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Tools to help transportation and public works teams, professionals, and leaders save lives
Are they doing all they can?
Do you know all you should?
See how many ways there are to improve the abilities of
transportation professionals to improve highway safety…
In a typical year, nearly 40,000 people are killed and over 3 million are injured in motor vehicle crashes!
These costly crashes occur on all types of roads: urban (39%) and rural (61%); and federal, state, and local.
It takes significant resources and skill to reduce these losses.
Meanwhile, our transportation labor force is shrinking without skilled replacements – due to changes in birth rates, career choices, retirements, and the evolution of roadway safety.
Even now, many who can make a difference have knowledge gaps that, filled, might save lives.
Consider these solutions and training opportunities…
Workforce Planning – ensures that there will be enough adequately trained professionals for future efforts. FHWA is leading efforts like the Highway Safety Workforce Planning Forum to cooperatively plan strategies for the profession nationwide.
Core Competencies – identify the minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for each position related to safety. Efforts are underway nationwide and for individual agencies.
Certifications – encourage staff to reach for the next level and document their skills. Examples include NICET, P.E., P.T.O.E., and “Road Scholars”. New examples may include graduate certificates in safety, and Road Safety Scholars for local workers.
Transportation Curriculum Coordinating Council – a cooperative effort among state DOTs and others to establish training paths in 5 areas: construction, maintenance, materials, employee development, and Traffic & Safety, which is now under development.
College & Graduate Education – trains future transportation professionals in the safety skills needed upon entering the workforce. FHWA, colleges, and a TRB Subcommittee on Safety Workforce Development are addressing core competencies, a policy study, and model curricula.
Student Education – classroom programs teach children about signal, pedestrian, and work zone safety; and promote transportation careers.
Partnerships – FHWA, AASHTO, ITE, TRB, NACE, and many other organizations work together to find solutions, develop standards, and provide training.
Other – on-the-job training, career paths, research, knowledge management, outreach, professional capacity building, training videos, and a new Work Zone Curriculum Framework all help.
| Professional Development – invests in you and your staff to improve the ability of your agency to make cost-effective safety improvements: See below |
* To be developed / Slash indicates two or more courses.
Check with your local T2 Center; over 100 titles include:
Federal
Highway Administration
Office of Safety
400 7th St
SW, Washington, DC 20590
Phone 202-366-2288, fax 202-366-3222
Associate
Administrator: George Ostensen
safety.fhwa.dot.gov
FHWA
Safety Training
Ben Gribbon,
202-366-1809
Benjamin.gribbon@fhwa.dot.gov
FHWA HSA-30 Rev. 7/7/2003 12:48 PM
