02000_WORK_ZONE.rtf

02000-2

SECTION 02000

WORK ZONE SAFETY AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

1. SCOPE: The work covered by this section includes all labor, materials, services, and incidentals necessary to safely maintain pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The Contractor is responsible for establishing devices, markings, and controls in the work area and all approaches to work area for warning and protecting workers and people using the roadway and approaches.

Plans for maintenance of traffic operations shall be coordinated with the COR ten (10) working days in advance of operations. Traffic Safety and Control operations apply 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

1.1 Traffic control shall be incorporated into the contractors construction plans by personnel trained and experienced in traffic management.

1.2 The on site foreman shall be trained in work-zone safety.

1.3 The Contractor shall design, and update, a traffic safety plan for each work zone. The contractor shall carefully plan the layout of the work zone using safety principals and equipment best suited for the situation. The goals shall include making the workers and equipment as conspicuous as possible, keeping workers safe day and night, in any weather, reducing traffic congestion, and improving communications with motorists so they understand the situation quickly.

- Safety and traffic personnel shall be trained in their functions.

- Workers shall be trained in safety standards.

- The path through the work zone shall be clearly marked.

- Signage shall allow quick and easy interpretation.

- Reposition and change signage and controls to reflect changes in the work.

- Inspect the work zone control elements at least daily.

- Personal protective items shall be worn, with enhanced visibility as the goal.

- New personal and unfamiliar equipment shall not be brought onto the work site without the appropriate worker safety training and equipment.

1.4 The contractor shall plan an easy to follow traffic path, use skilled flaggers, and appropriate markings and signage. With approval of the COR, the contractor may use portable speed bumps to alert motorists of hazardous conditions.

2.0 APPLICABLE PUBLICATIONS: The publications listed below form a part of this specification to the extent referenced.

2.1 The work under this section shall be in accordance with:

2.1.1 The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD 2000) millennium edition.

2.1.2 Section 104 of the "Standard Specifications for Construction and Materials," Maryland Department of Transportation, State Highway Administration, dated October 1993, and the latest errata and addenda, all referred to herein as Maryland State Specification.

a. All references to "Engineer" shall be interpreted to mean the "Contracting Officer”.

b. Delete all references to measurement and payment.

2.1.3 The Maryland State Highway Administration Book of Standards for Highways and Incidental Structures.

3.0 TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT:

3.1 The Contractor shall provide a Traffic Manager. The Traffic Manager shall be trained and experienced in traffic control. The Traffic Manager shall have authority for the implementation of traffic control plans, restrictions, the monitoring and maintenance of signs, channeling devices, signals, the furnishing of watchmen, flaggers, and all other traffic related safety work required.

3.2 The Traffic Manager shall coordinate these operations with the COR. The Traffic Manager shall oversee and supervise traffic safety on all work performed under this contract including any subcontractors. On-site inspections of all operations that affect traffic (vehicular and pedestrian) shall be made on a daily basis. Traffic maintenance includes surveillance of the construction area during normal work times, non-working hours, night-time, weekends, and holidays, as required, on a regular basis but not less than once daily. Any signs, markings, barricades, etc., found damaged or unserviceable, shall be corrected promptly.

4.0 TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES, MARKINGS, ETC:

4.1 Traffic controls, signs, barricades, and channeling devices shall conform to the applicable sections of the referenced documents.

4.2 The Contractor is responsible for maintaining signs, and their proper location. This includes any necessary cleaning so that the signs are legible at all times. As required, existing signs shall be either bagged, or removed and reset upon completion of work. Reference Digging Clearance Requirements.

4.3 Used signs are permitted, provided their reflective intensity meets the standards in the Maryland State Specifications section 104. Signs and markings that become faded or illegible shall be replaced.

4.4 Temporary signs and traffic control devices shall remain the property of the Contractor.

4.5 The Contractor can sign, mark, and use single lane, reversible flow traffic. The Contractor shall provide flagmen to control the reversible single lane on a continuous round-the-clock basis. If the day's patching or reconstruction is started and completed within normal duty hours, then flagmen are not required during non-duty hours.

4.6 All government property damaged during the performance of work shall be repaired or replaced by the contractor at no additional cost to the Government.

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