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Safety Benchmarks

Safety Benchmarks. 1. Never trust approaching traffic. Avoid turning your back to approaching traffic. Safety Benchmarks . Establish an initial block with the first arriving emergency vehicle or fire apparatus. . Safety Benchmarks.

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Safety Benchmarks

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  1. Safety Benchmarks 1. Never trust approaching traffic. • Avoid turning your back to approaching traffic. Best Practices Roadway Incident Scene Safety

  2. Safety Benchmarks • Establish an initial block with the first arriving emergency vehicle or fire apparatus. Best Practices Roadway Incident Scene Safety

  3. Safety Benchmarks • Wear appropriate PPE including ANSI high visibility vests as required by department policy. Best Practices Roadway Incident Scene Safety

  4. Safety Benchmarks • At nighttime incidents turn off all sources of vision impairment to approaching vehicles including vehicle headlights and spotlights. Photo By: Sarah Britain Best Practices Roadway Incident Scene Safety

  5. Safety Benchmarks • Use fire apparatus and police vehicles to initially slow down redirect the flow of moving traffic. Best Practices Roadway Incident Scene Safety

  6. 200’ min Safety Benchmarks • Establish advance warning and adequate transition area traffic control measures upstream of incident to reduce travel speeds of approaching motorists. Best Practices Roadway Incident Scene Safety

  7. Safety Benchmarks • Establish advance warning and adequate transition area traffic control measures upstream of incident to reduce travel speeds of approaching motorists. Best Practices Roadway Incident Scene Safety

  8. Safety Benchmarks • Use traffic cones and/or cones illuminated by flares where safe to do so for sustained highway incident traffic control and direction. Best Practices Roadway Incident Scene Safety

  9. Safety Benchmarks • Assign personnel to monitor approaching traffic and activate an emergency signal if the actions of a motorist do not conform to established traffic control measures in place at the highway scene. Note: The Trooper in this photo is not in a protected location. A safer location would be on the shoulder of the road, beside a piece of apparatus, or at a minimum behind the cone line established to direct the flow of traffic. Another important consideration is for personnel in this position to have a traffic control device such as a flag, stop/slow paddle, or an illuminated flashlight. Best Practices Roadway Incident Scene Safety

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