you know across the industry to the federal railroad administration as well as other actions like oshca. these recommendations urge the agencies and the industry to do more to protect employees on the railroads, insureing that they are given proper briefings and sufficient information and devices that will protect them in the course of their work. the death of robert luden a little more than a year ago in west haven connecticut tragic death, fully preventible unnecessary, leaving his family and his colleagues without him, just shows how this issue can be a matter of littererally life and death. so i'd like to ask each of you what can be done to make sure that regulators like the fra, it's an agency of government, act on recommendations from the ntsb especially for workers who are often the most in danger? and my view is that there should be consequences for the failure of the fra to act in protecting workers. this issue is national in scope. so i'd like to ask even of you beginning with mr. lonegro, what can be done to compel the fra to follow recommendations of the ntsb and other commo