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Safety Hazard Reduction and Resolution

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Protecting Workers from Effects of Heat

This fact sheet from Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) provides information on types of heat disorders and health effects caused by overexposure to heat, and how to treat this disorders/effects and mitigate heat exposure.

2005
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How to Mitigate the Most Common Collision Types and Circumstances

This Part 1 excerpt from TCRP Report 125 guides users to strategies and specific applications of the strategies based on collision types and circumstances.

2008
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Accident Preventability Guide

This guide is for educating transit staff on the standards to use in determining whether an accident or incident was preventable. These standards ensure determinations are made fairly and consistently.

NY 2008
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Risk Management For Rural Transit Systems

This is a link to the Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP) document that discusses risk management, its importance to rural transit, and the six steps of risk management.

2009
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Disaster Preparedness Planning Guide For Facilities

This preparedness planning guide is directed to facility managers and administrators and is intended to provide assistance in meeting the planning requirements necessary to protect employees and clients who may be conducting business within the facility. It is intentionally generic in nature, so that it may apply to a variety of public buildings and large facilities where resident or worker populations may be at risk as a result of natural or human-caused disasters.

PA 2008
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Business Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist

This checklist from Center for Disease Control (CDC) identifies important specific activities businesses can do now to prepare for limiting the negative impact to economy and society should a pandemic influenza outbreak occur. Plus it will help to prepare for other emergencies as well.

2006
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Hazard Identification/Resolution Process and Hazard Assessment Matrix

This excerpt from Buncombe County's Community Transportation Program provides a mechanism by which hazards are identified, analyzed for potential impact, and resolved in an acceptable manner.

NC 2005
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Chapter 3.2 Passenger Boarding and Alighting

This excerpt from PennTRAIN's PennSCORE Operator Training Manual provides a lesson on safe passenger boarding and alighting recommendations for drivers.

PA 2002
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Section 5 - Risk Management Program

This Section 5 excerpt from TxDOT's Safety Data Acquisition and Analysis Guide discusses the importance of hazard identification and analysis and how to perform risk assessment, and provides examples for hazard resolution.

TX 2003
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Important Considerations for Improving Safety Around Transit Buses

This excerpt from the TCRP Report 125 Guidebook presents a discussion of pedestrian-and-bus safety from a more top-down, holistic approach. This section discusses contributing factors that are not necessarily directly linked to one of the four primary types of bus-and-pedestrian collisions.

2008

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