Res 2024-142 approving the updated Texas Department of Transportation sponsored Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) and establishing fiscal year 2025

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MAR COS City of San Marcos Agency The City will direct our service contractor to have policies in place pertaining to the employee safety program.The City's current contractor CARTS has a set of policies in place within Section 2.06 of the CARTS Employee Handbook(Appendix A,Table 8 shows the document name, file name, and date of adoption)that state that employees may submit issues or safety concerns to the Board or General Manager in writing through their respective supervisor. Additionally, Section 10 of the Employee Handbook, called Employee Responsibilities& Reports and Employee Suggestions, contains policies that state that employees are expected to promptly report every on-the-job matter, no matter how minor, to their Supervisor. Employees are also to immediately report to their Supervisors any conditions that threaten the health and safety of employees or visitors. CARTS encourages all employees to make suggestions to their Supervisors. CARTS, under the direction of and in collaboration with the City,will continue to review and modify, if necessary, the Employee Responsibilities& Reports and Employee Suggestions to develop the procedures into a full ESRP to ensure that the procedures comply with 49 CFR Part 673. In general, the City of San Marcos ESRP will ensure that all employees are encouraged to report safety conditions directly to senior management or their direct Supervisor for elevation to senior management. The policy will include any contract employees.The policy will also spell out what protections are afforded employees who report safety related conditions and will describe employee behaviors that are not covered by those protections.The policy will also elaborate on how safety conditions that are reported will be reported back to the initiator(s)—either to the individual or groups of individuals or organization, dependent on the nature of the safety condition. To bolster the information received from frontline employees, CARTS, in consultation with the City, will also review its current policy for how its agency receives information and safety related data from employees and customers. If necessary, CARTS will develop additional means for receiving, investigating and reporting the results from investigations back to the initiator(s)—either to the person, groups of persons, or distributed agency-wide to ensure that future reporting is encouraged. L (,aai rn,��rr u o l c a'Iflil g 'Irll iie Ih'dky ff I oo>a!i iie Agency 67123( ) The transit management team of the City and our service provider CARTS is committed to ensuring the safety of our clientele, personnel and operations. Part of that commitment is developing an SMS and safety culture that reduces risk to the lowest level possible.The first step in developing a full SMS and safety culture is communicating our SMP to all parties involved. The SMP and safety objectives are at the forefront of all communications.This communication strategy will include the continuation of Quarterly Safety Meetings to refresh transit employees on the safety policies, posting the policy in prominent work locations for existing transit employees and adding the policy statement to the on-boarding material for all new transit employees. In addition, the policy statement will become part of our transit contractor's regular safety meetings and other safety communications efforts.The policy will be signed by the Accountable Executive so that all transit employees know that the policy is supported by management.