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Toll Facility Safety Study Report to Congress
Improving Safety Issues Associated with Environmental Issues 15
Strategies Number of
participants
who
identified
this strategy
as the most
effective
strategy in
this group.
Install positive air in all
booths.
Periodically conduct noise
and emissions testing at
the booths.
Install air conditioning in
booths in warmer climates
and consider individual
controls.
Switch from cash drawers
to cash bags to facilitate
hands-free crossing.
Issue safety shoes (i.e.,
slip resistant, steel-toe) to
collectors.
Add brightly-colored
striping to the edges to
stairs and curbs to improve
visibility and depth
perception.
Install CO monitors in
booths or test for CO
periodically.
Use “FlexCrete” or other
skid resistant surface at the
crossing area to reduce
slips.
Provide gloves to
collectors.
Install handrails on both
sides of tunnel stairways to
reduce falls.
% Number of
participants
who identified
this strategy as
the second
most effective
in this group.
% Number of
participants who
identified this
strategy as the
third most
effective in this
group.
% Number of
participants
who identified
this strategy as
one of the top
three most
effective
strategies in
this group.
7 35% 5 25% 3 15% 15 75%
2 10% 5 25% 2 10% 9 45%
1 5% 4 20% 1 5% 6 30%
0 0% 2 10% 3 15% 5 25%
3 15% 0 0% 2 10% 5 25%
2 10% 0 0% 2 10% 4 20%
2 10% 1 5% 1 5% 4 20%
2 10% 1 5% 1 5% 4 20%
0 0% 2 10% 1 5% 3 15%
1 5% 0 0% 2 10% 3 15%
15
Note that strategies discussed here are presented in Section 4 of this report in the category of “Reducing Worker
Exposure to the Environment.”
Appendix G – Agency Workshop / Workshop Ratings Page G-5
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