Work Zone Safety Training – [Complete Video Package]
$239
If you have employees who work on public streets, highways, country roads, or construction areas, then you need this Work Zone Safety Training Video. Whether patching potholes, maintaining bridges, repaving roads, or painting lines, your employees are in constant danger of cars, trucks, and pedestrians. Each year, hundreds of people lose their lives when a motor vehicle plows into a road work crew, and the key to preventing this from happening to your employees is training. Making your Work Zone safer is the goal of this course.
This Work Zone Safety Training Teaches Several Important Concepts:
- What is traffic control, and how does it help keep workers safe while in the work zone?
- What Standards have been created by the Federal Highway Administration (part of DOT)? What are Temporary Traffic Control “TTC” zones, and how do they operate? (These procedures are part of the DOT’s “Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices,” and they specify how signs, cones, barriers, and flaggers should be used)
- An overview of signage, including “Road Work Ahead” and “Be Prepared to Stop,” which warn drivers that they are entering a work zone
- The importance of a transportation management plan and why it’s necessary to have one in place before any work starts
- What is the purpose of a work zone? (It is to provide clear guidance to drivers and pedestrians while minimizing changes to the normal flow of traffic around the zone)
Temporary Traffic Control and Traffic Control Devices:
- What is the purpose of cones, barrels, barricades, and barriers in a work zone? (These are used to channel motorists into safe travel lanes and to separate them from the work being performed)
- What are the different types of flagging procedures, and how do they work?
- What are examples of devices used to block off work zones? (they may include metal frames, striped rails, signs, lights, or other devices.)
- What is the difference between using plastic or metal drums in highway work zones or other areas? (Plastic is preferred)
- The importance of a temporary traffic control zone and its components: advance warning area, transition area, activity area, and termination area
- What are concrete barriers best used for? (These are best used to create an immovable barrier between traffic and work zone hazards)
Flagger Best Practices When It Comes to Zone Safety:
- How a flagger can help prevent driver confusion by engaging with the cars directly and letting them know what to do and when to do it (stop, go, proceed with caution, etc.)
- What is the difference between “flags” and “paddles,” and what role do they play in the work zone?
- What are the four sections of a Temporary Traffic Control Zone (TTC) and why are they critical? (1) an Advance Warning Area (2) A Transition Area (3) An Activity Area (4) A Termination Area
- The importance of using proper Traffic Control techniques and traffic control safety
Maintaining Work Zone Safety:
- The importance of regular checks for displaced cones or barrels and adjusting the layout as needed
- The importance of making sure tools, equipment, and materials are kept out of traffic and never stored in buffer zones
- The need for regular safety meetings, visibility, and alertness among workers
- The need for additional precautions for working at night include the use of temporary work lights and reflective clothing
- The role of supervisors in verifying the effectiveness of the temporary traffic control zone
- and much more…
Work zones are dangerous places. If your company does any work within “Work Zones” or you employ Flaggers, then you need this safety training video to help them do their jobs safely and effectively. Giving your road crews roadway safety training, temporary traffic control courses, and other work zone safety classes can help prevent injuries and increase worker safety. Providing training resources helps promote best practices, increase knowledge with your workers, and help keep the work area accident and injury-free.
Why Work Zone Safety Training Matters
Hundreds of people are killed in work zone crashes every year, and the workers on foot are the most exposed people out there — separated from moving traffic by nothing but cones, barrels, and a flagger’s paddle. The drivers coming at your crew are distracted, impatient, and often confused about where they are supposed to go. Everything that keeps your people alive comes down to how well the temporary traffic control zone is set up and how well the crew understands it.
That is also what regulators look at. OSHA’s construction standards for signs, signals, and barricades (29 CFR 1926 Subpart G) require traffic control devices and flagging to conform to the Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, and 29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2) requires you to instruct every employee in recognizing and avoiding the hazards of their job. Training your crew on TTC zones, device placement, and flagging procedures is how you meet both duties at once.
