Public Transportation Security, Volume 10: Hazard and Security Plan Workshop: Instructor Guide (with supporting material on CD-ROM)

This tenth volume of TCRP Report 86, "Public Transportation Security," will assist rural, small urban, and community-based passenger transportation agencies in creating hazard and security plans or evaluating and modifying existing plans, policies, and procedures consistent with the National Incident Management System (NIMS). The importance of NIMS is set out in a September 8, 2004, letter to state governors from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge: "NIMS provides a consistent nationwide approach for Federal, State, territorial, tribal, and local governments to work effectively and efficiently together to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents, regardless of cause, size or complexity." Transit systems must have a hazard and security plan in place, understood by all staff, to identify and to eliminate the risk or minimize the loss and disruptions to operations, staff, and passengers due to workplace violence, spillovers of domestic violence, or an act of domestic or international terrorism. The objective of this project was to develop a hazard and security planning template and to design training for developing security plans and integrating those plans into the routine of daily transit operations. Users of this report series will find that the products emphasize mitigation along with prevention, preparation, response, and recovery. The training course in this report is supplemented online with a downloadable template for a completed hazard and security plan. The CD-ROM, CRP-CD-64, includes those resources and more than 60 other documents organized in an electronic library.