Improving Our Roadways and Infrastructure
With increasing populations and aging infrastructure assets, national transportation funding continues to be a key focus for our country. For anyone who travels primarily by car, having access to communities across the nation while maintaining mobility within each city is of increasing importance.
Balfour Beatty works with public departments of transportation to design and build the highway infrastructure that keep people moving. The company focuses on expanding existing highways to reduce congestion, delivering larger interchanges to improve traffic flow and building brand new highways and toll roads to connect communities across the nation. With a focus on safety and extensive traffic management planning, Balfour Beatty improves transportation infrastructure with minimal disruption to daily traffic flow.
Live Traffic: The Fifth Fatal Risk
Zero Harm demands that we recognize the full spectrum of safety hazards. Live traffic stands as our fifth fatal risk alongside OSHA’s “Fatal Four,” representing the immediate dangers our teams face when working in proximity to moving vehicles, pedestrians, heavy machinery and more. Whether on highway projects separated only by temporary barriers, or on urban sites coordinating deliveries through congested streets, this critical risk touches every aspect of our operations.
This recognition stems from our unwavering commitment to protect not just our workforce, but also the traveling public whose paths intersect with our projects daily. By elevating live traffic to this critical status, we strengthen our safety culture through enhanced training, innovative protection systems and proactive community engagement .
The inclusion of live traffic as our fifth fatal risk reminds us that safety doesn’t end at the project boundary, but instead, it follows us onto every road we travel. Each time we slow down, move over and stay alert on the road – especially in a work zone – we save lives.
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