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Scottsdale unveils workforce and responder safety emphasis in transportation safety plan
Summary
City staff presented a transportation-safety framework prioritizing worker/contractor and emergency-responder protection in the right of way, recommending engineering controls, training, incident reporting and heat-stress measures; Scottsdale Fire emphasized thermal-runaway risks from lithium-ion batteries.
City transportation staff presented a safety plan section that puts workforce and emergency-responder safety at the center of right-of-way planning.
Nathan Domingue said the plan will protect employees, contractors and emergency responders working in rights of way (roads, alleys, paved/unpaved paths and frontages) and stressed prioritizing elimination and engineering controls over PPE. "Elimination of that conflict — work outside of the travel way wherever feasible" was framed as the preferred approach, supported by traffic-control…
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