Maintenance Section
Each maintenance section should have emergency preparedness plans in place. These plans should include:
- 24 hour contact information for:
- Maintenance section employees
- Maintenance section employee emergency contacts
- District office response personnel
- Area office response personnel
- Division response personnel
- Maintenance section personnel from adjacent sections
- Public Information Officer
- Law enforcement dispatch centers
- Written plan to ensure law enforcement has latest TxDOT contact information
- Methodology to ensure employee accountability for emergency response
- Planned pre-event meetings with law enforcement and other response agencies
- Inclement weather plans, if applicable, to include
- Snow and Ice Control Plan in accordance with the
- Hurricane procedures, including H-120 hour checklists
- Flood response procedures
- Traffic accident response procedures
- Hazardous material spill response procedures
- Highway Condition Reporting System update procedures
- Designation of personnel to be notified
- Designation of a recommended minimum of three authorized HCRS users to update conditions during and after an event
- Procedures to notify those HCRS users of conditions to be updated
- FHWA notification procedures using in accordance with the
- Designation of personnel to be notified
- Procedures to notify those users of conditions to be reported
- Documentation procedures
- Designation of personnel to take photographic documentation
- Designation of personnel to ensure correct task numbers are used for various charges
- 24 hour scheduling - typically two crews (day and night) working 12 hour shifts
- Scheduling of crews for designated shifts
- Assignment of dispatch duties for designated shifts
- 24 hour access issues - all employees have ability to access necessary facilities, equipment, and materials
- Staffing plans during pandemic flu
- Procedures to ensure appropriate materials are on hand in sufficient quantities for various emergencies.