Roadside Workers and Traffic Hazards

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• Corporate Authors:
  Michigan State University
• Description:
  Roads, from highways to quiet residential streets, can present serious and even life-threatening hazards for workers. The sight of highway work crews, and the risks posed by their jobs, are familiar to most drivers. However, many other industries and occupations involve working on or immediately nearby roadways, and can be just as dangerous and fatal: Emergency Vehicles; Police Cars; Garbage Trucks; Landscaping Crews; Mail/Parcel Delivery (USPS, FedEx, UPS, Amazon); School Bus/Transportation Drivers; Utility crews (lineman, surveyors, general road maintenance). These industries and occupations often do not have the same level of signage and overall driver recognition that highway work crews do. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Automobiles Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Transportation
• Keywords:
  Construction Workers Hazards Highway Work Zones Motor Vehicles Road Construction Transportation Workers
• Publisher:
  Michigan State University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Lay Publication
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066709
• Citation:
  East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 2019 Apr; :1-2
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  Michigan State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Roadside workers and traffic hazards
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cca3d030803248bd8c1e854133954f174ddb55bac4b5b5399160928dbbf745b07428adbb59c987a7e842759d091d353337d817f706c0aafda3fbfb43b4210879
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230993/cdc_230993_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 982.03 KB ]