Highway Work Zone Safety Audits at the Construction Stage.

Author(s)
Shi, J. Li, Z. & Snyder, M.
Year
Abstract

The nationÆs 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 zoneÆs impacts on the traveling public and construction workers. Work zone safety auditis a proactive tool to serve the purpose. This paper presents the guidelines for highway work zone safety audits at the construction stage. After abrief 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-auditreviews, audit meetings, audit field inspections, audit analyses and audit recommendations. Finally, a case study is introduced to show the proposed guidelines.

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Library number
C 47679 (In: C 45019 DVD) /50 / ITRD E853506
Source

In: Compendium of papers DVD 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board TRB, Washington, D.C., January 11-15, 2009, 16 p.

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