Take a Benefits to managing health and safety on your construction projects:
- Fewer accidents for you, your employees or other people around you.
- Better morale and efficiency leading to higher productivity
- Better health and safety integration with the public and other contractors
- Better communication on site
- Better working relationships
- Save money
A Safe Work Zone
All work activity on roads, including both construction and non-construction work, must be properly managed at all times. Work areas must be clearly marked and protected with buffers or safety zones. Buffers can prevent vehicles from entering the work space workers and keep people from accidentally walking or moving their equipment into the traffic space. This involves using concrete barriers, cones, flaggers directing traffic, or any other method to protect your work and to allow for an appropriate work space. Regardless of the method being used, all traffic control devices must be visible, recognizable, and understandable.Statistics
According to the National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse:- During peak construction season, approximately 20% of national highway system (NHS) is under construction with more than 3,000 work zones.
- Approximately 12 billion vehicle miles of travel a year will be through active work zones.
- Motorists can expect to encounter an active work zone 1 out of every 100 miles driven on the nation鈥檚 highway system.
- More than 40,000 people are injured each year as a result of crashes in work zones.
- One work zone fatality every 8 hours 鈥� 3 per day
- One work zone injury every 9 minutes 鈥� 160 per day
