Combating Road Departures and Improving Intersection Safety with Low Cost Countermeasures - One-Day Online Class
Combating Road Departures and Improving Intersection Safety with Low Cost Countermeasures - One-Day Online Class
Attendees will learn how to select low cost countermeasures and compute crash reduction benefits to reduce road departures, and improve intersection safety in their locality or Planning District Commission (PDC) / Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) / Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) region. The course teaches tools and resources available through VDOT’s HSIP program, systemic safety analysis and project development as well as road departure and intersection safety trends and countermeasures.
Traffic Calming - One-Day Online Class
Traffic Calming - One-Day Online Class
This course is intended to provide an overview of traffic calming and the tools needed to make decisions regarding applications. This one-day course on this topic provides a foundation in the evolution of traffic calming policies and practices. Detailed information on commonly-used traffic calming measures is then presented, addressing selection, design, effectiveness, and several case studies. The course concludes with a workshop and review of available resources.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: describe concepts and components in traffic calming plans and policies; select and design traffic calming measures; quantify the effectiveness of commonly-used traffic calming measures; and develop a model policy and procedure for applying traffic calming measures.
Human Behavior: Impacts and Strategies for Road Safety - One-Day Online Class
Human Behavior: Impacts and Strategies for Road Safety - One-Day Online Class
This training identifies systems that drive human behavior and the impact on designing and implementing systems or programs. Road safety is a complex issue, and any efforts to improve safety must address not only the roadway but also road user behavior, vehicle design, interaction between road users, and the effect of the roadway on all road users. This course will identify the key principles of human behaviors and the importance in including education, safety messaging and awareness in road safety planning.
Crash Data, What Next? - One-Day Online Class
Crash Data, What Next? - One-Day Online Class
Attendees will learn how to access and use mapping resources to identify High Crash Locations in their locality or Planning District Commission (PDC) / Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) / Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) region. The course teaches methods to capture data in Microsoft excel from VDOT’s Crash Tool using filters for crash severity and road departure crash types. Steps to manipulate data and import crash attributes into Google maps closes out the day. The end product for a Virginia county case study demonstrates the value of this process for capital project and regional transportation planning purposes.
Strategies in Roadway Injury Prevention - One-Day Online Class
Strategies in Roadway Injury Prevention - One-Day Online Class
Road safety is a complex issue, and any efforts to improve safety must address not only the roadway but also road user behavior, vehicle design, interaction between road users, and the effect of the roadway on all road users. This training introduces fundamental concepts of injury prevention, crash dynamics, risk factors and interventions.
Safety Effects of Roadway Design - One-Day Online Class
Safety Effects of Roadway Design - One-Day Online Class
This course is intended to delve into the relationship between highway safety performance and roadway geometric design. The course will begin with a brief review of design factors and establishment of the roadway alignment. Topics addressed in greater depth include: cross-section elements, access management, and the relationship between geometric design and safety as well as traffic control. An overview of modern highway safety analysis concepts, such as crash modification factors, safety performance functions, and safety analysis methods, will be discussed.
This training provides an overview of safety trends, an understanding of the national safety vision, and discusses the principles of a comprehensive safety program. It will also discuss the importance of prioritizing safety and how an individual can become a Road Safety Champion.
Join FHWA Master TIMs trainer Diann Wilson as she guides you through NHI’s online course, interspersed with facilitated discussion and real life responder safety examples.
Three injury crashes occur every minute in the United States, putting nearly 39,000 incident responders potentially in harm’s way every day. Congestion from these incidents often generates secondary crashes, further increasing traveler delay and frustration. The longer incident responders remain at the scene, the greater the risk they, and the traveling public, face. A cadre of well-trained responders helps improve traffic incident response. Better incident response improve the safety of responders and drivers, reduces crashes that occur because of incident-related congestion, decreases traffic delays caused by incidents, and can cut incident response time.
The National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training was created by responders for responders. This course provides first responders a shared understanding of the requirements for safe, quick clearance of traffic incident scenes; prompt, reliable and open communication; and motorist and responder safeguards. First responders learn how to operate more efficiently and collectively.
Traffic Incident Management is one in a series of courses in core and specialized safety issues. When all requirements are met, participants will be awarded a Road Safety Champion Program Certificate. (Note: the certificate is not a degree or professional certification).
The Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) is a certificate program designed to improve the safety training of those responsible for operating, maintaining, designing, and enforcing local roads. The long-term goal is to build a knowledgeable workforce that is motivated to implement safety improvements that reduce injuries and fatalities on rural and local roadways.
Basic Work Zone is one in a series of courses in core and specialized safety issues. When all requirements are met, participants will be awarded a Road Safety Champion Program Certificate. (Note: the certificate is not a degree or professional certification).
The Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) is a certificate program designed to improve the safety training of those responsible for operating, maintaining, designing, and enforcing local roads. The long-term goal is to build a knowledgeable workforce that is motivated to implement safety improvements that reduce injuries and fatalities on rural and local roadways.
As traffic volumes increase and the need to repair and improve roadways becomes greater, so does the need to plan, install, and review work zone traffic control to effectively and safely perform the work. Federal requirements now instruct state and local governments to train personnel in work zone traffic control relevant to the job decisions that each individual is required to make. This workshop provides training needed to properly install work zones to perform daily maintenance or short-term operations. Emphasis is placed on the basics of work zone traffic control, focusing on work zone devices and how to effectively install and maintain them. At the conclusion of this workshop, a short open-book written exam will be administered to all attendees. A VDOT-issued training card will be given to each attendee who achieves a passing grade of 80% or higher.
As our highway infrastructure ages, many transportation agencies are focusing on rebuilding and improving existing roadways. This means more roadwork is being performed on roadways where traffic is present. Roadwork can be hazardous. For every 4 billion vehicle-miles travelled in the United States, there is a work zone fatality. These incidents account for congestion and delays — and hundreds of worker and pedestrian fatalities each year. Workers are exposed to risk of injury or fatality from general construction hazards, as well as dangers posed by traffic passing by the work zone and equipment moving within the work zone. The Worker Safety class highlights the hazards present in the work zone and identifies measures to mitigate the risks associated with them.
This lively online class will change the way you think about worker safety. You will learn about worker safety fundamentals, administrative controls, personal protective equipment, engineering controls, and the focus four hazards. By the end of the training, you will possess the knowledge to mitigate the risks associated with roadway construction and temporary traffic control.
Each module includes a recorded lecture, quiz, assignment, and group discussion. The student has 1 hour and 15 minutes of independent study to complete the lecture (s), quiz, and assignment. The class reconvenes for a 30-minute group discussion that further develops the modules learning outcomes.
Worker Safety is one in a series of courses in core and specialized safety issues. When all requirements are met, participants will be awarded a Road Safety Champion Program Certificate. (Note: the certificate is not a degree or professional certification).
The Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) is a certificate program designed to improve the safety training of those responsible for operating, maintaining, designing, and enforcing local roads. The long-term goal is to build a knowledgeable workforce that is motivated to implement safety improvements that reduce injuries and fatalities on rural and local roadways.
The OSHA 10 Hour Construction Course is a component of OSHA’s Outreach Training Program. OSHA’s Outreach Training Program is a voluntary program focused on promoting workplace safety and health, making workers more knowledgeable about workplace hazards and their rights.
The OSHA 10-hour training program takes place over 1 ½ days. It includes a combination of topics that are mandatory, elective and optional. It is primarily intended for entry level workers. It is intended to provide workers with an increased awareness about safety. OSHA 10 Construction covers an overview of the hazards a worker may encounter on a construction site. Training emphasizes hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention, not OSHA standards.
OSHA-10 is one in a series of courses in core and specialized safety issues. When all requirements are met, participants will be awarded a Road Safety Champion Program Certificate. (Note: the certificate is not a degree or professional certification).
The Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP) is a certificate program designed to improve the safety training of those responsible for operating, maintaining, designing, and enforcing local roads. The long-term goal is to build a knowledgeable workforce that is motivated to implement safety improvements that reduce injuries and fatalities on rural and local roadways.
This training introduces growing positive traffic safety culture to significantly improve road safety in America. Participants will leave the training with a better understanding of the elements that shape traffic safety culture, how those factors interact to affect behaviors related to traffic safety, strategies that can be implemented to improve traffic safety culture among various groups, and ideas about how they can leverage their role (and the role of others) in growing a positive traffic safety culture.
Goal: Provide a high-level overview of traffic safety culture and strategies to foster improved traffic safety culture.