Safety and Traffic Control Plans for Work Zones

Tech Transfer provides Cal-OSHA-compliant work zone safety training for your work-zone crew at your location on your request.

This award-winning, two-day course trains your road crews and their supervisors how to safely plan, install, operate and take down work zones in order to protect the worker and the public. Attendees work on traffic control plans for real-world locations under a variety of conditions. Students will also learn basic principles for safe set-up of flagging stations and effective flagging.

This training is regularly updated to incorporate the latest State and Federal guidelines. The course is available to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, utility companies and private contractors, and can be customized to meet the different needs of crews working on local streets, low volume roads, or high-speed facilities. Your agency or company can host a class exclusively for your own work crews, or coordinate with neighbors to take full advantage of the delivery cost of $7495 for up to 40 attendees.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the training, the student will:

• Understand the need and requirements to protect the driving public and work-zone crew at and around construction and maintenance areas (or work zones).
• Be able to develop traffic control plans for work zones in accordance with the State and national guidelines.
• Understand safety equipment and markings as well as their uses/limitations under various conditions.
• Be able to install traffic control devices for work zones to assure safety of the driving public and the work-zone crew.
• Be able to safely install and remove a variety of safety equipment and markings used to control/guide traffic safely through work zones.
• Be able to use flags and paddles to safely control vehicle movements around work zones in accordance with the State and national guidelines.
• Gain knowledge concerning actions to reduce risk of personal and agency liability arising from negligence in the work-zone design and operation.

Detailed course outline (PDF)

To schedule a class please complete a request form (PDF).

For more information on the training, please contact:

workzones@techtransfer.berkeley.edu

For information about Tech Transfer's 4-hour Flagging at Work Zones course, click here.