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Compliance Manuals

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Track Safety Standards Compliance Manual

This manual is a supplement to the Safety Assurance and Compliance Program General Manual, hereafter called the "General Manual." This discipline specific manual prescribes the manner in which Federal and State Track Inspectors shall engage in investigative and monitoring activities to assure...

Collaborative Incident Analysis and Human Performance Handbook

This handbook covers many topics such as human behavior, organizational behavior, accident/incident investigations, and learning organizations. It weaves these topics together into a scientifically based set of investigative tools that are practical and relatively easy to use. The concepts and...

Hours of Service Compliance Manual; Passenger Operations

This manual provides clarification on hours of service requirements found at 49 CFR Part 228, Hours of Service Recordkeeping, and FRA hours of service interpretations and policies. Because of the amount of guidance that exists to address the complexity of hours of service requirements, along...

Hours of Service Compliance Manual; Freight Operations

This manual provides clarification on hours of service requirements found in the HSL, Title 49 CFR Part 228, Hours of Service Recordkeeping, and FRA hours of service interpretations and policies. Because of the amount of guidance that exists to address the complexity of hours of service...

Operating Practices Compliance Manual

The goal of the Operating Practices Division in FRA’s Office of Safety Assurance and Compliance is to promote safety in railroad operations by reducing accidents, deaths, and injuries to persons, occupational illnesses, and property or environmental damage attributed to noncompliance with Federal...