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M62 - Your Local History
A lot of finds were uncovered during the archaeological evaluation carried out for the M62 Junction 6 Improvement scheme so we thought it would be nice to provide an interactive website so you can see what we found.
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Road Worker Safety
Background
Every year road workers are killed and injured on the nations roads while doing their job to try and keep the nation going and improve the facilities we have, if it is from a safety scheme, cutting the verge or replacing a burst pipe these jobs are all essential to help improve the standard of life of the whole population. Industry can look to improve procedures and use new technology to improve the safety of the road work force. Driver behaviour also plays a large part in improving road worker safety. In addition to the noticeable safety issues with regards to speeding and dangerous driving at road works there is the additional aspect of abuse, both verbal and physical including the throwing of missiles and threats of assault.
This resource looks to supply a suite of material that can be used to raise awareness of the issues and encourage drivers to alter their behaviour and respect road workers for the work they do.
For a list of media resources and printed materials please see the 'Resources' and 'Printed Material' pages.
The use of "Respect Our Road Worker" material
All material that has been produced has been cleared for all use but there are some restrictions with respect to broadcast television. The "Respect" drama has a clearance to be used on broadcast television for three months from the 1st November 2008. If you need a Digi Beta version to run on broadcast television or would like to run it after the three month period please contact Symon Toon at the Highways Agency (symon.toon@highways.gsi.gov.uk or 0113 283 6836). The '5 second' drama is not cleared for use on broadcast television. The RESPECT video is not to be transmitted in the breaks immediately before, during and immediately after children's programmes.
