Terracon Safety Policies
This Terracon policy gives every employee the right and responsibility to stop unsafe work
What is Stop Work Authority?
JSA
What is Job Safety Analysis?
This PPE protects your head on active job sites
What is a hard hat?
Texas has this many national forests
What is four? (Angelina, Davy Crockett, Sabine, and Sam Houston—all located in East Texas)
This rule emphasizes being aware of surroundings, hazards, and changing conditions
What is Situational Awareness?
This is what the Permian Basin derives its name from.
What is the Permian geologic period?
This activity is prohibited while driving for work
What is cell phone use?
This requires employees to report unsafe conditions, even if no injury occurred
What is the Incident and Near Miss Reporting?
PPE
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
These are required footwear for many Terracon field activities
What are steel-toe or safety-toe boots?
The Texas Capitol in Austin is the largest in terms of gross square footage of all state capitols (true or false)
What is true? (and is second in total size only to the National Capitol in Washington, D.C.)
This Rule to Live By emphasizes personal accountability for safety decisions
What is Taking Responsibility for your Safety and Others?
An area in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico that is about the size of the state of North Dakota.
What is the Permian Basin?
This Terracon guideline requires pulling before phone use
What is stopping in a safe location before using a mobile device?
This safety requirement applies before beginning any field task or project activity
What is completing a Job Safety Analysis (JSA)?
SWA
What is Stop Work Authority?
This PPE increases visibility around equipment and traffic
What is a high-visibility vest?
The world's first computer chip was produced in Dallas in 1958 by this company
What is Texas Instruments?
This rule applies when working in the field, office, or driving
What is Working Safely at All Times?
During WWI, this area supplied about half of the world's oil and gas production and helped fuel the tanks, ships, and planes the Allied Forces used to ultimately win the war.
What is the Permian Basin?
Hands-free devices do not eliminate this hazard
What is cognitive distraction?
Terracon requires this when hazards change during a task
What is reassessing hazards and updating the JSA?
SDS
What is Safety Data Sheet?
This PPE is required when handling certain environmental samples or chemicals
What are chemical-resistant gloves?
This is Austin, Texas original name
What is Waterloo?
This Rule to Live By reinforces speaking up - even if you're not the supervisor
What is Looking Our for Each Other?
As of November 2024 and according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this city ranks second in the U.S. in per capita personal income.
What is Midland?
(For comparison: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA is #1; San Francisco is #3, New York City is #8)
This month in 2026 is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month?
What is April?
This policy emphasizes that safety takes priority over schedule, cost, or client pressure
What is the Safety First / Safety Over Schedule?
APR
What is Authorized Project Reviewer?
PPE requirements should always be determined by this planning tool
What is Job Safety Analysis (JSA)?
This is named as the state vehicle of Texas
What is a Chuck Wagon?
This rule focuses on following procedures rather than shortcuts
What is Following Company Procedures?
This was the first major oil strike in the Permian and was on land leased from the University of Texas.
What is the Santa Rita #1.
This science-based show tested hands-free driving in a video associated with the April in-house safety training
What is Mythbusters?