Pilot safety program launched
There's a new program in Minnesota to help make your job safer. The Minnesota Local Agency Safety Pilot Program was launched earlier this year by the Mn/DOT Office of State Aid, the Metro District, and Minnesota LTAP. It offers technical assistance and outreach to Minnesota's local transportation agencies (city, county, township) regarding work-area and work-zone safety. For more information about this program, please call Jim Grothaus of Minnesota LTAP at 612-625-8373 or e-mail jgrothaus@cts.umn.edu.
Ray Viall will provide the technical expertise for the program. Viall has more than 30 years of experience with government agencies in the areas of risk management and workplace safety, road maintenance, snowplowing, and construction. With this experience, he is ready to help local government agencies when called upon.
You may contact Viall for technical assistance and on-site visits regarding a range of safety topics, such as hazards communication, shop machine safety, and trenching and excavation.
Please feel free to contact him at 612-670-0533 or ray.viall@dot.state.mn.us.