Project Description

Sound Transit built the Operations and Maintenance Facility East (OMFE) in the City of Bellevue to support the region’s growing light rail fleet. Sound Transit moved into a new facility and began storing train cars in Bellevue in 2020. The vehicles, which are maintained on-site in the yard, received some on-board systems upgrades in preparation for service and testing of the East Link. The 128,000 sf facility—designed to maintain, store, and deploy up to 96 vehicles—is located along a spur track from the light rail mainline between Wilburton and the Spring District Stations.

JTS was selected to provide safety management for the project. Our staff provided an inspector’s daily report to the resident engineer and Sound Transit construction managers; updated weekly leading indicators workbook; verbally notified staff of any observed safety issues; monitored and documented safety practices of the contractor; reviewed and commented on corrective actions for each contractor’s accident/incident report; and developed root cause analysis and construction work plans, daily reports, and job hazard analyses. JTS performed twice monthly site safety surveillance to cross check for specific tasks or activities; documented monthly site safety audits with each contractor to verify conformance of contract required documentation; prepared and submitted combination site safety reports; and attended owner meetings as well as design build project management team weekly and monthly meetings to report and discuss all safety related issues.

REFERENCE
KBA, Inc. (Prime Consultant); K. Wendell Adams, Senior Project Manager; [email protected]