Work Zone Blunders

The barriers placed around work zones are there to protect workers and to keep the public out of construction zones. These barriers create a safety zone. But what happens when the work is completed, the concrete is setting-up and the workday comes to an end?

Someone will blunder into the fresh concrete!.

This happens quite often because people are distracted. A good example of this is a small job that involved replacing a hand hole and pouring a new section of sidewalk.

The smart phone is one of the best distractions ever invented. It has almost become an appendage and being without it is like missing an arm or a leg. Drivers constantly look at their phones, and drive into work zones. Pedestrians look at their phones and walk into freshly poured concrete, and bicyclists do the same thing.

This is bad for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists, it is also bad for our concrete work. If you are a driver, a pedestrian or a bicyclist, and you read this post, we ask that you put away your phone and watch where you are going.