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SAFETY DATA ACQUISITION /ANALYSIS <br />DESCRIPTION OF ELEMENT <br />Understanding safety data is an important step toward allocating important (and often scarce) <br />resources to implement safety program elements. Safety data relative to transit provider <br />operations can be used to determine safety trends in system operation. The data include <br />information gathered from within the system on safety - related events such as passenger injuries <br />or claims, employee injuries, accidents, incidents, and preventability. Driver reports (sometimes <br />called logs) can be an important source of safety problems, such as dangerous stop locations, <br />problems with vehicle equipment, safety problems with the route, and other issues. The data is <br />useful in a formal hazard identification and resolution process to help identify hazards before <br />they cause accidents. The data may also help improve system performance, not only in respect <br />to safety, but also in overall delivery of service to the riding public. In addition, trend analyses <br />of safety data can help determine the effectiveness of safety initiatives that have been <br />implemented. <br />A. One of the most important services the safety unit provides for the transit organization is <br />the collection, maintenance, and distribution of safety data relative to system operation. <br />• Includes information gathered from within the system on various operating events <br />relative to safety. <br />B. Analysis of this system specific data can be used to determine trends and patterns in <br />system operation. <br />C. Used as part of the Hazard Resolution Process, data collection and analysis can be used to <br />identify hazards before they cause accidents. <br />• This is done by techniques such as trend analysis and thus become a vital component <br />of efforts to improve system performance, not only in respect to safety but also in <br />overall delivery of service to the riding public. <br />D. The responsibilities for providing, receiving, processing and analyzing data should be <br />listed here and can be general or specific, based on the needs of the transit system. <br />04/25/16 PDFConvert. 10733. 1. Section 3_- _Safety Data Acquisition Analysis 2 <br />Attachment number 3 \n <br />F -9 Page 224 <br />