Road Safety Champion Program 7-Part Webinar Series

This two-hour training provides an overview of safety trends, an understanding of the national safety vision, and discusses techniques for safety collaboration. It will also discuss the importance of prioritizing safety and how an individual can become a Road Safety Champion. The goal of this module is to provide a high-level overview of road safety in the United States, including an introduction to the concepts that will be covered in the Level 1 Road Safety Champion Program certificate.

Learning Objectives
◾ Define the impact of road safety
◾ Identify the factors in road safety
◾ Identify jurisdictional and geographical differences in road safety
◾ Describe national safety efforts
◾ Describe collaborative techniques for improving safety

This two-hour training will provide an overview of human factors principles and a framework for crash analysis. It will allow the non-expert in human factors to more effectively bring consideration of the road user’s capabilities and limitations into policies and practices. Knowing how road users interact with their vehicle, the roadway and other road users can also provide useful insights to the process of crash analysis. Armed with that knowledge, construction and maintenance personnel, planners, engineers, public health professionals and law enforcement can work together to target appropriate countermeasures to help reduce injury crashes. The goal is to equip practitioners who do not work in or deal directly with human factors to better understand them and the role they play in roadway system policy, design, and operations.

Learning Objectives
◾ Explain road user role as element of a system
◾ Identify road user capabilities and limitations
◾ Describe how current geometric design and traffic operations practices address human factors

This training introduces growing positive traffic safety culture to significantly improve road safety in America. Participants will leave the training with a better understanding of the elements that shape traffic safety culture, how those factors interact to affect behaviors related to traffic safety, strategies that can be implemented to improve traffic safety culture among various groups, and ideas about how they can leverage their role (and the role of others) in growing a positive traffic safety culture. The goal is to provide a high-level overview of traffic safety culture and strategies to foster improved traffic safety culture.

Learning Objectives
◾ Describe traffic safety as a public health concern
◾ Recognize that behavior is influenced by beliefs
◾ Define how we develop beliefs
◾ Define traffic safety culture
◾ Identify strategies that grow traffic safety culture

This module is an introduction and overview of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). The MUTCD defines the standards by which traffic signs, road surface markings, and signals are designed, installed, and used on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public traffic. This module will help participants become aware of the need for uniformity of traffic control devices. Emphasis will be given to an understanding of the MUTCD, Traffic Control Devices, and Temporary Traffic Control. The goal of this module is for participants to understand the purpose of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), and how to use it.

Learning Objectives
◾ Understand the purpose and the organization of the MUTCD
◾ Understand the purpose of Traffic Control Devices (TCDs) and identify their five principles
◾ Describe the fundamental principles of Temporary Traffic Control (TTC) and list the four components of the TTC zones

This two-hour training will discuss the need for transportation, public health and law enforcement agencies to work together on the road to zero and strategies to achieve this. The goal of this module is for attendees to understand the role the public health and law enforcement sectors have in breaking down transportation safety silos which leads to reducing fatalities and serious injuries.

Learning Objectives
◾ Reiterate the importance of transportation safety from multiple perspectives
◾ Identify how law enforcement and public health are intertwined in transportation safety
◾ Describe collaborative approach strategies to break down silos

This two-hour training will teach participants how to “read the road” as well as the importance of doing so in daily activities. It will use real world examples on different roadway components to demonstrate how participants may be able to uncover potential safety issues during their routine activities. It will also discuss how the road safety audit process can be used to “read the road” in a more formal approach. The training will also discuss the consequences daily activities of workers may have on safety. The goal of this module is for participants to be able to “read the road” as well as understand the importance of doing so in daily activities.

Learning Objectives
◾ Define what is meant by “reading the road”
◾ Identify potential safety issues or identify any indications which suggest road users may have problems traveling or navigating a roadway
◾ Identify “reading the road” step(s) in the Road Safety Audit (RSA) process
◾ Demonstrate the steps of a RSA

The safety analysis process, as part of the FHWA Safety Toolkit, is a systematic process for identifying the factors that can contribute to crashes and implementing effective countermeasures. It is a best practice method that is flexible and can be used to fit your needs. This two-hour training will cover the safety analysis process and discuss how it can be applied using two different complementary analysis methods: the traditional site analysis and the systemic analysis. Additionally, case studies will be utilized to demonstrate practical applications on the process. The goal of this module is for participants to understand the steps in the safety analysis process and be able to apply the process to both a traditional site review and systemic network screening.

Learning Objectives
◾ Explain the steps in the safety analysis process
◾ Identify the data/information needed to assess the safety of roadway locations
◾ Describe practical and low-cost countermeasures and their potential impacts
◾ Apply the safety analysis process in various scenarios