Work Alert: How to Ensure Traffic Safety

Traffic safety on and around construction sites is crucial to preventing accidents and ensuring safe traffic for both workers and road users. One of the most important safety measures is correct work warning. This includes the use of signs, barriers and warning equipment that informs and protects everyone traveling near roadworks and construction areas.

What is work notification?

Work safety is about planning, setting up and maintaining safety measures that allow traffic and pedestrians to safely pass through an area where work is in progress. Proper work safety reduces the risk of accidents and ensures a safe working environment.

Why is training in occupational health and safety important?

In order to work safely on or near roads, employees are required to have completed the necessary training and hold a valid certificate of competence. Work safety is regulated by laws and regulations, and it is the Norwegian Public Roads Administration that sets requirements for this competence.

Work safety course 1 – Basic course for all road workers

This course is mandatory for anyone who performs work on or near national and county roads. The course provides necessary knowledge about safety, laws, regulations and the use of warning and safety equipment.

• Format: Live webinar in digital classroom with authorized instructor
• Duration: 1 day
• Validity: The certificate of competence is valid for 5 years.
• Target group: Contractors, construction workers, employers with responsibility for reporting, and anyone who participates in work that requires reporting at work
• Content: Laws and regulations, safety routines, risk assessment, warning and safety equipment, traffic safety, division of responsibilities, logging and reporting

Read more and sign up for Job Alert Course 1 .

Occupational health and safety course 2 – For those responsible for health and safety.

This course is aimed at personnel who are responsible for work on or near roads, including those who are responsible for preparing and approving warning plans. Course 2 provides a thorough theoretical platform for the role of responsible person.

• Format: Webinar over 2 days
  
• Validity: Certificate of competence must be updated every 5 years
• Target group: Those responsible for and planners of work notification
• Content: Laws and regulations, sign regulations, chapter 14, excavation and work permits, preparation and control of work warning plans, risk assessments, requirements for warning and safety, accessibility, control and sanctions
  
  
• Note: Course 2 includes work notification course 1, but participants must attend both days if they have previously taken course 1.

Read more and register for Job Alert Course 2 .

Benefits of our work alert courses

• Valid certificate of competence approved by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration
• Flexible webinars that allow you to take courses without traveling
• Experienced and authorized instructors
  

Work notification contributes to safer construction sites

By ensuring that everyone working on or near the road has the right skills, you significantly reduce the risk of accidents. It is also a legal requirement that businesses must follow to avoid fines and downtime.

Contact us for guidance and registration, and ensure that your workplace complies with current safety requirements.