Every year some 20,000 construction workers are injured and an average of 117 are killed in roadway work zones. For paving contractors, effective training is a key part of ensuring workers are able to recognize and mitigate potential safety hazards or unsafe situations.
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To support companies in training their workers, the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) has released “CrewSafety: Work Zone Training”, a series of web-based work zone safety training modules specific to the asphalt road construction industry.
Hands-on demonstrations of the tool will be held at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020, March 10–14, 2020, in Las Vegas.
Worker injuries and fatalities inside a road construction work zone have remained constant over the past few years. CrewSafety was developed in partnership with the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) to fill the need for a comprehensive training system to help address this problem.
The tool includes a “Fundamentals of Internal Traffic Control” module, along with job-specific modules for equipment operators, drivers, laborers, and supervisors.
Learn more at asphaltpavement.org/safety.