Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)

Philadelphia, PA

Overview

Project Status: Active

Timeline: 2016 – present

Services Provided:

  • Safety and Security Certification
  • SMS
  • Training
  • Emergency Management
  • Risk Based Assessment
  • Technical Writing
  • Roadway Worker Protection
  • Safety Staffing Assessment
  • Safety Audits
  • Training Program Assessment

Projects Completed

Provide varies SMS, Training, Emergency Management, and Safety and Security Certification support services.

  • Various Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) development
  • Various program plans; SSMP, SSCP, FRA compliant – SSP – Part 270
  • “Internal Safety Audits” of several System Safety Program Plans (SSPP)
  • Hazard Identification, Assessment, and Mitigation Training Program
  • Roadway Worker Protection Program and Training Program update
  • Emergency Management Operations Plan (EMOP) development
  • City Hall Station Renovation Project Certification support (design)
  • NIMS and ICS training for SEPTA staff
  • SEPTA’s Railroad System Safety Program Plan (SSPP) development
  • SEPTA PTASP with follow up updates
  • NIMS/ICS and Emergency Management Operations Plan (EMOP) training
  • Assessment of the SEPTA Safety Division and Report
  • Grade Crossing Inventory Study and Report
  • King of Prussia project Safety and Security Certification oversight activities


Provide risk based assessment services of SEPTA’s Signal System Safety and Train Control capabilities.

  • Risk Based Assessment
  • Data analysis
  • Safety Management System
  • Assessed SEPTA’s Signal System Safety and Train Control capabilities in the context of the four key hazards and nine potential consequences identified in Table 1 of FTA Safety Advisory 22-2


Provide Executive Level Corporate technical writing services to SEPTA management by means of seminars.

  • Technical Writing Guidance
  • Technical Training Seminars
  • Safety Management Systems


Provide critical safety assessment services, which focused on SEPTA’s Roadway Worker Program (RWP).

  • Roadway Worker Program (RWP) Safety Assessment
  • Risk Based Assessment
  • Data analysis
  • Safety Management System


Provide safety critical risk based assessment services focused on producing a Inter-car Door Hazard Analysis and Safety Risk Evaluation report.

  • Risk Based Assessment
  • Data analysis
  • Safety Management System
  • Inter-car Door Hazard Analysis and Safety Risk Evaluation Report


K&J has been working with SEPTA under a Safety On-Call contract since 2015. Some of those tasks include:

  • SSPP Gap Review
  • Drafted SSP Plan
  • SMS Gap Review and drafted PTASP
  • Training Program Assessment
  • Internal Safety Audits
  • Safety Division Staffing Assessment
  • Job Safety Analyses
  • Accident/Incident Investigation
  • Commuter Rail Risk Based Hazard Analysis
  • Major Project Safety and Security Certification
  • FTA Fatigue Risk Management Program
  • Drafting of Safety Plans and Procedures as requested
  • Accident/Incident Investigation Program Update
  • Emergency Management Operations Plan Update
  • SSPP Update
  • Commuter Rail Risk Based Hazard