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)?
Level __: Quarter Life Overhaul
What is C (Level C)?
Name of CTA's acting president, who started her full-time CTA career in the Safety Department.
Who is Nora Leerhsen?
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?
Level __: Mid-Life Overhaul
What is D (Level D)?
Two of the four stations that were modernized during the Red Purple Modernization (RPM) project.
What is Lawrence, Argyle, Bryn Mawr, and/or Berwyn?
RETS
Rail Engineering & Technical Services
CTA's agency-wide document describing how it establishes and maintains safety.
What is the Agency Safety Plan (ASP)?
Colors of CTA's new safety logo.
What are blue, red, and white?
The first rail car series to fully complete Safety & Security Certification.
What is the 7000 series?
Which CTA tower was dubbed the busiest tower in the world when it was built?
What is Tower 18?
MMIS
What is the Maintenance Management Information System?
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?
MMIS code given for quarter-life overhauls.
What is MMIS 7777?
Year that the Safety & Security Department split into two separate departments.
What is 2009?
SMS
What is Safety Management System?
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
Year that the Rail Fleet Management Plan and Rail Car Maintenance Plan were last updated.
What is 2022?
Total amount that the Red Line Extension (RLE) project is projected to cost.
What is $5.7 billion?
ASP
What is Agency Safety Plan?