It is also your paper trail. When a DOT inspector, a general contractor, or an OSHA compliance officer asks how your workers were trained on temporary traffic control, this kit’s quiz, training sign-in sheet, and printable Certificates of Completion are the answer — for every worker, on every crew, without buying anything else.
Who Needs Work Zone Safety Training
Anyone who works on or beside a road that is open to traffic:
- Road construction, paving, line striping, and bridge crews
- Municipal, county, and utility crews working in the right-of-way
- Pothole patching and roadside maintenance workers
- Flaggers and spotters — this covers flagging procedures and best practices, and pairs with any state-specific flagger certification your state DOT requires
- Landscaping, towing, and delivery crews who work from the shoulder
- Supervisors and forepersons who set up, inspect, and adjust temporary traffic control zones
Night work adds its own hazards, and the training covers those too — temporary work lighting, reflective clothing, and the extra vigilance that low visibility demands.
This Work Zone Training Program Includes These Items:
- Full-length Work Zone Safety Training video
- Employee quiz and answer sheet
- A “Presenter’s Guide” if you are going to do this training in person
- A printable training sign-in sheet to keep track of your training program
- A printable Certificate of Completion. You can print as many copies of the Certificate as you need
Work Zone Safety Course Delivery Options:
This training is 20 minutes long and is available as a DVD or USB stick. The languages are available in either English or Spanish. We also offer this course with an online option, either as a standalone course or as part of a larger online safety training library with 220+ available courses.
Work Zone Training Video – Full-Length Preview:
FAQs on Work Zone Safety Training
Answered by our in-house OSHA Authorized Trainer – Jason Hessom
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Yes. OSHA’s construction standards require that traffic control signs, signals, and barricades conform to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (29 CFR 1926 Subpart G), that flaggers use proper signaling methods, and — under 29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2) — that every employee be instructed in recognizing and avoiding the hazards of their work. For any crew working next to live traffic, work zone training is how you satisfy that duty and document it.
There is no single federal work zone card. This course includes a printable Certificate of Completion — and you can print as many copies as you need — which is what most employers, general contractors, and DOT project owners ask to see, along with the training sign-in sheet included in the kit. Note that a number of states require designated flaggers to hold a separate state-approved flagger certification; check your state DOT’s rules for that specific role.
A temporary traffic control zone is the stretch of roadway where work is happening and traffic is guided around it using the devices the MUTCD specifies. It has four sections: the advance warning area that tells drivers something is ahead, the transition area that moves them out of their normal path, the activity area where the work happens, and the termination area that returns traffic to normal. The video walks through all four and how cones, barrels, barricades, and concrete barriers are used in each.
Yes — flagging is a dedicated section. It covers how a flagger prevents driver confusion by communicating directly with approaching vehicles, the difference between flags and paddles and when each is used, and proper positioning within the traffic control zone. If your state requires a separate flagger certification card, use this as the safety training that supports it rather than a replacement for it.
The video runs 20 minutes and comes on DVD or USB stick, in English or Spanish. It is also available online, either as a standalone course or as part of our online safety training library of 250-plus courses. Every version includes the full-length video, an employee quiz with answer sheet, a Presenter’s Guide for in-person sessions, a printable sign-in sheet, and printable Certificates of Completion.
Every employee who works on or beside a road open to traffic — road and bridge construction crews, municipal and utility workers, maintenance and pothole crews, flaggers and spotters, and the supervisors who set up and inspect the traffic control zone. At 20 minutes it fits inside a normal toolbox talk or pre-season safety meeting, which makes it practical to retrain the whole crew each spring.
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Would have given it a better rating, but the video file was corrupted and had to be replaced. Customer service was very helpful and fixed my situation quickly.
Our crew liked this one and the price was really good compared to other products I’ve seen.
Highly recommend for work zone and road work crews. Can’t give enough safety training on this topic!
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Money well spent