djs134
BoM May '06
As some of you know, I manage Highway projects. Working around large equipment is dangerous enough in itself, but when you combine trucks loading and removing material from a project or delivering material to pavers to working along side of live traffic, you have a recipe for disaster.
A couple of weeks ago there was a fatality on an adjacent project. He was performing his duties as an Inspector and was struck and run over by a truck.
This kind of avoidable accident makes us all reevaluate our projects and operations. I just thought that since I was taking the time to remind my staff about the dangers of our type of work that I'd pass the message on to a few others.
Please be cautious when driving through construction zones. We try very hard to balance the need to bring the roads back to serviceable levels and the need to keep traffic flowing. Sometimes safety requirements necessitate the need for "cattle chutes" (concrete barrier each side) or we may choose to work with only delineation (cones, barrels, "big-feet") between us and traffic. Either way, we need the traveling public to keep the speeds to within the Construction Zone speed limits and keep and eye out for equipment and workers.
We know how annoying road work can be, we run into the same thing when we travel. But it has to be done. Traffic loads, especially trucks, put an amazing amount of pressure on the highways.
Anyhow, please, when driving through construction areas, keep in mind that each and every person on those crews has a family that wants them home safely each and every day.
A couple of weeks ago there was a fatality on an adjacent project. He was performing his duties as an Inspector and was struck and run over by a truck.
This kind of avoidable accident makes us all reevaluate our projects and operations. I just thought that since I was taking the time to remind my staff about the dangers of our type of work that I'd pass the message on to a few others.
Please be cautious when driving through construction zones. We try very hard to balance the need to bring the roads back to serviceable levels and the need to keep traffic flowing. Sometimes safety requirements necessitate the need for "cattle chutes" (concrete barrier each side) or we may choose to work with only delineation (cones, barrels, "big-feet") between us and traffic. Either way, we need the traveling public to keep the speeds to within the Construction Zone speed limits and keep and eye out for equipment and workers.
We know how annoying road work can be, we run into the same thing when we travel. But it has to be done. Traffic loads, especially trucks, put an amazing amount of pressure on the highways.
Anyhow, please, when driving through construction areas, keep in mind that each and every person on those crews has a family that wants them home safely each and every day.
