Work Zone Safety

Provide Safeguards to Ensure that Workers Are Not Put at Risk

Background:

Every year over 100 workers die in construction work zones, many the result of being struck by a motor vehicle. Steps need to be taken to provide safeguards to ensure that workers are not put at risk. AGC is working to include language in the reauthorization bill that will improve employee safety by providing safeguards to ensure that workers are not put at risk.

AGC Message:

In addition to establishing a national goal to cut the number of traffic fatalities in half over the next 20 years, the next bill needs to include provisions ensuring the installation of barriers between construction work zones and traffic lanes in those cases where workers are in danger of being struck by moving traffic.