{"id":85503,"date":"2020-11-19T07:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=85503"},"modified":"2020-11-18T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:58:05","slug":"road-workers-safety-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/road-workers-safety-2\/85503\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking footage prompts call for road workers to report abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>To mark Road Safety Week (16-22 November) <a href=\"https:\/\/highwaysengland.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Highways England<\/a> is urging all road workers to ensure they report any and all incidents of both incursions and abuse<\/h2>\n<p>Highways England revealed there were nearly 6,500 incidents of incursions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/inflatable-safety-barrier\/83301\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">road workers<\/a> in October 2017 and October 2020 \u2013 an average of 175 a month.<\/p>\n<p>There were around 330 incidents of abuse reported from Sept 2019 to October 2020, an average of nearly one a day.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a 10% increase in abuse incidents in the first 9 months of 2020 compared to the first 9 months of 2019 \u2013 with lower traffic flows in 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Highways England has recently lead a cross-industry project to raise awareness of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/construction-technology-news\/road-workers-exoskeleton\/73353\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">road worker safety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The footage below shows how road workers are at risk from road users.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Y1WdcEBqB5o\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How roadworkers are at risk from road users\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y1WdcEBqB5o?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>&#8216;Together we can make a difference&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Mark Byard, director of health and safety at Highways England, said: \u201cOur roads keep the country moving, keep families connected and businesses in business, so our road workers are vital to everyone\u2019s wellbeing, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/construction-technology-news\/road-workers-safety\/70364\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their wellbeing is vital to us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;175 reported incursions a month is far too many and it\u2019s an issue on all types of roads, for our whole industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud of the way the Highways sector has come together to raise awareness of the issue. We urge members of supply chain to report all incidents of incursions and abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James Haluch, managing director at Amey Highways and chair of the vehicle incursions working group, added: \u201cIn 2019, in Amey alone we recorded 753 actual vehicle incursions into our road closures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorse still, we have an actual collision with a traffic management vehicle every 4 or so months. Each one of these results in injuries to our people and it is generally the case that the physical injuries heal far quicker than the mental health ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This unprecedented collaboration by the Highways sector in raising awareness is so critical in helping to eliminate the risk to the people that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/highways-maintenance-contract\/70338\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maintain our road network<\/a> to keep the country connected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few moments lapse of concentration could be life-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark Road Safety Week (16 \u2013 22 November 2020) Highways England is urging all road workers to ensure they report any and all incidents of both incursions and abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[676,276,432,579,9877,806,753,934],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-health-safety","10":"tag-infrastructure","11":"tag-national-highways","12":"tag-road-improvements","13":"tag-safety","14":"tag-wellbeing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shocking footage prompts call for road workers to report abuse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To mark Road Safety Week, Highways England is urging all road workers to ensure they report any and all incidents of both incursions and abuse\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/road-workers-safety-2\/85503\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shocking footage prompts call for road workers to report abuse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To mark Road Safety Week, Highways England is urging all road workers to ensure they report any and all incidents of both incursions and abuse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/road-workers-safety-2\/85503\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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