Agenda - 09-01-20; 8-h - Approval of Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan

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12 Once sufficient information has been obtained,the Operations Manager will facilitate completion of relevant sections of the Critical Asset Vulnerability Action Report, using the OCPT Safety Risk Assessment Matrix, with the Safety Committee. The Operations Manager will document the Safety Committee's safety risk assessment, including hazard rating and mitigation options for each assessed safety hazard in the Critical Asset Vulnerability Action Report. The Operations Manager will maintain on file Safety Committee agendas, additional information collected, and the Critical Asset Vulnerability Action Report and Assessment Tool entries for a period of three years from the date of generation. Safety Risk Mitigation OCPT's Operations Manager and the Safety Committee also review current methods of safety risk mitigation and establish methods or procedures to mitigate or eliminate safety risk associated with specific hazards. If the risks are unacceptable, OCPT will take steps to lower the risk to an acceptable or tolerable level, or to remove or avoid the hazard. The level of risk can be lowered by: • Reducing the severity of the potential consequences; • Reducing the likelihood of occurrence and/or; • Reducing the exposure to that risk;or • Some combination of 1, 2 or 3 above. In general, OCPT will take the following safety actions to mitigate risk. These actions can be grouped into three broad categories, including: • Physical Defenses:These include objects and technologies that are engineered to discourage,or warn against, or prevent inappropriate action or mitigate the consequences of events(e.g.traffic control devices,fences,safety restraining systems,etc.). • Administrative Defenses:These include procedures and practices that mitigate the likelihood of accident/incident(e.g.safety regulations, standard operating procedures, personnel proficiency, supervision inspection,training,etc.). • Behavioral Defenses: These include behavioral interventions through education and public awareness campaigns aimed at reducing risky and reckless behavior. OCPT's Operations Manager tracks and updates safety risk mitigation information in the Critical Asset Vulnerability Action Report and makes the Register available to the Safety Committee and to other OCPT staff upon request. 6. Safety Assurance Safety Assurance provides the necessary feedback to ensure that the SMS is functioning effectively and that OCPT is meeting or exceeding its safety objectives. Safety assurance requires a clear understanding of how safety performance will be evaluated, or in other words, what metrics will be used to assess system safety and determine if the safety management system is working properly. Having decided on the metrics by which success will be measured; safety management requires using these metrics within the organization for ongoing performance improvement. Through our Safety Assurance process, OCPT: • Assesses the effectiveness of safety risk mitigations to make sure the mitigations are appropriate and are implemented as intended; • Investigates safety events to identify causal factors; and • Analyzes information from safety reporting, including data about safety failures, defects, orconditions. Safety Performance Monitoring and Measurement One purpose of the OCPT SMS is to ensure that OCPT is tracking and addressing safety concerns of all types that arise within OCPT services and facilities. OCPT has many processes in place to monitor its entire transit system for compliance with operations and maintenance procedures including: 10