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Hard Hat Colors

NYCT has many different groups of people working on or near tracks. Each trade has a different hard hat color, which also shows their trade on their hard hat in black type.

Hard Hat Color Job or Function
Red Infrastructure (Carpentry, plumbing, Escalator, painter, concrete, etc.)
Orange Flagging
Yellow Signals
Dark Green Service Delivery --the merged function of Stations and RTO (Rapid Transit Operations)
Lime Green TIS (Transit information Services)- TV monitors and electronic signs such as PACIS (Public Address Customer Information System)
Dark Blue CED (Car Equipment Division). If a linked train has to be cut, they do the job
Light Blue Track
Gray Third Rail/ Power Distribution
White Supervision. Management and above

 

Last revised 01/21/2011

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