The impact of safety rules revisions on safety culture, incident rates, and liability claims in the U.S. railroad industry : a summary of lessions-learned

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• Creators:
  Coplen, Michael K. ; Ranney, Joyce M.
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development
• Corporate Contributors:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Railroad safety
  • Operating rules
  • Safety management
  • Liability
  • Liability insurance
  • Injury rates
  • Crash rates
  • Safety rules revision
  • Rules consolidation
  • Lessons learned
• Publication/ Report Number:
  RR 03-03
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development
• Abstract:
  The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Human Factors Research and Development (R&D) Program sponsored a lessons-learned study to examine the impact of safety rules revision on safety culture, incident rates, and liability claims in the railroad industry. Safety rules revision (or rules consolidation) identifies key rules that are universally enforceable and eliminates unnecessary and conflicting rules. The process also seeks to promote improvements in safety culture through labor-management collaboration in the rule revision. Thus, it involves a shirt in primary responsibility for rules creation from management to front-line workers with management in a support role.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9465/dot_9465_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 279.27 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center ; Federal Railroad Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:eaf7a364e1fd61b791cdcf45802c83e4d3c90e33be467ad95950ffe95981309c