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Title:

Highway Work Zone Safety Audits at the Construction Stage

Accession Number:

01123209

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The nation’s highways are in need of extensive maintenance and reconstruction work. High traffic demand requires state and local transportation agencies to consider practical strategies for minimizing a work zone’s impacts on the traveling public and construction workers. Work zone safety audit is a proactive tool to serve the purpose. This paper presents the guidelines for highway work zone safety audits at the construction stage. After a brief description of the key features of work zone safety audit, an eight-step audit process is presented. Then, the article focuses on the five key audit tasks which are performed in the audit process including pre-audit reviews, audit meetings, audit field inspections, audit analyses and audit recommendations. Finally, a case study is introduced to show the proposed guidelines.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-1513

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Shi, Jonathan
Li, Zongzhi
Snyder, Mark

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (1) ; References (14) ; Tables (2)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-1513

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 5:45PM