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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SAN'MARCOS City of San • • Agency • P • can cause injury, illness,or death;damage to or loss of the facilities,equipment, rolling stock,or infra- structure of a public transportation system;or, damage to the environment. Hazard identification focuses on out-of-the-norm conditions that need special attention or immediate action, new procedures,or training to resolve a condition that is unacceptable and return conditions to an acceptable level.The City through our transit service provider uses a variety of mechanisms for identifying and documenting hazards, namely: • Through training and reporting procedures,the City's service provider ensures personnel can identify hazards and that each employee clearly understands that the employee has a responsibility to immediately report any safety hazards identified to the employee's supervisors. Continued training helps employees to develop and improve the skills needed to identify hazards. • Employee hazard training coupled with the ESRP ensures that the City's service provider has full use of information from frontline employees for hazard identification. • Upon receiving the hazard report,the City's service provider's supervisors communicate the identified hazard to the CSO for entry into the risk register for risk assessment,classification and possible mitigation. • In carrying out the risk assessment,the CSO uses standard reporting forms (e.g. Pre-and Post- Trip Inspection Forms and Preventative Maintenance(PM) Inspections to mitigate mechanical based safety hazards that are identified)and other reports completed on a routine basis by administrative,operations and maintenance.The City's service provider's Maintenance Plan and Training Requirements(Appendix A) documents contain procedures for flagging and reporting hazards as a part of day-to-day operations. • The City's service provider's supervisors are responsible for performing and documenting regular safety assessments,which include reporting and recommending methods to reduce identified hazards. • The City's service provider uses incident reports and records to determine specific areas of training that need to be covered with employees to ensure safety hazard identification is continually improved, and thus ensure that hazards are identified before an event recurrence. • Incident reports are also analyzed by the City's service provider's risk management team to identify any recurring patterns or themes that would help to identify underlying hazards and root causes of the event that can be mitigated to prevent recurrence. • If a hazard is such that a transit employee would be reluctant to report the information due to perceived negative consequences (e.g. disciplinary action), alternative,anonymous reporting w