Essential Road Safety Equipment: Protecting Workers & Drivers

Basic road safety equipment has grown significantly over the decades from traffic cones, barriers and signs to photo speed enforcement, surveillance cameras and infrastructure designed to minimize accidents.

Road Equipment

• Primary equipment to ensure road worker include safety cones, road barriers, road lamps, directional signs and temporary speed bumps, according to manchestersafety.co.uk.

Traffic Controller

• A key component to road safety is the workers carrying flags or lamps to control traffic in busy construction areas, such as on highways and freeways.

Personal Safety

• Road workers are required to wear a variety of equipment to ensure safety, such as a helmet, eye and hearing protection, flame retardant clothing, air respirators, high visibility clothing, harnesses for aerial work and back braces.

Infrastructure

• Infrastructure is often underestimated, such as steel guard rails and barriers at bridges and viaducts.

Technology

• Technological advances have made photo speed enforcement and video surveillance ubiquitous on most roads and highways in North America and Europe.

For the Car

• Drivers should keep such basic items as a first-aid kit, blanket, flashlight and jumper cables in the vehicle in the event the vehicle is disabled, according to vat19.com.