Sentences with phrase «engineers for sleep apnea»

Democratic lawmakers from New York and New Jersey are introducing legislation Thursday to force federal transportation officials to implement a rule to test train engineers for sleep apnea.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on federal transportation authorities to complete a review of which railroad systems are currently testing engineers for sleep apnea and which ones aren't.

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Months after the deadly September train crash inside Hoboken Terminal, in which the engineer responsible was found to have sleep apnea, less than half of NJ Transit's locomotive engineers and a small number of conductors and signalmen have been screened for the disorder.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is demanding that the federal Department of Transportation reverse its decision to derail new rules that would have required all railroad engineers to be tested for sleep apnea.

U.S. officials are abandoning plans to require sleep apnea screening for truck drivers and train engineers — a decision that safety experts say puts millions of lives at risk.