Day of Restricted Work Activity [Transportation] Law and Legal Definition
According to 49 CFR 225.5 [Title 49 – Transportation; Subtitle B -- Other Regulations Relating to Transportation; Chapter II -- Federal Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation; Part 225 -- Railroad Accidents/Incidents: Reports Classification, and Investigations], day of restricted work activity means “a day of restricted work activity as described in paragraph (1) of this definition or, if paragraph (1) does not apply, a day of restricted work activity solely for reporting purposes as described in paragraph (2) of this definition; in both cases, the work restriction must affect one or more of the employee's routine job functions (i.e., those work activities regularly performed at least once per week) or prevent the employee from working the full workday that he or she would otherwise have worked. For purposes of this definition, the count of days includes all calendar days, regardless of whether the employee would normally be scheduled to work on those days (e.g., weekend days, holidays, rest days, and vacation days), and begins on the first calendar day after the railroad employee has been examined by a physician or other licensed health care professional (PLHCP) and diagnosed with a work-related injury or illness. In particular, the term means -
(1) Each calendar day that the employee, for reasons associated with his or her condition, works restricted duty (or would have worked restricted duty had he or she been scheduled) if the restriction results from:
(i) A PLHCP's written recommendation to work restricted duty, or
(ii) A railroad's instructions to work restricted duty, if the injury or illness is otherwise reportable; or
(2) A minimum of one calendar day if a PLHCP, for reasons associated with the employee's condition, recommends in writing that the employee work restricted duty for one or more days, but the employee instead works unrestricted (or would have worked unrestricted had he or she been scheduled). This paragraph is intended to take into account "covered data" cases and also those non-covered data cases that are independently reportable for some other reason (e.g., "medical treatment" or "day of restricted work activity"). The requirement to report "a minimum of one calendar day" is intended to give a railroad the discretion to report up to the total number of days recommended by the PLHCP.
Employee human factor includes any of the accident causes signified by the train accident cause codes listed under "Train Operation-Human Factors" in the current "FRA Guide for Preparing Accidents/Incidents Reports," except for those train accident cause codes pertaining to non-railroad workers. For purposes of this definition "employee" includes the classifications of Worker on Duty-Employee, Employee not on Duty, Worker on Duty-Contractor, and Worker on Duty-Volunteer.
Legal Definition list
- Day of Restricted Work Activity [Transportation]
- Day Labor
- Day in Court
- Day Fine
- Day Book
- Day Order
- Day Rule
- Day Trade
- Day Trader
- Day Trading
- Day Treatment Center
