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- 1. Construction Safety Talks Night Some Things To Know Before You Give Your Talk. Paving On average, 130 workers die each year in road construction activities. No. 79 • Pedestrian Workers Struck-by Traffic - 23% • Pedestrian Workers Struck-by Construction Vehicles - 18% • Work Zone Vehicle Operator and Occupant (e.g. Rollovers) - 18% How This Talk • Highway Travel Traffic Accidents - 15% Applies To My Crew: The main hazards in a work zone are: 1. Construction equipment working within the work zone 2. Construction equipment entering or leaving the work zone 3. General vehicular traffic passing through the work zone Things we can do protect ourselves. • Use highly visible and reflective apparel, including vests (minimum), hard hats, armbands, and gloves. It is your responsibility to ensure the apparel is maintained to preserve its highly visible and reflective characteristics. Frequent washing is needed. Check with your supervisor when you feel replacement is needed. • Consider the use of strobe lights within vests and/or on hard hats to further increase your visibility to drivers at night. • Know where you are in relation to the traffic areas. Never assume a driver sees you because he or she is “looking” at you. They may not see you! • Stay alert to back-up alarms and protect yourself from backing equipment by stopping what you’re doing until the danger passes. • Do not drive machines, equipment, or vehicles you are not trained and authorized to operate. • When traveling in work zones stay as far away from traffic, both inside and outside the work zone, as possible. Avoid walking adjacent to trucks and equipment in use. Watch your speed. • Avoid walking in the vehicle's travel lanes inside or outside the work zone. Do not cross highway lanes that are outside the confines of the work zone. © 2003 Liberty Mutual Group – All Rights Reserved 1
- 2. • Notify supervisors of any traffic control devices that are out of alignment or not functioning as designed. If authorized and it is safe to do so, make the repairs or adjustments. • When traveling in front of or behind an occupied vehicle or piece of equipment get the operators attention, visually or audibly, confirmed by a wave or gesture from the operator, before proceeding. • Never ride on equipment or in vehicles that are not designed for passengers. (e.g. in back of a pickup, an extra rider on a roller, holding onto the side of any equipment, etc.) Other things can be done to keep us safe, including: • Maintaining and cleaning traffic control devices so their reflective nature is maximized. • Ensuring truck mounted attenuators (TMA) are moved as the work progresses. This must be done by the authorized employee responsible for this equipment. • Ensuring adequate lighting is provided for the site, and located so it minimizes the impact of glare on on-coming traffic. • Notifying supervision of ALL near miss incidents associated with vehicles. This will help identify areas where improvements are needed, before they result in an accident. Try This For Show And Tell! Have a worker stand behind a dump truck, in the center. Instruct this worker to walk straight back until the driver signals that s/he can see the worker in both mirrors. String caution tape from this worker to the rear corners of each side of the truck. This is the dump trucks’ blind spot. Questions You Can Use To Get Them Talking: • Who is responsible for fixing traffic control devices that have been blown over or hit by a vehicle? • Has anyone seen a near miss incident involving a vehicle or piece of paving equipment? Attended By: The illustrations, instructions and principles contained in the material are general in scope and, to the best of our knowledge, current at the time of publication. No attempt has been made to interpret any referenced codes, standards or regulations. Please refer to the appropriate code, standard or regulation making authority for interpretation or clarification.