ACPA Concrete Pavement Progress Quarter 3 2020

Concrete Pavement Progress www.acpa.org 12 Create More Employee Parking Areas “We might have six crews working over a 10-mile stretch of highway, but generally, they all park in the same area and are shuttled to their jobsite for the day,” says Howard. “We changed our approach by creating multiple smaller parking areas along the jobsite.” This did require weighing safety on the jobsite versus safety of individuals’ health and designing the parking areas to support both, but the approach reassured employees that their health was important to Koss, he adds. P A V I N G I N T H E A G E O F S O C I A L D I S T A N C I N G New Jobsite Rules Protect Field Crews Finding ways to redesign ancillary areas surrounding jobsites, house employees in remote areas, and reassure crews that the company was protecting their health required contractors to make some strategic changes in their jobsites. Limit Number of People in Trucks At first, employees at Milestone were limited to one person per truck, but that requirement changed to two people with both wearing masks as more guidance was received from experts, says Steve Friess, manager of the Concrete Ops Division at Milestone. “We then allowed the bigger trucks to transport three people wearing face coverings with windows down to allow fresh air to circulate.” Masks or face coverings were provided to employees, but they were only required while traveling together in a vehicle, he says.