Using Your Safety Management System (SMS) to Protect Transit Workers from Assaults

Using Your Safety Management System (SMS) to Protect Transit Workers from Assaults
Federal Transit Administration
December 2023

FTA is working with transit agencies to address the ongoing risk of assaults on transit workers using Safety Management System principles and methods, which FTA adopted as the basis of its Public Transportation Safety Program and Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans (PTASP) regulation.

FTA has developed technical assistance resources to help transit agencies conduct safety risk assessments related to assaults on transit workers and develop safety risk mitigations.

Check out FTA’s full page of crime prevention assistance resources.