Transportation Safety Institute

 

TSI Classes

In 1998, the Transportation Safety Institute (TSI) established a certification for Transit Safety and Security Specialist.  This certification is available to any participant who has completed TSI's series of designated transit safety and security courses within three years (since 1996). These courses include the following:

  • Transit System Safety
  • Rail System Safety
  • Transit Industrial Management
  • Transit System Security
  • Effectively Managing Emergencies
  • Transit Rail Accident Investigation
  • Fundamentals of Bus Accident Investigations.
Transit System Safety is a 2-day workshop that introduces course participants to the basic system safety concepts. This course identifies key system safety principles and highlights industry "best  practices" for addressing them.  Topics to be covered include the following:
  • Developing and implementing a System Safety Program Plan
  • Performing hazard analysis
  • Improving safety accountability
  • Using behavioral safety principles to promote improved safety performance

This course is also pre-requisite for any students registering for Rail System Safety or Transit Rail Accident Investigation. Rail System Safety is a 3-day course that emphasizes state safety oversight regulations and their application in the rail transit environment. This course provides participants with (1) an understanding of the benefits of system safety and (2) a set of tools for developing and implementing effective System Safety Programs. Transit Rail Accident Investigation is a 4 ½ day course that outlines the fundamentals of investigating rail transit accidents, including on-scene data collection, witness interviews, measurements and

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