Work Zone Safety Newsletter Special Edition: Training and Courses

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Work Zone Safety Trainings and Courses

Welcome to the Work Zone Management Special Edition newsletter. Here you will find a variety of courses and trainings that are currently available from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UI-UC), Oklahoma State University (OSU), and Iowa State University (ISU). These courses, which were produced under the Federal Highway Administration's Work Zone Safety Grant Program, are organized by target audience and include links to additional resources. Note that the hyperlinks below will take you to our partners’ websites, and further clicking may be necessary to get to the specific course. All courses are available at no cost to public agencies, and most are either free or available at minimal cost to private industry representatives. We hope you find these resources useful.

Construction/Field Workers

ARTBA

OSHA 10-Hour

Learn to recognize and prevent hazards and situations faced by roadway workers.

Roadway Safety Plus

Access tailored 2-hour safety courses.

Preventing Runovers and Backovers (Internal Traffic Control Procedures)

Learn how to safely separate trucks and heavy machinery from workers and create an internal traffic control plan.

ATSSA

Traffic Control Technician

Learn concepts, techniques, and basics on how to install and remove temporary traffic control devices in a work zone.

Flagger in Training

Learn to become an effective flagger and understand the importance of proper flagger operations.

Maintenance and Short Duration Activities

Learn about typical safety applications that apply to short duration activities and the characteristics of projects that are most suited for consideration of exposure control measures.

Managers/Supervisors

ATSSA

Minimizing Worker Exposure in Highway Work Zones Through the Use of Positive Protection and Other Strategies

Learn when and where to use positive protection devices along with alternative control methods.

Traffic Control Supervisor

Learn to design a temporary traffic control setup and effectively supervise a team in the field.

Designers/Engineers

ATSSA

Designing Temporary Traffic Control Zones for Pedestrian Accessibility

Learn to identify pedestrian accessibility requirements and apply them to highway work zones.

Developing and Implementing Successful Transportation Management Plans

Learn to develop an effective work zone transportation management plan (TMP).

Smarter Work Zone Intelligent Transportation Systems

Learn to coordinate projects with agencies using ITS technology to support work zone management and operations.

Traffic Control Design Specialist

Learn to effectively design, manage, and evaluate the use of temporary traffic control plans in work zones.

Temporary Traffic Control Considerations for Urban Work Zones

Learn to implement an effective work zone in populated and congested areas.

Work Zone Data Collection

Learn to successfully collect and analyze work zone safety-related data.

Work Zone Road Safety Audits

Understand the purpose and procedures of a work zone road safety audit (RSA).

Work Zone Strategies

Learn about non-typical work zone design strategies aimed at improving mobility and safety.

Work Zone Traffic Impact Analysis

Learn about the different types of analytical tools that support a work zone analysis.

Designers/Engineers (Cont.)

UI-UC

Work Zone Traffic Management Analysis Using Analytical Methods

Receive hands-on training about the basic analytical methods to compute work zone performance measures.

Upcoming Courses

Check back in the next three months for more information on these upcoming courses.

OSU

Implementing Safe Work Zone Operations Strategies for Managers

Learn the tools and strategies to reduce the probability and severity of an incident in flagged, mobile, short duration, short term, and incident response operations.

Instructing the "Implementing Safe Work Zone Operations Strategies Management Course"

Learn how to instruct the above "Implementing Safe Work Zone Operations Strategies for Managers" course.

ISU

Development and Application of Work Zone Crash Modification Factors

Learn how to apply existing CMF for work zones.

Contact

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