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Work Zone Safety Grants

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Contact Information: Dr. Morris Oliver, morris.oliver@dot.gov

Slide 1. Work Zone Safety Grants

Dr. Morris Oliver

February 21, 2007

Slide 2. 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%.

Slide 3. Awardees


  • Laborer's Health & Safety Fund/ARTBA
  • ATSSA
  • Wayne State University
  • Illinois Institute of Technology

Slide 4. Laborer's/ARTBA


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

Slide 5. Laborer's/ARTBA

Key areas -

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

Slide 6. ATSSA


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

Slide 7. 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.

Slide 8. ATSSA

Area 2 (Guidelines - Gap and needs)

  • positive protection;
  • high-visibility garments;
  • additional areas TBD

Slide 9. 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

Slide 10. Wayne State University


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

Slide 11. 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.

Slide 12. 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

Slide 13. 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

Slide 14. Other WZ Grant Information: Clearinghouse


  • 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

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