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Safety Informational Circuit – Marion (Cedar Rapids)

Event Details
LOCATION

Marion, Iowa

VENUE

Linn-Squaw Creek Park
Red Cedar Lodge
1700 Big Bluestem Drive
Marion, IA 52302 (Map)

 

DATES

October 23, 2019

TIME

Check-in begins at 8:30 AM
Workshop begins at 9:00 AM

Event Contact
David Veneziano
InTrans, Iowa LTAP
515-294-5480
dvenez@iastate.edu

Description

NEW SERIES: Iowa Safety Informational Circuit

Join us at this NEW roadway and worker safety series.  Hear useful information but also participate directly in this DIFFERENT kind of interactive and application-oriented event!  Bring your safety-related issues to discuss at various one-on-one/small group stations throughout the day.

If you attend you will:

  • Hear about programs that you can use to improve and fund safety
  • Collect safety program resources at the information table
  • Welcome our new GTSB Safety Partner – Brandi Thompson
  • Discuss road situations and low cost safety improvements
  • Learn about how to develop worker safety policies and plan content
  • Apply some stress management basics
  • Participate and network in one-on-one or small group safety stations addressing your questions.  Stations focus points are expected to include:
    • Your safety issue(s) and potential responses
    • Your crash map and its creation
    • Worker safety policy/plan implementation
    • LTAP loan equipment demonstrations
    • Help with Occupant Restraint Use
    • Others
  • Walk away with information that you can apply to improve roadway and worker safety

Who Should Attend?

  • County and city engineers and staff
  • Traffic and safety engineers
  • Law Enforcement

Agenda

8:30 AM
Check-in/Registration

9:00 AM

Welcome, Introductions and Why Are we Here?

Iowa Safety Program Information

Welcome Brandi Thompson – New Safety Partner at GTSB

Reading the Road and Low Cost Countermeasures

10:45 AM
One on One/Small Group Stations (see details below)

11:15 AM   
Developing Worker Safety Policy and Plan Content

12:00 PM  
Lunch

12:45 PM
Stress Management Basics

1:30 PM    
One on One/Small Group Stations

2:15 PM   
Wrap-Up Subject

2:50 PM    
Adjourn

One on One/Small Group Station topics:

  • Bring your Safety Issue and Discuss Potential Responses
  • Discuss/Create Crash Maps (with ICAT)
  • Using the LTAP Loan Equipment (demonstration)
  • Worker Safety Policy/Plan Implementation
  • Occupant Restraint Information
  • Others

Note: Presentations and stations may vary by location based on speaker availability. 

For More Information

If you have questions or need more information, please contact David Veneziano at 515-294-5480 or dvenez@iastate.edu

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