Safety Documents
When in doubt about a rule, CTA employees check here.
What is the Safety Rule Book?
The name of the federal body that ensures that workers have safe and healthful working conditions free from unlawful retaliation.
What is the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)?
What type of boot are roadway workers prohibited to have for footwear?
What is a steel-toe boot?
Two of the four stations that were modernized during the Red Purple Modernization (RPM) project.
What is Lawrence, Argyle, Bryn Mawr, and/or Berwyn?
PPE
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
Make sure you look at this before handling a chemical! It provides information on the hazards associated with a chemical and proper techniques for handling it.
What is Safety Data Sheet (SDS)?
This is the CTA program for employees to report safety concerns.
What is SafeLine?
What Control Center radio channel do CTA employees call for rail emergencies?
What is Channel 2?
Which CTA tower was dubbed the busiest tower in the world when it was built?
What is Tower 18?
RWIC
What is the Roadway Worker in Charge?
CTA's agency-wide document describing how it establishes and maintains safety.
What is the Agency Safety Plan (ASP)?
A construction standard classification number, also the year Winnie the Pooh was published.
What is 1926?
In this year, CTA's Roadway Worker Protection Manual (RWP) underwent extensive revisions to align with changing federal regulations.
What is 2025?
The first rail car series to fully complete Safety & Security Certification.
What is the 7000 series?
ASP
What is the Agency Safety Plan?
With a clipboard, pencil, and this document, a safety inspector keeps track of identified hazards at a site.
What is a Safety Observation Report?
Safety role that interacts with emergency responders like Chicago Fire Department to ensure that CTA's emergency response is efficient and targeted.
What are Fire & Life Safety Marshals and/or the Emergency Preparedness Officer?
The minimum number of seconds roadway workers should be clear of the rail roadway before the anticipated arrival of a train.
What is 15 seconds?
Year that the Safety & Security Department split into two separate departments.
What is 2009?
CAP
What is Corrective Action Plan?
Every three years, the Illinois Department of Transportation conducts this aptly named safety audit.
What is a triennial audit?
Number of safety teams that the Safety Department has.
What is Five?
Transit System Safety, Occupational Safety & Environment, Safety Programs & Culture, Construction Safety & Engineering, Safety Analytics & Regulatory Oversight
Number of feet from the roadway work group that the "Begin Slow Zone/6 mph" sign must be placed.
What is 250 feet minimum?
Total amount that the Red Line Extension (RLE) project is projected to cost.
What is $5.7 billion?
IL-SSOA
What is Illinois Department of Transportation State Safety Oversight Agency?