Res 2023-161R approving the updated Texas Department of Transportation sponsored Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP), version 2, and establishing fiscal year 2024

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SAW MARC05 City of San Marcos Agency Safety Plan - tea 3. SAFETY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES A. Policy Statement® 673.23(a) The City recognizes that the management of transit safety is a core value.The management team at the City will direct our transit contractor to embrace the SMS and commit to developing, implementing, maintaining, and constantly improving processes to ensure the safety of our employees,customers, and the general public.All levels of management and frontline employees will be committed to safety and understand that safety is the primary responsibility of all employees. The City and our service contractor are committed to: • Communicating the purpose and benefits of the SMS to all staff, managers,supervisors, and employees.This communication will specifically define the duties and responsibilities of each employee throughout the organization and all employees will receive appropriate information and SMS training. • Providing appropriate management involvement and the necessary resources to establish an effective reporting system that will encourage employees to communicate and report any unsafe work conditions, hazards,or at-risk behavior to the management team. • Identifying hazardous and unsafe work conditions and analyzing data from the employee reporting system.After thoroughly analyzing provided data,the transit operations division will develop processes and procedures to mitigate safety risk to an acceptable level. • Ensuring that no action will be taken against employees who disclose safety concerns through the reporting system, unless disclosure indicates an illegal act,gross negligence,or deliberate or willful disregard of regulations or procedures. • Establishing Safety Performance Targets (SPT)that are realistic, measurable, and data driven. • Continually improving our safety performance through management processes that ensure appropriate safety management action is taken and is effective. • Reporting all Agency Safety Plan data required by the Federal Transit Administration }. Employee Safety Reporting Program 673.23(b) Frontline employees are a significant source of safety data.These employees are typically the first to spot unsafe conditions that arise from unplanned conditions either on the vehicles, in the maintenance shop,or in the field during operations. For this reason,the Employee Safety Reporting Program (ESRP) is a major tenet of the PTASP Rule. Under this rule,agencies must establish and implement a process that allows employees to report safety conditions directly to senior management; provides protections for employees who report safety conditions to senior management;and includes a description of employee behaviors that may result in disciplinary action.