Training & Education
ARTBA’s award-winning training programs approach roadway construction safety from “both sides of the barricades,” meaning we aim to ensure workers, motorists, and pedestrians, can safely navigate work zones when construction is underway.
For questions or help with scheduling a virtual class or customized training please contact Robinson Vasquez at rvasquez@artba.org.
We are closely monitoring COVID-19 and the impacts on face-to-face training. As soon as CDC recommendations allow, we will resume scheduling in-person classes
Instructor-Led Virtual Course Catalog:
This thirty-minute online course covers industry best practices to prevent work zone spread of coronavirus and other infectious diseases. It provides information transportation construction professionals need to know about the causes, prevention and treatment of COVID-19, plus additional resources, videos and a tool to customize your infectious disease safety plan.
- Investment: $1,000.00, plus $20.00 per student. No more than 40 students per class
- Duration: 0.5 hours.
Aimed at preventing occupational deaths and injuries associated with falls in highway, street and bridge construction, this multi-faceted program includes comprehensive training on slips, trips, aerial work platforms, fall prevention systems, and fall rescue plans.
- Investment: $3,000.00, plus $20.00 per student. No more than 40 students per class
- Duration: 4 hours in one or two days.
Covers the OSHA-10 Hour for Construction course objectives and includes four additional hours of industry-specific safety topics, including temporary traffic control, risk assessment, and preventing runovers and backovers. The course also provides another path for construction industry professionals to meet the eligibility requirements to sit for the Safety Certification for Transportation Project Professionals™ exam.
- Investment: $6,000.00, plus $30.00 per student. No more than 40 students per class
- Duration: 14 hours in four days.
The first and most comprehensive program focused on roadway construction activities that are responsible for most work zone fatalities and serious injuries. The course provides an overview of 11 key construction work zone-related safety and health topics and is accredited by OSHA.
- Investment: $5,000.00, plus $30.00 per student. No more than 40 students per class
- Duration: 10 hours in three or four days.
This comprehensive safety training program helps workers understand how to work safely around crystalline silica and well as informing them about the national standards related to controlling exposure and training requirements.
- Investment: $3,000.00, plus $20.00 per student. No more than 40 students per class
- Duration: 4 hours in one or two days.
Based on more than two decades of government and industry research, this course includes step-by-step instructions on preventing worker “struck-by” incidents through creation of “Internal Traffic Control Plans (ITCPs).” It focuses on blind spot recognition, work zone access/egress, and safe backing procedures.
- Investment: $3,000.00, plus $20.00 per student. No more than 40 students per class
- Duration: 4 hours in one or two days.
This program focuses on training workers and operators on avoiding being struck by construction vehicles and equipment primarily in backing-up operations. Students will learn to deal with hazardous traffic activities in the work zone and spotting construction vehicles and heavy equipment. It meets the rigorous ANSI/ASTM 2659 standard for certificate programs.
- Investment: $3,500.00, plus $20.00 per student. No more than 40 students per class
- Duration: 4 hours in one or two days.
This course focuses on preventing the main hazards in trenching and excavations like cave-ins, falls, roll-overs, confined spaces, traffic, underground utilities, soil identification, and other related hazards. ARTBA created this course with the support of the OSHA Harwood grant.
- Investment: $3,000.00, plus $20.00 per student. No more than 40 students per class
- Duration: 4 hours in one or two days.
- This course is free from January 1 to September 30, 2021.
It is the most widely vetted and comprehensive roadway construction safety training program in the industry and was developed through 15 years of collaboration between ARTBA and its partners in labor, government, and industry. This course uses the Roadway Safety + program, focuses on the leading causes of incidents in the work zone, and can be customized according to your training needs. ARTBA created this course with the support of the FHWA.
- Investment: $3,000.00, plus $20.00 per student. No more than 40 students per class
- Duration: 4 hours in one or two days