9th Annual Work Zone Awareness Week: Are We Training Our On-Scene Responders?

摘要

The 9th annual National Work Zone Awareness Week will be held April 7-11, 2008. OSHA - 'According to the FHWA, the seven-year period ending in 2004 saw nearly a 50% increase in work zone fatalities. In 2004, there were an estimated 1,068 fatalities in work zones. 80% of those fatalities involved motorists, construction workers and other employees laboring in highway work zones...' That's one work zone fatality every 8.2 hours (3 a day) or one work zone injury every 9 minutes (160 a day).