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The Role of Risk in Winter Maintenance

The Role of Risk in Winter Maintenance. Jan Ölander , Mark DeVries , Wilf Nixon, . What sort of risks do we have to deal with How best might we deal with them Intended to be a conversation and sharing of experiences. Outline.

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The Role of Risk in Winter Maintenance

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  1. The Role of Risk in Winter Maintenance Jan Ölander, Mark DeVries, WilfNixon, APWA Iowa Spring Meeting

  2. What sort of risks do we have to deal with • How best might we deal with them • Intended to be a conversation and sharing of experiences Outline APWA Iowa Spring Meeting

  3. Fast Facts: - MDOT has used more than 440,000 tons of salt so far this winter, about 80 percent more than this time last year. - MDOT is expecting to use more than 600,000 tons of salt this winter. - MDOT expects to exceed its $88 million winter budget by $40 million. Salt supplies holding up, but winter costs are eating into summer maintenance budgets Winter Storm Pax Update for South: Power Slowly Returning to Thousands in Georgia, N.C. and S.C. The Daily Show pounds Atlanta with fresh snark storm Jon Stewart on Atlanta's "ice age doomsday zombie apocalypse" What a Winter! APWA Iowa Spring Meeting

  4. Risk in the sense of uncertain information that is pretty critical for us • Think weather forecasts (that might not be so good) • Risk in the sense of people having crashes during winter conditions • The end result is they may sue our organization The Types of Risk APWA Iowa Spring Meeting

  5. Weather forecasts are improving (no, really…) • BUT, they are a long way from perfect, and • They are pretty much guesswork beyond 72 hours ahead • SO, what can we do about this? The Weather Risk APWA Iowa Spring Meeting

  6. Accidents occur under many weather conditions • When winter weather is involved it is critical to have a policy and stick to it • It used to be assumed that agencies in Iowa had immunity to civil suits related to winter crashes • BUT, some evidence that this “landscape” may be changing (Hargrafen case in Muscatine) • Even if you prevail (as happened with Hargrafen) lots of costs and time spent in the process The Accident Risk APWA Iowa Spring Meeting

  7. Thank You! APWA Iowa Spring Meeting

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