Street Maintenance Worker Safety

MES-5.2



Street maintenance covers a lot of different job activities: maintaining street signs, cleaning city streets and storm drains, and repairing streets and sidewalks. All of these activities include their own types of hazards. Traffic can be especially dangerous, because it is difficult to predict what drivers will do. Workers who successfully complete this course will know about the major hazards associated with street maintenance and how to protect against them. Learners should be able to identify the physical and health hazards associated with municipal street maintenance work and their preventative measures. This course is intended for municipal street maintenance workers.