Roadway Worker Protection 1 updated
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• Exclusive Track Occupancy -✓✓Establishing on-track safety on
controlled track in which movement authority of trains and other
equipment withheld by train dispatcher. Is typically applied by diverting
trains onto an adjacent bidirectional track.
• Foul Time -✓✓Employee in charge request and is notified by Train
Dispatcher that no train/on track equipment, with exception of
equipment specifically assigned to roadway work, will operate within
specified working limits until employee in charge reports clear of the
tracks.
• Standard Track Flagging -✓✓Is typically utilized for planned or
unplanned work lasting more than (1) hour.
• Train Approach Warning -✓✓on-track safety through utilization of a
Watchman to warn Roadway Workers of the approach of trains in ample
time (15 seconds) for them to move or remain in a place.
• Individual Train Detection -✓✓Is a method by which a Lone Worker
acquires on-track safety by observing approaching trains and leaving the
track before approaching trains arrive.
• Employee In Charge -✓✓A person responsible for providing on-track
safety for one or more work groups or themselves within a specified
working limits when, and only when, Roadway Worker Protection is
provided by exclusive track occupancy, foul time, and inaccessible
track.
• Job Briefing -✓✓a work unit that meets to discuss all aspects of the
work to be performed and any safety concerns
, • Dispatchers -✓✓an employee that is assigned to control and issue
orders concerning the movement of trains on a specific route of the
railroad track
• Adjacent track -✓✓a controlled or non controlled track centered less
than 25 feet from the center occupied track
• Work Done on Tracks -✓✓Inspection, construction, maintenance or,
repair on railroad tracks
• On track Safety -✓✓Keeping from the danger of being struck by a
train or any other railroad equipment.
• on track safety briefing -✓✓explanation of the type of track protection
for the employees when track protection is required
• railroad work groups -✓✓two or more rail workers organized to work
together on a common task
• Working Limits -✓✓is established to control which trains, engines, and
on track equipment can move on track.
it can be established through
-exclusive track occupancy
-in acceptable track
-foul time
-train coordination
• Train Dispatcher -✓✓A railroad employee who issues orders that
control the movement of trains on a railroad track
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• Exclusive Track Occupancy -✓✓Establishing on-track safety on
controlled track in which movement authority of trains and other
equipment withheld by train dispatcher. Is typically applied by diverting
trains onto an adjacent bidirectional track.
• Foul Time -✓✓Employee in charge request and is notified by Train
Dispatcher that no train/on track equipment, with exception of
equipment specifically assigned to roadway work, will operate within
specified working limits until employee in charge reports clear of the
tracks.
• Standard Track Flagging -✓✓Is typically utilized for planned or
unplanned work lasting more than (1) hour.
• Train Approach Warning -✓✓on-track safety through utilization of a
Watchman to warn Roadway Workers of the approach of trains in ample
time (15 seconds) for them to move or remain in a place.
• Individual Train Detection -✓✓Is a method by which a Lone Worker
acquires on-track safety by observing approaching trains and leaving the
track before approaching trains arrive.
• Employee In Charge -✓✓A person responsible for providing on-track
safety for one or more work groups or themselves within a specified
working limits when, and only when, Roadway Worker Protection is
provided by exclusive track occupancy, foul time, and inaccessible
track.
• Job Briefing -✓✓a work unit that meets to discuss all aspects of the
work to be performed and any safety concerns
, • Dispatchers -✓✓an employee that is assigned to control and issue
orders concerning the movement of trains on a specific route of the
railroad track
• Adjacent track -✓✓a controlled or non controlled track centered less
than 25 feet from the center occupied track
• Work Done on Tracks -✓✓Inspection, construction, maintenance or,
repair on railroad tracks
• On track Safety -✓✓Keeping from the danger of being struck by a
train or any other railroad equipment.
• on track safety briefing -✓✓explanation of the type of track protection
for the employees when track protection is required
• railroad work groups -✓✓two or more rail workers organized to work
together on a common task
• Working Limits -✓✓is established to control which trains, engines, and
on track equipment can move on track.
it can be established through
-exclusive track occupancy
-in acceptable track
-foul time
-train coordination
• Train Dispatcher -✓✓A railroad employee who issues orders that
control the movement of trains on a railroad track
