Protect roadside workers from traffic
May 4, 2026
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.
The basics
These activities can help you focus on high-priority risks and basic compliance requirements.
- Review employer and supervisor requirements under WorkSafeBC’s Part 18 and the Traffic Management Manual for Work on Roadways: What Employers Need to Know to Keep Roadside Workers Safe Guide
- Provide a thorough work zone orientation: Orientation for crews working around traffic
- Help crews understand safety basics in a roadside work zone: Safety at the Roadside: What Roadside Workers Need to Know Guide
Better steps
Build on the basics with activities that strengthen your road safety practices and results.
- Have all employees review tips and laws for driving safely in work zones: Work zone driving tips
- Involve workers in developing clear safety procedures for setting up, maintaining, and removing work zones. Train 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 practices
Take it further with activities that help you maintain strong performance and a lasting safety culture.
- Have employees use DriveBC, municipal websites, and media traffic reports to plan trips that avoid or minimize driving in known work zones: DriveBC
- Download Work Zone Safety campaign resources and share them with your staff and colleagues. Encourage everyone to share them with their networks: Work Zone Safety campaign resources
- Hold an annual work 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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