Did you bother to read the FRA link. I had already searched the FRA site long before. The title of your link is "Rail Crew Resource Management (CRM): The Business Case for CRM Training in the Railroad Industry ". So "our" government is already trying to economically justify a program that will probably become a federal regulation at some point. Do you know of any federal regulation that doesn't come with a cost? And associated paperwork and fines?

Read just the summary:

"Crew Resource Management (CRM) is a human factors training process that has been employed in the commercial aviation industry for over 25 years. During that time period, CRM has been credited with contributing to a marked decrease in human factors-caused accidents. Military teams, commercial shipping crews, surgical teams, nuclear power operators, and offshore drilling crews have all since employed forms of CRM training to address relative increases in human factors accidents compared to mechanical- or equipment-based accident causes.
This study uses utility analysis to quantify the anticipated benefits to the railroad industry if CRM training were to be more broadly adopted. The research team tested the utility analysis model using collected airline industry data and then applied it to actual and estimated data from the railroad industry. The study found that CRM training can be expected to have net positive benefits at both the industry and individual railroad level by reducing the overall costs associated with human factors accidents. This result was derived by taking into account mean values for the number of human factors accidents, number trained, reported costs of accidents, and costs of training. Additional benefits from improved crew coordination and cost savings from reduced litigation, while not quantified in this study, would add to the overall benefits of sustained railroad CRM training programs."

This sounds like bureaucratic gobbledy-goop written by some "college boys" trying to justify their job. Don't get me wrong - I am all for any new or changed regulation that has a real value in increasing safety in the rail industry, and a real resulting increase in safety with a reasonable mandate should always result in an economic benefit to the railroads.

The FRA and NTSB seem to be pushing Crew Resource Management without actually providing the sample program itself. It would appear that other than self-congratulating articles being published by the FRA, you have to hire a (expensive) consultant to even consider the program.

I believe that the "program" is nothing more than a politically correct formalization of the good working practices that have been historically followed by rails who did practice "Safety First".

Wikipedia, sadly, does a better job than the FRA is describing it - link: Wikipedia CRM

How long will it be before the FRA requires every job briefing to be recorded on a federal from? And I'm sure the NTSB will want them electronically recorded so they can determine the cause of an accident .... Does anyone remember when crews used to have "job briefings" as part of normal everyday good working practices, but we didn't know what it was because the term hadn't been invented yet?