Checklists
Federal Transit Administration
- Office of Safety and Security
American Public Transportation Association
(APTA) - Public
Transportation Security
- Checklists for
Emergency Response Planning and System Security (Original, List below
Modified by Richard Collins, Dec 23, 2001)
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Emergency Response Plan
- Identify responsibilities of employees by function
- Planning process is formalized and documented
- Coordination is formalized and documented
- Training is formalized and documented - Regular assessments of employee
proficiency conducted
- Prepare for multiple concurrent events
- Service continuation, restoration / recovery plan developed
- Emergency drills and table-top exercises scheduled, executed, graded and
adjusted on a regular basis
- Procedure revisions and updates incorporated into evacuation
procedures; SOPs developed for signatures and distribution
- Elements of Plan:
- Emergency Coordination - Emergency contacts list and
procedures developed, kept current and in the hands of those affected.
Responsibilities for call-outs and backups identified. Planning,
coordination, training and mutual aid agreements:
- with Transportation Operations
- With Security, transit police
- With Safety Department
- With Fire / rescue units
- with Hospitals, Emergency Services
- with Local Police, State Police, FBI, National Guard
- with Federal Agencies
- with Hazardous materials / Environmental agencies
- with Regional Office of Emergency Management
- with Media
- Formalize media relations
responsibilities, information control procedures and policies
- with Employees - issued quick reference guidelines
for emergency and security situations
- Security training provided to all staff levels (from
front-line "eyes and ears" concept to professional
level security training)
- with Public - Development of appropriate
pre-determined public address announcements for station platforms
and on-board vehicles
- with families of employees and public - Support
systems developed to provide post-incident support to customers and
employees
- Emergency Drills and Exercises
- Exercise Documentation - have a written plan, critique the plan,
record recommendations, record follow-up
- Emergency Procedures - reviewed by Safety Management Team on a
regular basis and updated as needed
- Security risk/vulnerability assessments conducted, documented
and reviewed
- Incident Management and Planning:
- Pre-determination of factors that would require partial or full
service shut-down
- Regular functional testing / inspection of emergency support
equipment and systems (e.g., emergency phones, CCTV, alarms,
onboard/in-vehicle equipment, two-way radios, fans, pumps,
generators, etc.)
- Standard Operating Procedures for HVAC operations in various
emergency conditions
- Contingency plans for loss of electrical power and radio or
phone communications
- Procedure exists for alternate Operations Control Center in the
event of evacuation
- Emergency evacuation routing for transit vehicles developed
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Security Plans and Preparations
- Security Plan established to address all operations modes and
contracted services, to address multiple concurrent security
incidents
- System security responsibilities and duties established
- Security task force established
- Security equipment regularly inspected, maintained and
functionally tested; including personal equipment issued to
security personnel
- Security SOPs reviewed on a regular basis and updates made as
needed to Security Plan
- Security equipment installed, inspected, and maintained to
monitor trespass activities
- Contingency SOPs developed; drills and table-top exercises
conducted for extraordinary circumstances
- Terrorism (including chemical/ biological agents/ weapons of
mass destruction)
- Riot / Domestic unrest
- Catastrophic natural events
- System-wide communications failure
- Computer, Communications, Utilities failures
- Security Procedures:
- Standard Operating Procedures for critical incident command,
control, and service continuation/ restoration
- Agency employees identifiable by visible identification and/or
uniform
- Policy and procedures in place for facilities key control
- Visitor, deliveries and contractor facility access procedures
developed / visible identification required
- Safety and security coordination on trespass issues
- Data collection established for all security issues / incidents;
analysis performed and recommendations made; document control
established, including follow-up
- Background checks on employees and contractors (where
applicable)
- Regular assessments of employee security proficiencies conducted
- Awareness, Training, Infrastructure Hardening
- Personal safety awareness/education programs for passengers and
employees and community outreach
- Trespass awareness programs, including education and signage
- Concepts of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED)
applied in reviews of facilities and in new design and
modifications
- Security checklists developed and regularly used for verifying
status of physical infrastructure and security procedures
Transportation
Research Board - Transportation Security
The National Safety Council
- Emergency Response
Plans This article outlines the general elements that should be included
in your emergency response plan (ERP), including your company's
responsibility for activating emergency procedures and how all members of an
organization should respond to an emergency situation.
- Clear, written policies that designate a chain of command, listing
names and job titles of the people (or departments) who are responsible
for making decisions, monitoring response actions and recovering back to
normal operations.
- Names of those who are responsible for assessing the degree of risk to
life and property and who should be notified for various types of
emergencies.
- Specific instructions for shutting down equipment and production
processes and stopping business activities.
- Facility evacuation procedures, including a designated meeting site
outside the facility and a process to account for all employees after an
evacuation.
- Procedures for employees who are responsible for shutting down
critical operations before they evacuate the facility.
- Specific training and practice schedules and equipment requirements
for employees who are responsible rescue operations, medical duties,
hazardous responses, fire fighting and other responses specific to your
work site.
- The preferred means of reporting fires and other emergencies.
National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC)
- Increase user awareness
- Update anti-virus software
- Stop hostile attachments at the e-mail server
- Utilize ingress & egress filtering
- Establish policy and procedures for responding and recovery