§214.313. Responsibility of individual roadway workers.
49 C.F.R. § 214.313
Each roadway worker is responsible for following the on-track safety rules of the railroad upon which the roadway worker is located.
A roadway worker shall not foul a track except when necessary for the performance of duty.
Each roadway worker is responsible to ascertain that on-track safety is being provided before fouling a track.
Each roadway worker may refuse any directive to violate an on-track safety rule, and shall inform the employer in accordance with § 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.
Notes, amendments, and revision history
Source
Source: 61 FR 65976, Dec. 16, 1996, unless otherwise noted.
Authority
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20102-20103, 20107, 21301-21302, 31304; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.
Source
Source: 57 FR 28127, June 24, 1992, unless otherwise noted.