[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 49CFR214.313]



[Page 155]

 

                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

       CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                             TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 214_RAILROAD WORKPLACE SAFETY--Table of Contents

 

                   Subpart C_Roadway Worker Protection

 

Sec. 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 

Sec. 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.