Work Zone Safety

Every year, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) embarks on hundreds of construction projects across the state and that does not even include the numerous maintenance activities that are conducted everyday to keep our highways safe.

With every construction zone comes equipment, workers and even daily changes in the road and alignment you may be traveling. As a result, it is critical that you do your part to make the cone zones safe. Lower speed limits, flaggers and police enforcement are all used to help keep work zones safe, but motorists still need to drive responsible to keep not only our workers safe, but yourself as well.

Here are some work zone facts to put work zone safety into perspective:

• 4 out of 5 work zone fatalities are motorists
• One work zone fatality occurs nationwide every 7 hours (3 a day)
• One work zone injury occurs nationwide every 15 minutes