Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: May 6, 2024) |
Title 49 - Transportation |
Subtitle B - Other Regulations Relating to Transportation |
Chapter II - Federal Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation |
Part 214 - Railroad Workplace Safety |
Subpart C - Roadway Worker Protection |
§ 214.313 - Responsibility of individual roadway workers.
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§ 214.313 Responsibility of individual roadway workers.
(a) Each roadway worker is responsible for following the on-track safety rules of the railroad upon which the roadway worker is located.
(b) A roadway worker shall not foul a track except when necessary for the performance of duty.
(c) Each roadway worker is responsible to ascertain that on-track safety is being provided before fouling a track.
(d) Each roadway worker may refuse any directive to violate an on-track safety rule, and shall inform the employer in accordance with § 214.311 whenever the roadway worker makes a good faith determination that on-track safety provisions to be applied at the job location do not comply with the rules of the operating railroad.