{"data":{"id":"us/49-cfr-270.403","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"49 CFR 270.403","heading":"Purpose and scope of a Fatigue Risk Management Program (FRMP).","body":"(a) Purpose. The purpose of an FRMP is to improve railroad safety through structured, systematic, proactive processes and procedures that a railroad subject to this part develops and implements to identify and mitigate the effects of fatigue on its employees.\n(b) Scope. A railroad shall:\n(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;\n(2) Develop its FRMP by systematically identifying and evaluating the fatigue-related railroad safety hazards on its system, determining the degree of risk associated with each hazard, and managing those risks to reduce the fatigue that its safety-related railroad employees experience. This system-wide fatigue risk identification and evaluation process must account for the varying circumstances of a railroad's operations on different parts of its system; and\n(3) Employ in its FRMP the fatigue risk mitigation strategies a railroad identifies as appropriate to address those varying circumstances.","path":["Title 49—Transportation","Subtitle B—Other Regulations Relating to Transportation","CHAPTER II—FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","PART 270—SYSTEM SAFETY PROGRAM","Subpart E—Fatigue Risk Management Programs"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-49.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:34Z","sha256":"c48bc7c17177cf895bb213184fb09a527a789033ff858e0c5f9050b2fc985e00","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/49-cfr-270.401","next":"us/49-cfr-270.405"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}