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Comprehensive Highway Work Zone Safety Training Program

This program offers training in common hazards and conditions focusing on worker safety in highway work zones. It covers 14 topics including falls, flagging, and health hazards with interactive demos and multilingual materials.

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Comprehensive Highway Work Zone Safety Training Program

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  1. FHWA Work-Zone Training & Guidelines Development Grant May 4, 2007 SCOH Technical Meeting

  2. Laborer’s Health & Safety Fund of North America (LHSFNA) • Scott Scheider (202-628-5465) • American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) • Brad Sant (202-289-4434 X308) • National Asphalt Pavement Assoc. (NAPA) • Una Connolly (301-731-4748 X126)

  3. Operating Engineers International Union • Emmett Russell (202-778-2672) • James E. Bryden, PE • 518-439-2378 • Laborers-AGC Education & Training Fund • John Le Conche (860-974-0800)

  4. EPCRA/SARA Title III • New York Health & Safety Fund • Jim Melius (518-449-1715) • American Assoc. of State Highway & Transportation Officials (AASHTO) • Ken Kobetsky (202-624-5454) • CNA Insurance Company • Todd Hohn (312-822-5309

  5. EPCRA/SARA Title III • Texas Transportation Institute • Jerry L. Ullman (979-845-9908) • FOF Communications • Rod Wolford (202-667-6048) • National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Associate Member) • David Fosbroke (304-285-6010) def2@cdc.gov

  6. EPCRA/SARA Title III • Grant Overview • Highway W-Z Worker Safety Training • Highway W-Z Safety Guidelines Development • Highway W-Z Safety Guidelines Training

  7. Design • Use for Orientation or Refresher Training • Focus on Common Hazards, Conditions, and Injuries • Develop in Modules • Used for ‘Tool-Box’ • Sessions or Formal • Training • Evaluate formative, • process, and outcome • measures

  8. 14 Current Topics • Driving • Electrical Hazards • Emergencies • Excavations • Falls •Flagging Hazards • Health Hazards • Night Work • Noise • Operator Hazards •Working Outdoors •Sprains & Strains • Runovers and Backovers • Struck By

  9. Presentation Media • MacromediaCD • 32-page Trainee Booklet • Toolbox Pamphlets • 14x20 Color Flip Books • 42-page Instructor Guide The complete program comes on CD and free web download. http://wzsafety.tamu.edu

  10. Multi-Lingual • English • Spanish • Portuguese • Audio files “speak” the slides so a bilingual instructor is not necessary. • Presenter can switch instantly among English, Spanish, and Portuguese. • Most print products come in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

  11. Demonstrations • Interactive presentation contains 8 demos: • Stopping Distances • Electrical Contacts • Equipment Blind Spots • Placement of TTC Devices • Struck-by & Flying Objects • Noise • Night visibility • Trenching • Heat Stress • Lifting

  12. + • Temporary Traffic Control • Expanded Night Work Module • ITC-Internal traffic Control • Disaster Response 4 New Topics

  13. The NEW Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse!

  14. Work Zone Clearinghouse • Primary tasks – • 1. Update website infrastructure (hardware & software) • 2. Update and expand content • 3. Maintain Clearinghouse research and operations • 4. Collect, develop and disseminate work zone safety information • 5. Develop and conduct educational and training programs • 6. Develop and conduct outreach and marketing activities • 7. Evaluate, track and report on Clearinghouse progress and success • 8. Work with FHWA to gather and disseminate work zone safety materials and statistics

  15. It is the . . . • World’s largest “cyber-library” of information on road construction safety: • Best practices • Laws and regulations • Public awareness campaigns • Work zone products

  16. They offer . . . • Training & educational materials • Accident & fatality data • Over 100,000 users each year • Free, customized research • www. Workzonesafety.org

  17. American Road & Transportation Builders Association 1219 28th St. NW Washington, D.C. 20007 Bob Laramore, PHR, CPEA blaramore@artba.org (202) 289-4434

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