R2024-92 Resolution Certifying and Adopting the City of Decatur Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan Amendment

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employees in regard to safety. • Safety Management System means the formal,top-down, organization-wide approach to managing safety risk and assuring the effectiveness of a transit agency's safety risk mitigation efforts. SMS includes systematic procedures, practices, and policies for managing risks and hazards. • Safety performance target means a performance target related to safety management activities. • Safety Promotion means a combination of training and communication of safety information to support SMS as applied to the transit agency's public transportation system. • Safety risk assessment means the formal activity whereby a transit agency determines Safety Risk Management priorities by establishing the significance or value of its safety risks. • Safety Risk Management means a process within a transit agency's Agency Safety Plan for identifying hazards and analyzing, assessing, and mitigating safety risk. • Serious injury means any injury which: (1) Requires hospitalization for more than 48 hours, commencing within 7 days from the date when the injury was received; (2) Results in a fracture of any bone(except simple fractures of fingers,toes,or noses); (3)Causes severe hemorrhages, nerve, muscle, or tendon damage; (4) Involves any internal organ; or(5) Involves second or third-degree burns, or any burns affecting more than 5 percent of the body surface. • Transit agency means an operator of a public transportation system. • Transit Asset Management Plan means the strategic and systematic practice of procuring, operating, inspecting, maintaining, rehabilitating,and replacing transit capital assets to manage their performance, risks, and costs over their life cycles,for the purpose of providing safe, cost-effective,and reliable public transportation, as required by 49 U.S.C. 5326 and 49 CFR Part 625. Section 10: Commonly Used Acronyms Acronym Word or Phrase ADA American's with Disabilities Act of 1990 ASP Agency Safety Plan (also referred to as a PTASP in Part 673) CFR Code of Federal Regulations ESRP Employee Safety Reporting Program FTA Federal Transit Administration IDOT Illinois Department of Transportation MPO Metropolitan Planning Organization Part 673 49 CFR Part 673 (Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan) SMS Safety Management System U.S.C. United States Code VRM Vehicle Revenue Miles 26