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Traffic Control & Work Zone Safety
How road-construction work zones keep you safe from passing traffic and moving equipment: the construction signs and tags that warn and direct, flaggers and proper…
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Traffic Control & Work Zone Safety
What you’ll learn
By the end of this course.
Identify the construction signs and tags used to warn and direct, and the requirement that traffic control signs/devices conform to the MUTCD — 1926.200(g)(2)
Describe the flagger's role, that signaling must conform to Part 6 of the MUTCD, and the primary use of the STOP/SLOW paddle — 1926.201(a)
Explain the purpose of barricades and channelizing devices and that they must conform to Part 6 of the MUTCD — 1926.202
Identify the four areas of a temporary traffic control zone (advance warning, transition, activity, termination) and the buffer space — 1926.201(a), MUTCD Part 6
Apply the definitions of the subpart (barricade, sign, signals, tags) to what you see on site — 1926.203
Apply your role: wear high-visibility apparel, obey the flagger, respect buffer spaces, and report missing or knocked-down devices — 1926.201(a)
References & standards
Grounded in the source material.
- 29 CFR 1926 Subpart G — Signs, Signals, and Barricades
- 1926.200 — Accident prevention signs and tags
- 1926.201 — Signaling (flaggers)
- 1926.202 — Barricades
- 1926.203 — Definitions applicable to this subpart
- MUTCD Part 6 — Temporary Traffic Control (incorporated by reference)
This is awareness training. It supports your program; it is not a substitute for site-specific procedures or hands-on competency where a standard requires it.
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