Overview

Road-workers are a rarely appreciated, high chastised group of people who put themselves in harm’s way on a daily basis. While ensuring that our roadways are safe and maintained, this group comes face to face with danger at an alarming rate. In a study recently published by the Associated General Contractors, an astounding number of accidents is recorded in Work zones involving road-workers and road users.

• 28% of Work Zone accidents result in death of driver or passenger and 8% of Work Zone accidents result in death of workers.
• On the other hand, 70% of Work Zone accidents result in injury to driver or passenger and 28% of Work Zone crashes result in injury of worker.

The high severity impact as well as the increased numbers of accidents leads Engineers in the Road Safety field to be cautious when we undertake Road Safety Audits (or Site inspections). This presentation aims to highlight what to do, and what to avoid during the site visits on public road networks.

Speaker

Eur Ing Miguel-Angel Serrano Santos

UNOPS and with the National Road Safety Center (NRSC) in Riyadh - Senior Road Safety Specialist

Miguel is a well-renowned Chartered Civil Engineer, who graduated from the University of Granada in Spain. At present he is working as a Senior Road Safety Specialist for UNOPS and with the National Road Safety Center (NRSC) in Riyadh. He was working previously with Ashghal (Public Works Authority), where he was responsible for managing and approving all Road Safety Audits that were undertaken in Qatar. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Manager and member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Fellow member of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT), the Society of Road Safety Auditors (SoRSA), and the Spanish Association of Road Safety Auditors (ASEVI) and has over seventeen years of experience in transport planning and traffic engineering. Due to his extensive knowledge in the civil engineering discipline, he has successfully secured and delivered Road Safety projects internationally. Miguel is also the Vice- President of ASEVI (Spanish Association of Road Safety Auditors), and has successfully helped to create a corroborative relationship between engineering professionals in different countries. Lastly, Miguel has successfully delivered Road Safety courses to students and engineering professionals, and has been an active speaker at various conferences, seminars and universities internationally.

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