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Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Update

Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Update. Your Road Safety Team. Who Is the Road Safety Team?. You are! Every Lab employee who drives, bikes, or walks onsite EHS Subject Matter Experts Richard DeBusk Araceli Andrews EHS Leadership Team Facilities Division

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Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Update

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  1. Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Update Your Road Safety Team

  2. Who Is the Road Safety Team? • You are! • Every Lab employee who drives, bikes, or walks onsite • EHS Subject Matter Experts • Richard DeBusk • Araceli Andrews • EHS Leadership Team • Facilities Division • Single Point of Contact – Matt Vail • Project and Construction Managers • Safety Manager – Gene Tucker • Traffic Engineer – Steve Blair • Safety Coordinators • SAC • Lab Leadership • Some people you might not expect! • Bus Drivers • Lab Lighting Crew

  3. Approach

  4. Principles Everyone at LBNL has a stake and role to play in traffic and pedestrian safety EHS role is to facilitate/coordinate/communicate We are providing a service to the Lab

  5. Topics

  6. Immediate Issues • Created new EHS and Facilities Traffic Safety SME/Point of Contact (DeBusk/Vail) • Evaluated GEM safety when used offsite • Implementing Shuttle Bus Seat Belt Campaign • Continuing good response for safety concerns (90% are traffic related - ~ 25-30 monthly • Responding to issues with current construction projects • CRT Project • B-74 • Approximately 2-hours per day of traffic and pedestrian safety observations

  7. Intermediate-Term Improvements • Reforming the Traffic and Transportation Safety Committee to focus more on safety issues (vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian) • Proposing this as new subcommittee to SAC • Began implementation of the Shuttle Bus Seat Belt Campaign • Began walking down construction projects with science division representatives (pilot with Betsy MacGowan) to evaluate potential problems • Focusing on traffic and pedestrian safety support to Facilities PMs • CRT – TABL articles and daily project inspections • B-84 and B-83 concern response • Coordinated with CSEE to provide orientation for new students in summer program (4 groups)

  8. Longer-Term Institutional Issues • Planning underway for Road Safety Day (Awareness Campaign) – Tennessee Gock leading (late June target date) • Coordinated with student orientation (early/mid June) • Coordinating with other groups such as Berkeley Bicycle Coalition • Planning underway on new design review criteria for construction projects – traffic and pedestrian safety impacts • With Facilities Division, proposed ~$500,000 in pedestrian safety improvements in Unicall (FY-13 – FY-15)

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