WORK ZONE SAFETY GRANTS

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WORK ZONE SAFETY GRANTS

• DR. MORRIS OLIVER
• February 21, 2007

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Overview of the WZ Safety Grant Program

• Sect 1409 SAFETEA-LU nonprofit and not-for-profit
  organizations to provide training to prevent and
  reduce work zone injuries and fatalities
• Area 1. Construction worker training
• Area 2. Guideline development
• Area 3. Guideline training for State and local
  governments, transportation agencies, and other
  groups.
• 4 years and subject to the Federal-aid highway
  obligation limitation. The Federal share is 80.

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AWARDEES

• Laborers Health Safety Fund/ARTBA
• ATSSA
• Wayne State University
• Illinois Institute of Technology

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LABORERS/ARTBA

• Amount 4M
• Key Staff Scott Schneider
• Time 2 years 2 option years
• Focus areas 1, 2, and 3
• Multilingual, hands-on
• Key areas

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LABORERS/ARTBA

• Key areas-
• Struck by, night work
• Sprains and strains
• Hazards of Weather
• Temporary Traffic Control
• ITS Applications
• Disaster Response
• Interactive Presentation Demos

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ATSSA

• Amount 12M
• Key Staff Donna Clark
• Time 2 years 2 option years
• Focus areas 1, 2, and 3
• Classroom
• Key areas

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ATSSA

• Key Areas Area 1
• Flagger Instructor Training Traffic Control
  Technician Traffic Control Supervisor Nighttime
  Traffic Control Emergency Traffic Control Law
  Enforcement Officer Utility Traffic Control and
  What Every Supervisor Should Know.

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ATSSA

• Area 2 (Guidelines- Gap and needs)
• positive protection
• high-visibility garments
• additional areas TBD

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ATSSA

• Area 3 Training
• Traffic Control Design Specialists Urban Work
  Zone Design
• Work Zone Strategies
• Analytical Tools for Work Zone Planning and
• Pedestrian and Bicycle Considerations in Work
  Zones

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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY

• Amount 400K
• Key Staff Dr. Tapan Datta
• Time 2 years
• Focus areas 2 and 3
• Key area Utility Work Zone Issues

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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY

• Key areas-
• State-of-the-art/practice policy review
• Gap study and needs assessment of existing
  utility wz guidelines and training.
• Develop utility wz safety guidelines and a
  national level utility wz worker safety training
  program curriculum.

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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

• Amount 750K
• Key Staff Dr. Jonathan Shi, Z Li Mark Snyder
• Time 2 years 2 option years
• Focus areas 2 and 3
• Key area Work Zone Safety Audits

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ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

• Audits qualitatively estimate potential road
  safety issues and identify improvement
  opportunities
• Dan Ryan Reconstruction project - initial case
  study
• Develop WZ Safety Audit Training Program

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Other WZ Grant InformationCLEARINGHOUSE

• Sect 1410. National nonprofit foundation
• Assembling and disseminating, electronically or
  otherwise wz information
• Key Staff Brad Sant (ARTBA),
• Jerry Ullman (TTI), Lisa McCluskey (program
  manager)
• Time 4 years
• 3.5M
• www.workzonesafety.org