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About three out of five contractors have experienced at least A vehicle accident in a road work area Last year. Almost a third has counted five or more accidents.
This is according to a survey of members of the General contractors associated with America Directed by the group of contractors in collaboration with the HCSS construction software firm.
“Every day, tens of thousands of North -Americans work alongside our roads, often with little more of them and the current traffic than an orange barrel,” said AGC general director, Jeffrey Shoaf, during a webinar on the report. “Our data show that too often, the North -Americans drop them.”
As in the past, the AGC survey stated that drivers and passengers are much more likely to be injured or murdered in working areas than construction workers.
Thirty percent of contractors said they had suffered an injury as a result of a collision, compared to 71%, saying that a driver or passenger was injured. In the meantime, 13% of contractors reported that at least a mortality of workers came from a collision, compared to 24%, which reported at least one passenger or driver’s death.
What can be done
Contractors are overwhelming that more can be done to protect workers and motorists, with 47% who say that jobs are a greater risk than a year ago.
Almost 40% said that the acceleration penalties in the work areas are sufficient, but the application is not, while 36% said that the existing penalties are inadequate.
The main methods of respondents believe that they could improve safety include a greater police presence in job construction places (80%), strict application of existing laws on the work area
Movement violations (70%) and strictest laws around the use of mobile phone (66%).
“Too many drivers see the need to stop and pay attention to the work areas because too few states have made the work area a priority,” said Shoaf.
AGC and other groups have urged Congress to act to enforce the strictest laws around the work and safety of the road. The American Association of Traffic Services and the National Association of Asphalt Pavements Said in April Who will lead a coalition to address the safety of the work area in the next bill of the federal road.
But the states have also taken initiative. On the webinar there were Michael Gallant, director of industry relations and government affairs of the Boston -based software firm, Haulhub Technologies.
In collaboration with Delaware Dot, as well as dumps in Iowa, Nebraska and Louisiana, Haulub worked on a federal program to collect construction data to inform drivers.
By gathering verified contractor workers over the last two years, Haulub has promoted information to applications such as Waze. The result is to alert the controllers who use the application when the work occurs, with the ultimate goal of slowing them down.
“It’s about ensuring that when someone enters a work area, it is not invisible,” said Gallant.
