Protect roadside workers from traffic
May 1, 2025
This month’s road safety goal is to reduce the risks for everyone who works at the roadside. Choose one or more of the following activities to help you reach that goal, using the recommended resources.
Basic
- Review employer and supervisor requirements under WorkSafeBC’s Part 18 and the Traffic Manual: What Employers Need to Know to Keep Roadside Workers Safe Guide
- Give employees who drive for work regular reminders about the laws they need to follow when approaching a roadside work zone: Work zone driving laws
- Help crews understand safety basics in a roadside work zone: Safety at the Roadside: What Roadside Workers Need to Know Guide
Better
- Have all employees review tips for driving safely in work zones, and test their knowledge: Work zone driving tips and Driving in a Work Zone Quiz
- Develop clear safety procedures for setting up, maintaining, and removing work zones and train your workers to follow them: Work Zone Planning Tool Kit
- Make sure employees who work briefly at the roadside, such as tow truck operators and emergency response staff, know how to keep themselves safe: What Truck and Van Drivers Need to Know Guide and emergency scene traffic control
Best
- Have employees use DriveBC, municipal websites, and media traffic reports to plan trips that avoid or minimize driving in known work zones: DriveBC
- Download Cone Zone campaign resources and share them with your staff and colleagues. Encourage everyone to share them with their networks. Show your support by putting up a poster or using a custom email signature: Cone Zone campaign resources
- Hold an annual Cone Zone challenge. For example, have managers, supervisors, and drivers complete a quiz and compare scores: Roadside Worker Safety Quiz and Driving in a Work Zone Quiz
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