Critter Crossing – Tips to Avoid Collisions with Wildlife

The Great Northwest is home to many wildlife species of which many take to roads for crossing. A vast distance of our highways and freeways run straight through their natural habitats and migration routes, creating a high risk for collisions and even accidents as a result. It isn’t uncommon to see a struck-and-killed animal on…

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Keeping Safe in the Heat

As summer approaches with sudden surges of temperatures in the Northwest, it’s important to address concerns about working in the heat. When temperatures rise suddenly, it raises concern about working conditions for those such as flaggers and construction workers submitted to the environment for long periods of time. Typically, we experience steady rises in temperature,…

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Smart Work Zones – Bringing Innovation to Traffic Control

For many years, traffic control has relied solely on human judgment and expertise to guide the public through work zones across the U.S. In modern times, technology has also played an important role in our everyday lives for some time now, and it is ever increasing as we make advances in technological innovation for various…

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Power Down: Staying Safe When Power lines Fall

In recent years throughout the Northwest, a number of wind storms following wet weather has resulted in disastrous emergency situations involving downed trees and power lines. When managing such a situation, utility and construction workers alike must be extra cautious and aware of the dangers present with fallen power lines. Electricity is widely recognized as…

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Attention! – Flagger Safety with Distracted Drivers

The nature of the job with traffic control is traffic itself; it is the greatest danger to flaggers and work crews on the roadways and will always be so. As humans, we are prone to errors of judgment, but add distractions of many kinds, especially the electronic kind, to the mix and the danger increases…

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Rain on and Keep Calm – Proper Gear for Wet Weather

April showers bring May flowers…and despite the downpours, traffic control efforts must go on as construction crews continue to work through many kinds of weather conditions. Here in the Northwest, we face a little bit of every kind of weather, often times in just one day. However, the committed men and women working to keep…

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Moving into a Safer Workplace – Avoid Injuries on the Job

It’s the nature of the job; street construction is a hazardous environment!  Work crews face many risks for injury under ever changing conditions that may present without warning.  Here at TraffiCorp, we keep the topic of safety at the forefront of our conversations to better ensure the safest and most efficient traffic management for the…

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