PURPOSE: This rule prevents excessive mental and physical strain and fatigue which results from remaining too long at exacting tasks. This rule prescribes the maximum safe number of working hours an employee can be required or allowed to operate a train on the mainline or to directly control the operations a train on the mainline: on a fixed guideway transit system. This rule does not restrict a transit system from adopting and enforcing additional or more stringent requirements not inconsistent with this rule.

1. (1) This rule shall apply to every employee who operates a train on the main line or is directly involved in controlling the operations of a train on the main line of a fixed guideway transit system. No transit system shall require or allow any of these employee to perform work in excess of the allowable hours established in this rule.
2. (2) No employee shall be required or allowed to continue on duty or to go on duty until the employee has had at least ten (10) consecutive hours off duty, if that employee has been continuously on duty for twelve (12) hours or more.

3. (3) Time on duty shall commence when an employee begins to work or is required to be in readiness to work and continues until the time the employee is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work. Time on duty shall include:

   1. (A) Interim periods of rest less than or equal to one (1) hour; and
   2. (B) Time spent in the transportation of an employee to a duty assignment, except that time spent transporting an employee from a duty point of final release shall not be counted.
4. (4) No employee shall be required or allowed to continue on duty or go on duty unless s/he has had at least eight (8) consecutive hours off duty during the preceding twenty-four
5. (24) hours.
6. (5) When a situation requiring the extended service of an employee covered by this rule occurs, which is both unforeseeable and beyond the control of the transit system, the employee may be on duty in excess of the twelve (12)-hour limit but shall not be required or allowed to continue on duty in excess of fifteen (15) hours. Under the provisions of this section, an employee shall not work in excess of the twelve (12)-hour limit more than two (2) days in a seven (7)-day period.

7. (6) The transit system shall establish and maintain at one (1) or more locations where employees covered by this rule report on or off duty, a written hours of service log which shall record the hours of service of these employees. The transit system shall keep this log current for each of these employee showing the time of the last change of duty status of the employee. Any supervisor making an entry on behalf of any of these employee must initial such an entry. For each of these employees, the hours of service log shall include at least the following information:

   1. (A) Employee’s signature and badge number;
   2. (B) Amount of rest since last duty in hours and minutes, except that if the amount of rest is in excess of twelve (12) hours an entry of “12+” is sufficient;
   3. (C) The time at which the employee signs in for duty;
   4. (D) The time at which the employee is off duty; and
   5. (E) Total time on duty in hours and minutes.
8. (7) The transit system shall retain in its custody and make available to the division for inspection the hours of service log for a period of one (1) year after the last entry is made in each daily log.

AUTHORITY: section 622.027, RSMo Supp. Supp. 1997.* Emergency rule filed Feb. 5, 1993, effective Feb. 15, 1993, expired June 14, 1993. Original rule filed Nov. 4, 1992, effective June 7, 1993. Emergency amendment filed June 17, 1993, effective June 27, 1993, expired Oct. 24, 1993. Emergency amendment filed Oct. 13, 1993, effective Oct. 24, 1993, expired Feb. 20, 1994. Emergency amendment filed Feb. 10, 1994, effective Feb. 20, 1994, expired June 14, 1994. Emergency amendment filed June 2, 1994, effective June 14, 1994, expired Oct. 11, 1994. Emergency amendment filed Sept. 30, 1994, effective Oct. 12, 1994, expired Jan. 10, 1995. Amended: Filed June 2, 1994, effective Dec. 30, 1994. Amended: Filed June 22, 1998, effective Feb. 28, 1999.

*Original authority 1985, amended 1993, 1995.