Warning beacons for service vehicles

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• Personal Author:
  Bullough, John D. ; Rea MS
• Description:
  Warning beacons using flashing or rotating amber lights are an important line of defense for service workers in the construction and maintenance fields. Not only should they provide conspicuity, warning drivers of other vehicles about the presence of workers and their vehicles, but they should also convey information about location, orientation and relative speed and distance. Normally, these lights flash at a constant rate and regardless of the presence of other warning beacons at a given work location. This can result in increased visual chaos and a lack of visual information. This presentation will describe recent research underway for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to identify the characteristics of warning beacon intensity, flashing properties and spatial patterns that support rapid detecti9on and accurate identification about location, speed and if relevant, direction of travel. These findings can lead to the development of performance specifications of warning beacons that allow them to adapt to different working conditions for improving worker safety. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergency Responders Mining Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Emergency-equipment Emergency-lighting Light-source Luminescence Motor-vehicle-parts Motor-vehicles Visual-aids Warning-devices Warning-signals Warning-systems Workers

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• Publisher:
  New York State Association of Transportation Engineers
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047008
• Citation:
  Tech Valley Transportation Challenges and Opportunities, Proceedings of the 74th NYSATE Conference, May 28-30, 2014, Saratoga Springs, New York. NY: New York State Association of Transportation Engineers, 2014 May; :1
• Contact Point Address:
  John D. Bullough, Ph.D., Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 21 Union Street, Troy, NY 12180
• Email:
  bulloj@rpi.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20130901
• Source Full Name:
  Tech Valley Transportation Challenges and Opportunities, Proceedings of the 74th NYSATE Conference, May 28-30, 2014, Saratoga Springs, New York
• End Date:
  20180831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a0ab387c0db55324fc840c2b97d795225a41902ad90b87ab5424204ad1b4e4ce3f61bc22185ac893b5e778649ac8cddbf26b571bf8735223fc55c5383dc0c578
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202245/cdc_202245_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 548.63 KB ]