✣ For transit agencies
Your safety plan is due
for review every year
FTA’s Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan rule asks agencies to manage safety risk, review the plan every year and, for rail, keep an emergency preparedness and response plan. Preppr exercises that plan with your regional public safety partners and keeps the record.
49 CFR Part 673
1 yr
between reviews and updates of your agency safety plan.
✣ The compliance clock
One plan. An annual review.
Agencies that receive FTA Urbanized Area Formula funds keep a safety plan built on a Safety Management System. It is reviewed and updated every year, approved by the board, and certified to FTA.
1 yr
Annual review
Review and update the agency safety plan every year, and certify compliance to FTA.
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SMS components
Safety management policy, safety risk management, safety assurance and safety promotion.
Rail
Emergency plans for rail
Rail transit agencies include an emergency preparedness and response plan in the safety plan.
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Committee approval
Agencies serving large urbanized areas approve the plan through a joint labor-management safety committee.
Source: 49 CFR Part 673, Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans. Confirm requirements with your FTA regional office.
✣ When the auditor asks
Every step leaves evidence
Preppr records each part of the cycle as it happens, so the documentation exists before anyone requests it.
Assess
Ask Preppr
Reads your agency safety plan and emergency procedures and shows where they are thin.
✓ Gap register for your safety plan
Gather intel
Intelligence
Brings weather, security and special-event signal into context with your service area.
✓ Threat picture linked to your network
Engage
Collaborate
Gathers input from operators, dispatch, maintenance and regional public safety partners.
✓ Documented partner input with dates
Design
Exercise & Simulation
Builds service-disruption scenarios from your highest-risk lines and facilities.
✓ Exercise plan tied to your safety risks
Exercise
Exercise & Simulation
Runs the session with operations, dispatch and first responders, in person or virtually.
✓ Dated participant and decision log
Improve
Improve
Tracks corrective actions to closure and into next year’s plan review.
✓ AAR/IP ready for your annual plan review
✣ Scenarios transit agencies run in Preppr
Test the day you hope never comes
Rail
Derailment in a tunnel
Evacuation, fire response and regional mutual aid.
Weather
Flooded stations
Service suspension, bus bridges and rider communications.
Security
Threat at a major event
Crowd management, dispatch and police coordination.
✣ Inside Preppr
From your plans to a ready exercise
Exercise Designer reads your own plans and the rules your sector answers to, then drafts the scenario, injects, and objectives for your team to review.
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Exercise your emergency procedures with regional public safety, and carry findings into next year’s safety plan review.
How Preppr supports transit across the cycle
1 · Ask
Ask Preppr
Ask about your safety plan and emergency procedures, and draft updates cited to the page.
2 · Remember
Knowledge
Keep plans, procedures and past AARs for every mode in one cited memory.
3 · Watch
Intelligence
Follow weather, security and special-event signals that affect your service.
4 · Engage
Collaborate
Gather input from operators, dispatch, maintenance and regional public safety partners.
5 · Practice
Exercise & Simulation
Build service-disruption scenarios and run them with operations, dispatch and first responders.
6 · Improve
Improve
Carry findings and corrective actions into next year’s safety plan review.
Requirements this covers
49 CFR Part 673
Agency safety plan built on a Safety Management System, reviewed every year.
Rail emergency plans
Emergency preparedness and response plans for rail transit agencies.
Scenarios teams test
Derailment
Flooded stations
Power loss on the line
Cyber attack on dispatch systems
Threat at a major event
Severe winter weather
See it with your own plans.
A 30-minute demo built around your hazards and obligations.
Other sectors