['Transportation Security']
['Transportation Security']
08/28/2024
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The most important action a carrier should consider is the development and implementation of a security plan. A risk management model can be used to assess security risks and develop appropriate measures to reduce or eliminate risk.
Scope
This information applies to motor carriers.
Regulatory citations
- None
Key definitions
- Motor carrier: A for-hire motor carrier or a private motor carrier. The term includes a motor carrier’s agents, officers, and representatives as well as employees responsible for hiring, supervising, training, assigning, or dispatching of drivers and employees concerned with the installation, inspection, and maintenance of motor vehicle equipment and/or accessories.
Summary of requirements
Most risk management models utilize the following steps:
- Identify areas of concern and partners that may be affected or with whom coordination may be appropriate;
- Assemble detailed information on system operations;
- Identify control points where interventions can reduce or eliminate risk;
- Select and prioritize options to meet identified security goals;
- Take action to implement the strategy;
- Verify implementation of the strategy; and
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the strategy to determine whether additional actions are necessary.
A carrier should:
- List the materials it handles and identify those materials with the potential to be used as weapons of mass destruction or targets of opportunity.
- Review its current activities and operations from a transportation security perspective. Questions to ask include:
- What are we doing now?
- What could go wrong?
- What can we do differently?
- Consider how to reduce the risks identified.
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