Roadway Safety: Instructor Manual

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A manual that helps a trainer provide information on a variety of roadway hazards, such as electrical, falls, slips and trips and ergonomics. Part of a collection. Click on the 'collection' button to access the other items.
2002

This document is one in a program produced under an OSHA grant by a consortium of the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund N.A, the International Union of Operating Engineers, the American Road and Transportation Builders Assn, and the National Asphalt Pavement Assn. All of the documents from this set that are on eLCOSH can be found by clicking on Job Site, Heavy construction, and scrolling to the Street & highway heading. Or to download a complete version of the computerized program, go to https://www.workzonesafety.org/.

How Can Road Workers Be Struck?

Tools and materials are two major hazards:

Use point of operation guarding on portable hand tools.
Use chain saw safety program.
Assess and use PPE. To avoid being struck or crushed by materials:
Keep workers out of lifting areas, from beneath loads.
Use safe hoisting and rigging practices.
Use safe methods for rigging, hoisting, and setting steel plates, jersey barriers, manhole frames, and manhole covers.
Use PPE — hard hats, footwear, eye protection.

Fig. SC-1B. Keep workers from beneath loads.

Fig. SC-1A. Tools and materials are two major hazards that can strike or crush workers.

Notes:

Ask trainees: What percentage of the injuries are struck/crushed? (About 17% of all serious injuries in highway work involve workers being struck by things other than equipment. Another 3% are workers being crushed between objects. Together, these account for more than one-fifth of all serious injuries in highway work.)

What type of injuries do they get (fractures)?

Ask trainees: What kinds of things could you get hit by on our site? (Take examples from trainees.) How can we avoid this problem?

Operators should never swing loads over workers, traffic, or pedestrians.

Trees and equipment maintenance are hazards. To avoid being struck by trees:

Restrict worker access during felling, trimming, loading.
Falling Object Protective Structures (FOPS) on equipment.
Use safe hoisting, rigging for logs and limbs.

To avoid being struck by equipment parts:

Lockout/tagout/hazardous energy control during maintenance, repair, cleaning, and inspection.

Fig. SC-2B. Lock out and tag out during maintenance.

Fig. SC-2A. Trees and equipment maintenance are hazards that can crush or strike workers.

Notes:

Ask trainees: What are some other items that we haven't discussed that can strike or crush workers in road work? (Answers include falling objects on bridge work, flying materials like plywood caught in the wind, rocks flying out from tires.)

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