---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 271.603"
title: "49"
number: "271.603"
heading: "Purpose and scope of a Fatigue Risk Management Program (FRMP)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/271.603"
---

# §271.603. Purpose and scope of a Fatigue Risk Management Program (FRMP).

- (a) **Purpose.** The purpose of an FRMP is to improve railroad safety through structured, proactive processes and procedures a railroad subject to this part develops and implements. A railroad's FRMP shall systematically identify and evaluate the fatigue-related railroad safety hazards on its system, determine the degree of risk associated with each hazard, and manage those risks to reduce the fatigue that its safety-related railroad employees experience and to reduce the risk of railroad accidents, incidents, injuries, and fatalities where the fatigue of any of these employees is a contributing factor.
- (b) **Scope.** A railroad shall:
  - (1) Design its FRMP to reduce the fatigue its safety-related railroad employees experience and to reduce the risk of railroad accidents, incidents, injuries, and fatalities where the fatigue of any of these employees is a contributing factor;
  - (2) Develop its FRMP by conducting a system-wide fatigue-risk analysis that accounts for the varying circumstances of its operations on different parts of its system; and
  - (3) Employ in its FRMP the fatigue risk mitigation strategies the railroad identifies as appropriate to address those varying circumstances.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 87 FR 35673, June 13, 2022, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20103, 20106-20107, 20118-20119, 20156, 21301, 21304, 21311; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 85 FR 9314, Feb. 18, 2020, unless otherwise noted.