety, integration of safety strategies
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Organizational activities applied to developing a System Safety Program Plan
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Documenting the System Safety Program, format, requirements, safety-related unit activities, promotion of the System Safety Program Plan
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Group exercises: Focus on application of the steps used in developing a System Safety Program Plan for transportation operations
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Pretest, final exam
Who Should
Attend
| SSPP Developers |
SSPP Administrators |
SSPP Implementers |
| Transit Executive Managers |
Safety Directors |
Safety Supervisors |
| Risk Managers |
Procurement Specialists |
Engineers |
| Operations Managers |
Operations Supervisors |
Facility Managers |
| Safety Auditors |
Federal Safety Personnel |
State Safety Personnel |
| Procurement Personnel |
Corrective Action Personnel |
Transit Safety Consultants |
| Equip. Maintenance Managers |
SSO Personnel |
Design Personnel |
| Equip. Maint. Supervisors |
Safety Technology Vendors |
Construction Personnel |
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Length: 2-1/2 days
Materials Fee: $40
Professional Development Hours: 14.5
Course
Overview
This course is designed to provide the participant with the knowledge to evaluate and self assess their agency’s substance abuse program and its compliance with FTA regulations. The course involves lecture, group discussions, and peer information sharing. This course promotes a better understanding of FTA substance abuse compliance regulations and their application to transit agency policies and procedures.
Professional Development Hours (PDH’s) awarded for this course may be applied toward meeting CEAP, psychology, counseling, social work, education, and related credentialing, and accreditation or licensure requirements as accepted by the respective credentialing board or agency. This course also meets the requirements for C-SAPA certification (up to 8 hours) and 40-281(d) Continuing Education 3-year requirement for SAP functions.
Course
Elements
- Available technical assistance materials
- The audit process and common deficiencies
- Required policy content and communications
- Contractor oversight, checklist review, and action plan
- Drug testing procedures, specimen collection, prescriptions and over-the-counter medications, DHHS certified labs, MRO procedures, checklist review, and action plan
- Alcohol test procedures, breath test, saliva test, checklist review, and action plan
- Procedures for substance abuse professionals
- Testing categories, pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-collision, random, return to duty, follow-up, checklist review, and action plan
- Training requirements, safety sensitive employees, supervisors’ reasonable suspicion
- Recordkeeping, record retention and maintenance, negative tests, information disclosure, reporting, checklist review, and action plan
- Discussion, pretest, final exam
Who Should
Attend
| Human Resource Managers |
Safety Managers |
State DOT Representatives |
| Third-Party Administrators |
Sub. Abuse Professionals |
D & A Program Managers |
| Designated Employer Reps |
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Length: 4 days
Materials Fee: $75
Course
Overview
Develop, implement and maintain an industrial safety management program following OSHA principles and guidelines for the transit workplace: transit facilities, office, maintenance shop, yard, platforms, customer shelters, on-board vehicles, equipment, etc. Emphasis on human factors (fatigue, workplace violence, operator assault, medical and health risks), proactive policies, identification of hazards and unsafe practices, hazard controls and resolution, documentation, employee training requirements, and management of a workplace safety program. A 30-hour OSHA compliance certification is offered to all participants who successfully complete the course. A 10-hour OSHA compliance certification is available to maintenance/shop employees who choose to attend 10 hours of training related to their workplace environment (afternoon of day 1, day 2, morning of day 3).
Course
Elements
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Introduction to occupational health, the Occupational Safety and Health Act
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Recordkeeping
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Accident/Incident investigation
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Hazardous materials (HAZMAT), hazardous communications (HAZCOM), to include
review of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
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Fire protection
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Bloodborne pathogens
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Lock-out, tag-out
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Walking and working surfaces, slips, trips, and falls
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Electrical
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Safeguarding machinery
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Welding and brazing
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Hand and power tools
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Hearing protection
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Materials handling
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Confined spaces
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Personal protective equipment, respirators
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Fatigue
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Workplace violence
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Emergency plans and evacuation
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Loss control
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Ergonomics
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Flammable and combustible liquids
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Industrial hygiene
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Preparation for site inspection and audit guidelines
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Field exercise: informal site audit
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Pretest, quizzes, group audit presentations, final exam
Who Should
Attend
| Safety Program Developers |
Safety Program Administrators |
Safety Program Implementers |
| Safety Inspectors |
Safety Auditors |
Transit Executive Managers |
| Safety Managers |
Safety Supervisors |
Risk Managers |
| Human Resource Managers |
Operations Managers |
Operations Supervisors |
| Field Supervisors |
Maintenance Managers |
Maintenance Supervisors |
| Maintenance Staff |
Safety Committee Personnel |
Corrective Action Personnel |
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Length: 4 1/2 days
Materials Fee: $50
Course
Overview
This course is designed to assist new and veteran front line supervisors to effectively implement their human resource management responsibilities. The fundamentals and regulatory responsibilities of supervision will be addressed, as well as day-to-day operations.
Course
Elements
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Fundamentals of supervision
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Communication
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Delegation
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Coaching
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Performance evaluation
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Customer Service
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Ethics in the workplace
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Americans with Disabilities Act
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Equal Employment Opportunity
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Affirmative Action
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Family Medical Leave Act
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Prevention of sexual harassment
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Reasonable Suspicion
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Scheduling and vehicle assignment
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Safe driving practices
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Emergency management
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Vehicle/Farebox troubleshooting
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Discipline and grievance procedures
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Tabletop exercises
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Pretest, quiz, final exam
Who Should
Attend
| New Supervisors |
Veteran Supervisors |
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