Work Zone Mobility and Safety Program
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NHI Certificate in Work Zone Safety

NHI is offering Certificates of Accomplishment to recognize individuals who have successfully completed and achieved passing grades in selected groupings of related NHI course offerings. The Certificate Program features suites of complementary NHI courses bundled together to enable participants to enhance their depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise in specific disciplines or topic areas. The NHI Certificate of Accomplishment in Work Zone Safety provides best practices to help practitioners design, operate, and maintain highway work zones that improve safety for workers and the driving public.

Now Available - Advanced Work Zone Management and Design (FHWA-NHI-380072)

This three-day training course provides participants with advanced levels of knowledge and competencies with technical and non-technical aspects of work zone management practices including work zone planning, project phasing and scheduling, design, contracting, transportation management plans, speed management, monitoring safety and mobility, and more. The course includes practical hands-on exercises in groups. This course is intended for those that understand the principles of engineering judgment and studies, have considerable management or design experience in work zone traffic control, and have an understanding of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. The target audience is State and local design engineers, traffic and safety engineers, senior work zone traffic engineers, transportation planners, employees/board members of metropolitan planning organizations, regional planners, regional construction engineers (with work zone experience), and senior engineering technicians.

Construction Inspection, Workmanship, and Quality (FHWA-NHI-134055)

This course helps transportation professionals involved in the inspection of highway construction projects improve their understanding of the factors that contribute to high-quality products. Using workshops and real-life examples that are relevant to participants, the course covers the legal, liability, and risk issues, and quality assurance topics related to construction projects. Emphasizing stewardship and oversight roles, the course discusses the importance of fostering partnership, cooperation, and teamwork among stakeholders as well as the importance of quality decisions. With the goal of improving overall product quality and system performance, the course presents participants with approaches that help improve the quality of field decisions and the implementation of decisive actions in the field. The course was initially advertised as "Managing Construction Workmanship."

Additional work zone related courses can be found in the NHI Training Catalog.
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