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7 <br /> 4. Safety Management Policy <br /> Safety Management Policy Statement <br /> The Orange County Board of County Commissioners and Transportation Services Director strive to provide a safe <br /> environment for employees, customers and guests of OCPT facilities and services. OCPT aims to support a robust <br /> safety culture, and achieve a high level of safety performance.We also work to ensure that all employees are <br /> provided with adequate and appropriate safety information and training.We have established safety performance <br /> targets to help us measure the overall effectiveness of our processes. <br /> OCPT is committed to the following safety objectives: <br /> • Communicating the purpose and benefits of the Safety Management System (SMS)to allmanagers, <br /> supervisors, and employees. <br /> • Providing a culture of open reporting of all safety concerns, ensuring that no action will be taken against <br /> any employee who discloses a safety concern through OCPT's Employee Safety Reporting Program <br /> (ESRP), unless such disclosure indicates, beyond any reasonable doubt, an illegal act, gross negligence, <br /> or a deliberate or willful disregard of regulations or procedures. <br /> • Identifying hazardous and unsafe work conditions and analyzing data from all sources. (After analyzing <br /> provided data, the OCPT Safety Committee will develop processes and procedures to mitigate safety <br /> risk to an acceptable level.) <br /> • Establishing safety performance targets that are realistic,measurable,and data driven. Continually <br /> improving our safety performance through management processes that ensure appropriate safety <br /> management action is taken and is effective. <br /> Theo Letman, Orange County Transportation Services Director <br /> Date <br /> Safety Management Policy Communication <br /> Employee engagement is crucial to a functioning Safety Management System (SMS). Communication is in place to <br /> enable awareness of OCPT safety objectives/safety performance targets as well as to provide ongoing safety <br /> communication up,down, and across the organization. Management proactively engages employees and works to <br /> keep the lines of safety communication honest and open.All employees are made aware of the importance of <br /> OCPT's SMS through the distribution of OCPT's Safety Management Policy Statement to each employee. OCPT <br /> also posts copies of the Safety Management Policy Statement in all facilities. <br /> Authorities, Accountabilities, and Responsibilities <br /> The Transportation Services Director serves as OCPT's Accountable Executive <br /> with the following authorities, accountabilities, and responsibilities under this plan: <br /> • Responsible for ensuring an SMS culture for OCPT operations employees <br /> Accountable Controls and directs human and capital resources needed to develop and <br /> Executive maintain the ASP and SMS. <br /> • and has ultimate responsibility for carrying out the Public Transportation <br /> Agency Safety Plan of a public transportation agency; <br /> • responsibility for carrying out the agency's Transit Asset Management <br /> Plan; and <br /> 5 <br />