Transportation
Low
Low Risk of Terrorist Attacks
- Identify required equipment; identify resources available through augmentation.
- Review and update transportation annexes and SOPs.
- Refine and exercise pre-planned Protective Measures.
- Regularly assess vulnerabilities of transportation infrastructure.
- Recommend and take mitigation and security measures for the transportation infrastructure.
- Institutionalize a process to ensure that all facilities and regulated sectors are regularly assessed for vulnerabilities to terrorist attacks, and all reasonable measures are taken to mitigate these vulnerabilities.
- Ensure existing security measures are in place and functioning such as fences, locks, camera surveillance, intruder alarms, and lighting. Identify those additional security measures and resources that can enhance security.
- Develop a terrorist and security awareness program and provide information and educate employees on security standards and procedures..
- Advise all personnel at each facility to report the presence of unknown personnel, unidentified vehicles, vehicles operated out of the ordinary, abandoned parcels and packages, and other suspicious activities.
- Incorporate security awareness and information into public education programs and notifications to emergency response organizations.
- Ensure contingency and business continuity plans are current and include a response to terrorist threats.
- Ensure personnel receive proper training on the HSAS and specific preplanned department or agency Protective Measures.
- Submit PEIRS Report information to 911 Center.
Guarded
General Risk of Terrorist AttacksTake all actions from previous levels, plus:
- Update required equipment; update resources available through augmentation.
- Establish liaison with each station or facility served to coordinate measures that may be necessary upon increase in Threat Level.
- Review all operations plans, personnel details, and logistics requirements that pertain to implementing a higher Threat Level.
- Review and ensure adequacy of personal and ID issuance and control procedures.
- Inspect emergency supplies to ensure equipment is in good working order.
- Provide the public with any information that would strengthen its ability to act appropriately.
- Submit PEIRS Report information to 911 Center.
Elevated
Significant Risk of Terrorist AttacksTake all actions from previous levels, plus:
- Alert key personnel of possible emergency duty.
- Review assignments and recall list with all personnel.
- Check readiness of all equipment, supplies, and facilities.
- Increase surveillance of critical locations.
- Correct deficiencies in equipment and/or facilities.
- Communicate increased threat information to those security and staff personnel that have a need to know.
- Test emergency and security communications procedures and protocols.
- Increase frequency of facility and equipment inspections and security checks.
- Check designated unmanned and remote sites at more frequent intervals for signs of unauthorized entry, suspicious packages, or unusual activities.
- Carefully inspect all mail and packages coming into the facility and do not open suspicious packages.
- Network with local law enforcement intelligence units and liaison with other departments as appropriate.
- Increase security spot checks of vehicles and persons entering facilities.
- Ensure that a company or facility response can be mobilized appropriate to the increased security level.
- Review with all employees the operations plans, personnel safety, security details, and logistics requirements that pertain to implementing increased security levels. Review notification/ recall lists.
- Confirm availability of security resources that can assist with 24/7 coverage as applicable.
- Increase routine checks of unattended vehicles, scrutiny of packages and vehicles, and monitor critical facilities and key infrastructure.
- Ensure all communications means and systems are operational.
- Develop and implement a schedule for increasing the frequency of inspections of specific areas such as telephone booths, restrooms, garbage containers, and all public areas.
- Periodically inspect inside and outside of regularly used facilities for suspicious packages.
- Provide PEIRS Report information to the 911 center.
High
High Risk of Terrorist AttacksTake all actions from previous levels, plus:
- Alert personnel of possible emergency duty.
- Coordinate security efforts with state police/ federal LEAs.
- Restrict access to critical transportation infrastructure facilities to essential personnel only.
- Place off-duty personnel on stand-by.
- Alert auxiliary personnel.
- Review mutual aid agreements with other transportation agencies.
- Activate emergency response plans.
- Physically inspect visitors and randomly inspect their suitcases, parcels, and other containers.
- Reduce facility access point to the absolute minimum necessary for continued operation.
- Restrict access to threatened facilities to essential personnel only.
- Consult with local authorities about control of public roads and accesses that might make the facility more vulnerable to terrorist attack if they were to remain open.
- Erect barriers and obstacles to control direction of traffic flow and protect that terminal, station or other key area/facility from an attack by a parked or moving vehicle.
- Check all security systems such as lighting and alarms to ensure they are functioning.
- Identify the owners of all vehicles parked at command, control, or communications areas or other critical areas/facilities/ and have all vehicles removed that are not identified.
- Limit access to designated facilities to those personnel who have a legitimate and verifiable need to enter the facility.
- Review procedures and make necessary preparations to establish a Command Center where applicable.
- Prepare to execute contingency measures, such as moving to an alternate site or dispersing the workforce.
- Disable all baggage lockers were applicable.
- Restrict access to boarding areas to ticketed passengers only.
- Enforce centralized [parking away from the facilities.
- Submit PEIRS Report information to the 911 center.
Severe
Severe Risk of Terrorist Attacks
Take all actions from previous levels, plus:
- Recall and mobilize emergency work crews.
- Maintain 24 hour operations.
- Begin transportation control procedures for evacuation movement.
- Monitor, redirect, or constrain transportation systems, as appropriate.
- Be prepared to handle emergency transportation requests.
- Increase security patrol activity to the maximum sustainable.
- Implement emergency and continuity plans as appropriate.
- Limit schedule or routing.
- Augment security forces to ensure absolute control of key command, control, and communications centers or areas and other potential target areas.
- Remove unattended, unauthorized vehicles parked within 300 feet of a terminal building or station where passengers load or unload.
- Assign emergency response personnel and pre-position and mobilize specially trained teams or resources.
- Monitor, redirect, or constrain transportation systems.
- Close public and government facilities as appropriate.
- Identify all vehicles within the operational or mission support areas.
- Search all vehicles and their contents before allowing entrance to the facility.
- Control access and implement positive identification of all personnel.
- Frequently check building exteriors and parking areas.
- Minimize all administrative journeys and visits.
- Coordinate the possible closing of public roads and facilities with local authorities.
- Search all suitcases, briefcases, packages, etc, brought into the facility.
- Submit PEIRS Report information to the 911 center.