Blind Spots in the Work Zone
Building roads and highways can be dangerous work. Dangers in the work zone come from many sources, but we focused on Blind Spots in our most recent newsletter and wanted to provide more information as well as a preview from our newly updated Work Zone Safety course.
We’ve also found these two websites extremely helpful for aggregating information like policy, best practice and additional resources:
- WorkZoneSafety.org – clearinghouse for tools, resources and status related to Work Zone Safety and they do just that! This is a great place to get answers (or at the very least, the direction where to get answers) to any of your questions about work zone safety.
- FHWA Work Zone Safety Site - dedicated to Work Zone Safety, this FHWA site presents some staggering facts about the complexities around Work Zones as well a wealth of other information like best practices or updates from different agencies and states about what they are doing to make work zones safer.
As we mentioned earlier, Pavia Systems offers an online course on Work Zone Safety that takes folks through common work zone hazards, how to avoid them, other work zone safety practices and traffic control in the work zone.