TO: AC Transit Board of Directors
FROM: Salvador Llamas, General Manager/Chief Executive Officer
SUBJECT: Safety Performance Annual Report
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Consider receiving the Fiscal Year 2024/25 Safety Performance Annual Report.
Staff Contact:
Salvador Llamas, General Manager/Chief Executive Officer
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STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE:
Goal - Safe and Secure Operations
Initiative - Service Quality
BUDGETARY/FISCAL IMPACT:
There are no budgetary or fiscal impacts related to this report.
BACKGROUND/RATIONALE:
The annual safety report provides a comprehensive overview of the District's Safety Management Systems (SMS) aligned with the safety performance measures outlined in the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) National Public Transportation Safety Plan (? 673.11(a)(3)). Two key concepts discussed in this report are Major Events, as defined in the National Transit Database (NTD): Safety & Security Policy Manual (January 2025), and Vehicle Revenue Miles (VRM) to calculate the rate metrics. To ensure consistency with the NTD reporting, all metric rates in this report are calculated per 100 million VRMs. The report includes two supporting attachments:
Attachment 1- Safety Performance Definitions: Identifies the 14 Safety Performance Measures and descriptions.
Attachment 2- Safety Performance Metrics: Summary charts and results referencing the 14 Safety Performance metrics and display historical trends.
The District's safety mission focuses on hazard identification, risk mitigation, and continual performance monitoring to strengthen safety culture and compliance across all divisions. Safety integration and coordination activities focused on the collection, maintenance, analysis, and reporting of safety data, achievements, and challenges. The objective of these activities is to understand trends, identify leading and lagging indicators, and monitor our performance towards established safety go...
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