Submission of Continuous Welded Rail (CWR) Plans

FRA CWR Generic Plan – Effective July, 2021

Submission of CWR Plans

Please forward all CWR Plan submissions by email to: FRACWRREVIEW@dot.gov

Contact the following staff with any questions or concerns:

Adam Giovando Deputy Staff Director – Rail...

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Injury and Illness Codes

1. Nature of the Injury

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3. Occupational Illness Codes

Injuries

Circumstance Codes

1.Physical Act

2.Location - Parts I, II, and III

3.Event

4.Tools, Machinery, Appliances, Structures, Surfaces (etc.)...

Train Accident Cause Codes

1. Track, Roadbed and Structure 2. Signal and Communication 3. Train Operation – Human Factor 4. Mechanical and Electrical Failures 5. Miscellaneous causes not otherwise listed

Train accidents are...

Employee Job Codes

1. Executives, Officals, and Staff Assistants

2. Professional and Administrative

3. Maintenance of Way and Structures

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Examples of Well-Designed Process & Technologies

Effective design matches product features with user needs. Attentional demands on operators require products that make important information easy to locate and recognize. Recent cab designs have  integrated multiple electronic...

User Centered Design

User-centered design is a process to design tools that take user needs and requirements into account. It  includes steps to identify these needs and requirements through interviews and/or observations of the target user. Some key parts...

HSI Topic: Training

Training is another HSI domain that intersects with Human Factors Engineering and Safety.

Training is any activity that results in enabling users, operators, maintainers, leaders and support personnel, to acquire, gain or enhance knowledge, skills, and concurrently develops their...

HSI Topic: Safety

One HSI domain that intersects with Human Factors Engineering is Safety.

Safety factors consist of those system design characteristics that serve to minimize the potential for mishaps causing death or injury to operators, maintainers and supporters or threaten the survival and/or...