Get Funding for Railroad Safety Improvements
Posted: May 28, 2015
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Summary
This grant is for the University of Connecticut to develop and test safety assessment tools for short line and regional railroads, focusing on improving the safe transport of crude oil by rail. Eligible entities can receive funding to refine and validate these crucial safety evaluation methods.
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his is a directed grant to the University of Connecticut (UCONN) to continue their pilot testing and refinement of safety culture assessment tools (e.g., surveys, interview protocol) for the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) Safety Institute. This project addresses the safety of crude oil transported by rail and responds to a January 2014 letter from the U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx to ASLRRA. UCONN has participated extensively in the initial planning stages of the Safety Institute as a key member of the Institute’s development team.
Under grant FR-RRD-0061, UCONN developed a suite of safety culture assessment tools (i.e., web-based survey, interview protocols, and onsite review protocols) grounded in current research literature and began pilot testing them at short line railroads. Under grant FR-RRD-0031, UCONN conducted a job analysis of the assessor role, detailed in the FRA report Development of a Short Line Railroad Safety Institute: Phase I – Job Analysis (RR 14-10). Amending UCONN’s current grant will allow UCONN to continue pilot testing, collecting data from, and validating the suite of safety culture tools developed under grant FR-RRD-0061.