• Backing Safety Program
• Internal Traffic Control Plans

Engineering Controls

• Proximity Warning Systems

• Equipment designed to minimize blind areas
• Equipment inspections/preventative maintenance
• Layout work areas to avoid backing
• Use of spotters
• Training for operators and workers on foot
• Use of high visibility vests
• Use of other backing safety devices (engineering controls)

• Avoid having to backup
• Do walk around
• Be aware of blind areas
• Use a spotter

• Be aware of equipment blind areas
• Stay out of all blind areas and swing radius
• Make positive eye contact with operators

• Expectancy
• Perception time
• Reaction time
• Ability

• Require workers to wear high-visibility clothing.
• Apparel that covers moving parts of the body is best.
• Consider apparel with different designs front and back.

• Coordinate vehicle/equipment movement inside the work zone
• Limit exposure of workers on foot to construction traffic
• Reduce hazards for equipment operators
  

• Reducing the need to back up equipment
• Limiting access points to work zones
• Establishing pedestrian-free areas where possible
• Establishing work zone layouts commensurate with type of equipment
• Providing signs within the work zone to give guidance to pedestrians, equipment and trucks
• Designing buffer spaces to protect pedestrians from errant vehicles or work zone equipment

• Safety Points
• Personnel
• Equipment

• Method Specific

• Dimensions Movement Flow
• Workzone Limits
• Signage

• No workers in traffic zone
• Spotter uses hands free radio to talk to trucks
• No workers on foot between a backing truck and the paver
• No rollers within 50 feet of the back of the paver
• Inspectors remain away from paving train and notify spotter before obtaining samples

• Review TCP (for Work Zones) and Other
• Contract Documents
• Determine Site Specific ITCP Needs
• Draw Work Space
• Add Pedestrian and Equipment Paths
• Locate Staging Areas
• Prepare Notes and Plan

• Backup alarms
• Spotters
• Visual Devices
• Sensors/Parking Aids
• Other/Hybrid devices

• Feasible to mount system on trucks?
• Minimal false alarms?
• Reliable detection of a person?

• System evaluation forms
• Driver interviews
• First hand observations during ride-along
• Winter and summer tests

• Preco’s Preview radar
• Clarion heated camera with shield

• Camera and radar effective in dry conditions
• Problems in snow, rain:
  
  • Snow, ice, mud build-up after 5 miles
  • Camera lens shield froze then broke
  • Radar false alarms from snow and mud on antenna
    
• Improvements needed!

• Camera and radar worked best when mounted high
• Could not mount either system on the tailgate or hitch area
• Designed bridge for mounting systems

• Ride-along showed very few false alarms from radar, but camera more useful
• Clearance problem with bridge under asphalt loading bins and wheeled loaders
• Bridge won’t work - camera and radar must be mounted on dump box

• Drivers said system is reliable in most conditions
• Concerned about detection range of 8 ft
• Some false alarms in heavy dust
• Constant false alarms when trailer is being pulled (optional trailer system needed)
• Tests continue on smaller vehicles

• Small camera that can mount on side of dump box
• Size of 2 inch cube

• Small size allowed for good mounting location
• Most drivers found it useful
• Reliable operation during 5 month test
• Would have problems in winter

• Small and easy to mount
• Does not detect people very well
• Good detection of other objects

• False alarms are possible
• Nuisance alarms can be numerous in crowded work areas

• Provide view of blind area
• Do not alarm so potential collision may go unnoticed
• May not work in winter conditions
• Good solution for crowded work zones during warmer months

• Alarm prompts driver to check video
• Video allows driver to check source of alarm

• Smaller package
• Ignores some mud/snow on sensor face
• Tests on 3 dump trucks this spring

• Small, heated enclosure
• Innovative methods to keep lens clean
• Winter tests to be scheduled

• Small, low cost tags secured to each worker or embedded in an Electronic Guardrail ™ in the area to be monitored
• Rugged reader units located on vehicles operating in the area
• LCD displays located in the vehicle cabs

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