September 12, 2025 | C3RS, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, August 23, 2025) Two and a half years after a derailed train spewed toxic gases across eastern Ohio, none of the nation’s largest freight railroads have fulfilled promises to join a voluntary federal close call...
September 4, 2025 | C3RS, News, Railroad Safety, Top News
An investigation released last week on railroad safety from the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland — later broadcast on NPR, published in newspapers such as The Washington Post, and distributed by the Associated Press — quotes two...
February 10, 2025 | AFL-CIO, C3RS, East Palestine-NS, News, Top News, TTD
In March 2023, leaders of America’s largest railroads promised to voluntarily adopt the Confidential Close Call Reporting System in the weeks after the tragedy in East Palestine. C3RS is a safety program that allows railroad workers to confidentially report near-miss...
February 6, 2025 | C3RS, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, PSR, Railroad Safety, TTD
(Source: Press release from the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, February 4, 2025) On February 3, rail union leaders gathered for a virtual media briefing to call for safety reforms across the freight rail industry on the two-year anniversary of the toxic...
November 22, 2024 | C3RS, Legislation, News, Railroad Safety, Top News
The BLET is urgently working to secure passage of the House Railroad Safety Enhancement Act of 2024 (H.R. 8996) before Congress adjourns. In a Take Action alert issued today, BLET members and their families are asked to use the Take Action tool on the BLET National...
September 8, 2024 | BNSF, C3RS, News, Railroad Safety, Top News
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) released the results of its safety culture survey at the BNSF Railway on August 28. The FRA found that company leaders routinely say that safety is a core value, but lower-level managers still prioritize keeping the trains...
September 4, 2024 | C3RS, News, Railroad Safety, Top News
The BLET wasted no time in making working conditions safer for new members at COASTER by securing participation in C3RS. NCTD image _____________________ The BLET has hit the ground running at COASTER and is already making the workplace safer for its newest members....
August 28, 2024 | BNSF, C3RS, FRA, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: Associated Press, August 28, 2024) Freight railroad BNSF is generally striving to improve safety on a consistent basis, but that message doesn’t always reach front-line workers who often don’t feel comfortable reporting safety concerns for fear of being...
July 29, 2024 | C3RS, News, Railroad Safety, Top News
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy (left) and FRA Administrator Amit Bose testified during the July 23 hearing. T&I Committee images ____________________ A BLET-backed rail safety bill was the focus of a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and...
July 24, 2024 | 2-man Crews, C3RS, East Palestine-NS, Headlines, Legislation, Railroad Safety, Train Length
(Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 23, 2024) New bipartisan legislation to improve railroad safety following the East Palestine derailment was announced Tuesday as a House subcommittee held a three-hour hearing on what steps were needed to prevent a repeat...
