Roadway Safety: Instructor Manual

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A manual that helps a trainer provide information on a variety of roadway hazards, such as electrical, falls, slips and trips and ergonomics. Part of a collection. Click on the 'collection' button to access the other items.
2002

This document is one in a program produced under an OSHA grant by a consortium of the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund N.A, the International Union of Operating Engineers, the American Road and Transportation Builders Assn, and the National Asphalt Pavement Assn. All of the documents from this set that are on eLCOSH can be found by clicking on Job Site, Heavy construction, and scrolling to the Street & highway heading. Or to download a complete version of the computerized program, go to a href="https://www.workzonesafety.org/">https://www.workzonesafety.org/.

Who Can Deliver This Training Module?

The Roadway Safety Awareness Program is designed for use by supervisory personnel with some safety and health experience or by safety and health personnel to orient new workers as they arrive on the jobsite.

How Should an Instructor Deliver This Module?

As an instructor, you must do more than present knowledge. You must impact the trainee's attitude, belief, and behavior. Research shows that questioning interaction is the best method for influencing a trainee's attitudes and beliefs. Trainees must be able to voice their objections to new ideas and to contribute their own solutions to problems.

That is why the Roadway Safety Awareness Program is designed using the QUESTIONING METHOD. This manual presents a script which can be presented by any qualified instructor. The course content appears in the main column. The second column contains suggested questions and other relevant information designed to spark the interaction you need for effective classroom instruction.

Effective questioning helps you determine whether your trainees understand the information. It allows trainees to share their knowledge. Frank interaction helps trainees overcome their misunderstandings of the material. It helps instructors overcome resistance trainees may have to new information. Finally, frequent questioning prevents instructors from covering too much information too fast. Extensive use of questions is more time-consuming and requires a disciplined command of the topic. But it is the most effective method of classroom instruction.

What Does an Instructor Need to Deliver This Module?

1. A computer with CD drive, a projector, and the Roadway Safety CD, or
2. An overhead transparency projector and the Roadway Safety color overhead transparencies, or
3. The Roadway Safety color flipbook, and
4. Roadway Safety Trainee Booklets for all trainees.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Module 1: Runovers/Backovers

Module 2: Operator Safety

Module 3: Struck or Crushed

How Can Road Workers Be Struck? Module 4: Flagger Safety

Module 5: Night Work

Module 6: Excavation

Module 7: Electrical Hazards

Module 8: Sprains and Strains

Module 9: Fall Hazards

Module 10: Noise Hazards

Module 11: Health Hazards

Module 12: Working Outdoors

Module 13: Emergencies