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Emerging Risk Exposure. Bus Seat Configuration Forward Facing Seats Jerry Spears, Tracey Christianson, Christian DeVoll, WSTIP and Mike Burress, Community Transit For the Washington State Transit Insurance Pool Quarterly Board Meeting, March 25, 2014. Overview of the Situation.
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Emerging Risk Exposure Bus Seat Configuration Forward Facing Seats Jerry Spears, Tracey Christianson, Christian DeVoll, WSTIP and Mike Burress, Community Transit For the Washington State Transit Insurance Pool Quarterly Board Meeting, March 25, 2014
Overview of the Situation • New Flyer letter concerning the forward facing seats
Three Lens Situational Review • Operational/risk assessment • Legal analysis • Engineering Controls Distributed in March 7, 2014 Special Edition of Transaction http://mad.ly/c53494 -
Operational/Risk Funding If Seats are Removed, What are the effects? • On grant funding? • On customer satisfaction/capacity • Is this the only risk/are we creating new risks? • Is this only a New Flyer Risk?
Potential Solutions • Community Transit’s solution, Mike Burress, Risk Manager, Community Transit • Spokane Transit, Mike Toole, Safety and Security Manager, Spokane Transit • King County Metro
Options Considered • Doing Nothing • Seat belts • Case Forensics Ideas • Q’straintQ’pod
Recall Potential • Overview of Efforts • What is the Board’s appetite for moving forward with a recall effort via (options): • Class action suit – preliminary estimate $100,000 • Potential partners: California and Ohio pools • Pushing a federal recall
Questions Jerry Spears jerry@wstip.org 360 786 1624 Tracey Christianson tracey@wstip.org 360 786 1628 Chris DeVoll chris@wstip.org 360 786 1632