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REI AE35358SAFETY SPECIALIST
SERVICESOctober 12, 2015
Prepared for:Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
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Our Mission Today
1. Commitment of Program Management, Key Staff, and Project Team
2. Understanding of MARTA’s Safety Challenges and Opportunities
3. Unmatched Transit Safety Expertise4. High Level of Energy, Creativity,
and Innovative Approaches—Case Study Example
5. Why Select the TSSS Team
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Commitment of Program Management, Key Staff,
and Project Teams
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TSSS’s Commitment• Consider safety first! • Assure quality in every aspect of work• Build a lasting relationship with MARTA• Demand professional and personal integrity• Provide experienced certified transit safety professionals• Adhere to scope, schedule, and budget • Will exceed MARTA’s DBE goal
‒ Support Fulton/DeKalb County and City of Atlanta workforce development initiative
“We want to give small and disadvantaged businesses, including minority and women-owned businesses, the opportunity to compete and grow their enterprises, which will help to boost our state and local economy.”
—Keith Parker, MARTA GM/CEO
Certified Sa
fety Exp
ertise
HIGH-QUALITY SAFETY TEAM
Multidisciplinary Capabilities and Experience
Mentor-Protégé Partnership
Meet the Team
• Overall program oversight• Accountable to MARTA for schedule,
budget, and quality• Acts as communications conduit
between MARTA and TSSS team
• Will relocate to Atlanta• Initiation, planning, execution
of task orders• Task order monitoring/reporting• Day-to-day task order oversight
• Jean Claude Aurel, Jr., ASP, CSP, CSS• Program Manager • Construction Safety Task Leader
• Ronald Edwards, CSSD, TSSP• Project Manager• Program Development/Policy Review• Staff Training & Industrial Safety
Task Leader
• Grady Smith, Jr.• Capital Improvement Program• MARTA Expansion Program
• David Wilcock, PE• Capital Improvement Program• Engineering Support
• Mark Davis• Fire/Life Safety Engineering
• Hamid Qaasim• Quality Assurance/
Change Control• Management and
Additional Work
Meet the Team
Similar Transit Agency Expertise (4) Former CSOs (2) CSPs (3) CSS/Ds Bus/Rail (5) SMS Certified (1) Senior TSI Instructor Professional Engineers
Project Team
Quality Assurance Program
• Implement ISO 9000 Compliant Quality Management System (QMS)
• Quality checklists to keep on task• QA Manager reporting to our PM• QA dotted line to MARTA Quality• Implement Plan-Do-Check Cycle
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Management Approach• Single point of contact for
each task order via local project manager
• Strong relationships with MARTA staff and leadership
• Adhere to scope, schedule, and budget
• Proven safety program delivery
• Effective project monitoring, controls, and quality assurance processes
Project Monitoring & Control• Frequent communications
‒ Weekly discussions‒ Progress reports ‒ Leadership briefings‒ SharePoint site
• Monthly progress reports‒ Review of each task order‒ Scheduled information ‒ Concerns requiring MARTA’s attention
• Schedule management‒ Defined milestones and deliverables‒ Task management and status reports
• Cost control‒ Appropriate forecasting during
task order scoping‒ Monitor expended
hours/expenses (burn rate)‒ Invoicing—amount due,
paid, outstanding
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Understanding of MARTA’s Safety Challenges and Opportunities
Programmatic Approach
• Ability to undertake multiple task orders simultaneously
• Anticipate policy changes and rulemaking—MAP-21, OSHA, NFPA, and FTA Office of Safety & Security
• Include transit industry and workplace safety best practices
• Serve as an extension of MARTA staff and a change agent for improved safety culture across the authority
• Provide training to MARTA’s safety staff
CIP Support
Top ten projects consume approximately 54% of the FY14 Capital Budget
• Variety of capital projects• State-of-good-repair and asset
management • Emphasis on programming
and project delivery—schedule adherence
• Large program requiring stringent cost-management controls
