To improve employee safety, ITD has switched their old orange vests to new high-visibility yellow vests following employee recommendations. Links to videos that explain the switch and the new vests … [Read more...] about ITD Shifts to Yellow
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Investigation of Flashing and Intensity Characteristics for Vehicle-Mounted Warning Beacons
Reducing the potential for crashes involving front line service workers and passing vehicles is important for increasing worker safety in work zones and similar locations. Flashing yellow warning … [Read more...] about Investigation of Flashing and Intensity Characteristics for Vehicle-Mounted Warning Beacons
Determination of Optimal Intensities and Periods for Vehicle-Mounted Warning Lights Using Field Experiments
Increasing the safety of work zones and other locations where frontline service workers are present is important to reduce the potential for crashes involving passing vehicles and the workers. … [Read more...] about Determination of Optimal Intensities and Periods for Vehicle-Mounted Warning Lights Using Field Experiments
Work Zone Safety Sign Package Program Winners
The work zone safety sign package program was developed to assist smaller cities with the introduction or upgrade of their temporary traffic control devices to meet current standards for compliance. … [Read more...] about Work Zone Safety Sign Package Program Winners
Beyond Compliance
Oldcastle, an industry leader in aggregate and ready-mix production, implements a variety of best practices that go beyond rules and regulations to maintain and maximize work zone safety. This article … [Read more...] about Beyond Compliance
Protecting Workers with Smart E-Vest
This paper describes the design and evaluation of an alerting vest for construction workers. Four different alerts and modalities were compared through an empirical study. We measured the response … [Read more...] about Protecting Workers with Smart E-Vest