Are railroads or contractors responsible to ensure that third-party employees are trained in on-track safety?
A. Sec. 214.311 of the RWP regulation places responsibility with all employers (whether they are railroads or contractors) to see that employees are trained and supervised to work with the on-track safety rules in effect at the work site. The actual training and supervision of contractor employees might be undertaken by the operating railroad, but the responsibility to see that it is done rests with the employer. This section applies to all employers of roadway workers. Employers may be railroads, contractors to railroads, or railroads whose employees are working on other railroads. Although railroads, rather than contractors, will implement most on-track safety programs, both are employers and, as such, each is responsible to its employees to provide them with the means of achieving on-track safety. Q-4. What are the definitions of employee and employer under the RWP? A. Sec. 214.7 Definitions – · Employee means an individual who is engaged or compensated by a railroad or by a contrac
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