• Combination of safety and design engineering expertise for all system elements‒ Track ‒ Systems‒ Communications‒ Facilities/Yards ‒ Vehicles
• Understanding of operations‒ Bus and rail influence on safety
• Safety best practices integrated into design standards, criteria, specifications, and project reviews
CIP Support
• Program includes long-range MARTA expansion plans
• Establish foundation toward SSPPs as planning and environmental advances
• Opportunity to define project safety policies at milestones early on in planning and design
FTA New Starts
Public/Private
Local/Region
CliftonCorridor
Clayton County
GA 400I-20 East
MARTA Expansion Program
CIP Support
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Unmatched Transit Safety Expertise
Program Development and Policy Review
• Gap Analysis
• 49 CFR Part 659 MAP-21 Implement SMS and state-of-good repair
• Safety controls to minimize hazards other than engineering
• Promote safe, efficient, timely, customer-oriented transit operations
Quality Assurance and Configuration Management
• Quality assurance program‒ Implement ISO 9000 Compliant QMS designed for MARTA‒ Designated Quality Director ‒ Process flow charts‒ QC checklist for each task order and semi-annual program audit‒ Plan-Do-Check-Verify‒ QA/QC reports during regular project status meetings
• Configuration management program‒ Implement ISO 10007 Compliant CMS designed for MARTA‒ Baseline document control‒ Unique identifiers for traceability of changes‒ Formal CMP training for all staff
Fire and Life Safety Engineering
• Familiarity with MARTA facilities and fire protection systems
• Positive history working with MARTA’s safety, quality, and engineering staff, as well aslocal first responders
• Proven experience directly related to MARTA’s Fire/Life Safety program
Industrial Safety Specialist
• Vast knowledge of OSHA 29CFR Part 1910, including new requirements
• Site Safety Inspections Checklists tailored to MARTA’s infrastructure requirements
• Use best practices from OSHA, NFPA, building codes, FTA, transit industry
Construction Safety Specialist
• Review and revise MARTA’s construction safety plans
• Review site-specific safety and health work plans
• Verify compliance with 29 CFR Part 1926
• Inspection and audit reports, incident investigations
• Stakeholder communication
• Reduction in TCIR and DART
Staff Training and Additional Work
• Transit industry leaders with the KSAs to develop and proctor Safety Course Curricula
• Training programs based on MARTA policy and procedures
• Extensive experience in Safety Certification‒ Hazard analyses‒ Design reviews
• Off-peak availability
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High Level of Energy, Creativity,
and Innovative Approach Case Study Example
Case Study
Wayside Access Safety
Wayside Access Safety
• Problem: Employee safety within the ROW• Causal factors
‒ Procedural adherence or lack thereof‒ Training (internal and external)‒ Infrastructure constraints‒ System failures (i.e., communications, train control)‒ Behaviors (safety culture)
• Solutions‒ Accountability‒ Engineering controls (e.g., TrackSafe)‒ Integration of safety into all aspects of maintenance
and operations
MARTA Safety Dashboard
• Clearinghouse for enhanced MARTA safety data management
• Performance-based safety metrics to drive improved accountability and a safety-focused culture
• Transparency and system-wide monitoring tool
• Tailored and expandable to meet MARTA existing and future needs
Could also serve as an aid to visualization and analysis of MARTA geospatial system data
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Value of selecting the TSSS Team
Certified Sa
fety Ex
pertise
HIGH-QUALITY SAFETY TEAM
Multidisciplinary Capabilities and Experience
Mentor-Protégé Partnership
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Why the TSSS Team
• Programmatic approach‒ Proven program and project delivery
• Familiarity with MARTA programs and priorities • Innovative Safety Dashboard and other tools• Transit agency expertise—sat on your side of the table• 100% DBE
‒ Mentor protégé/support of local workforce development initiatives
The High Quality Safety Team
Questions & Answers
Certified Sa
fety Ex
pertise
HIGH-QUALITY SAFETY TEAM
Multidisciplinary Capabilities and Experience
Mentor-Protégé Partnership