Practices for Wayside Rail Transit Worker Protection (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Train operators, control center personnel, supervisors, and managers are responsible for operating the trains through MOW work zones according to the agency's operating rules. In addition, operators at NYCT, MBTA, and TTC provide flagging functions for contractor crews.
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Rules regarding operating employees' responsibilities when traveling through work zones are covered in the overall System Operating Rules. NYCT and TTC integrate both the MOW employee rules and the operating rules into their overall Department of Subways or Subway/SRT Rule Book.
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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority The Operations Training Department is the agency lead for developing and delivering all track safety-related courses based on the ROW Safety Rule Book, including flagging training and other pertinent information provided to them. Labor–management committees review the course pilots.
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The difference between an OSC and flagmen/watchmen is that an OSC is responsible for the on-track safety of work crews. The OSC establishes working limits and assigns and supervises flagmen/watchmen.
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Unless there is an emergency situation, all contract work is carried out in impassable work zones outside revenue service hours or by isolating the contract employees from track level through hoarding. All contract work carried out at track level must be set up and supervised at all times by a rule book-certified TTC employee.
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Generally, these include multidepartmental meetings to review major construction jobs, the issuance of General Orders or similar measures that 12 identified major track construction and maintenance jobs and the levels of worker protection required, and safety briefings with work crews before commencing work. In addition, most of the agencies interviewed had implemented a Safety Hotline that employees with safety concerns could use to make anonymous reports.
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The research team met with two ROW work crews during the MBTA site visit. During the meeting, employees emphasized the value of training and the need for supervisors and managers to "walk the talk." Some concerns were expressed that elements of the MBTA program were too strict, but all workers recognized management's commitment to the program and acknowledged that MBTA was a much safer place to work because of it.
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14 FIGURE 3 NYCT joint management/union safety inspection outline of training curriculum (Courtesy: NYCT)
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