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National Work Zone Awareness Week 2020

National Work Zone Awareness Week 2020National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW) 2020 is scheduled for April 20-24.  This year’s theme is Safe Work Zones for All: Protect workers. Protect road users. It features a poster reminiscent of the World War II poster with Rosie the Riveter. In her place are a male and female roadway worker proclaiming, “We Can Do It!”, which is the original language used in the WWII poster. Michigan chose that image as a reflection of its industrial heritage. Original “Rosies” worked as riveters in an aircraft factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan that built B24 bombers, which is now the site of the American Center for Mobility (ACM).

Michigan officials have canceled the April 21 kickoff event in accord with CDC guidelines regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Individual NWZAW events in your area may need to be curtailed, postponed, or canceled due to public health precautions.

However, NWZAW will continue as scheduled on April 20-24. We strongly encourage all participants to take part in NWZAW this year through social media to remind the public to drive safely in and around work zones.

For more information, check out the website below.

  • National Work Zone Awareness Week

Printer version of the National Work Zone Awareness Week poster is available for download in PDF format. Please feel free to print copies for personal or professional use.

To order print copies of this poster, please contact Melanie Laird, [email protected].

To find out what federal, state, and other agencies are doing to promote National Work Zone Awareness Week, view the links below.

  • Federal Agencies
  • State and Local Agencies
  • Non-governmental Organizations

Federal Agencies

Federal Highway Administration

  • FHWA 2020 National Work Zone Awareness Week Press Release
  • A Message from FHWA Executive Director Tom Everett on Work Zone Safety
  • National Work Zone Awareness Week website
    • Fact Sheet: National Work Zone Awareness Week: Safe Work Zones for All: We can do it
  • FHWA Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division employees wearing orange today …

State and Local Agencies

Alabama

  • Alabama Department of Transportation
    • Work Zone Crashes up in Alabama: Support Work Zone Awareness Week April 20-24
  • Decatur Utilities
    • Work Zone Awareness Week: Slow down and share the road

Alaska

  • Alaska Department of Transportation
    • Alaska DOT&PF Recognizes Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
    • April 20-24 is Work Zone Awareness Week! …

Arizona

  • Arizona Department of Transportation
    • Video: ADOTKids Chalk Art Contest
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: Stay off the phone
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: Best teammate we had
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: He drove through our closure
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: A motorist hit me
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: Slow down and share the road
    • ADOT Blog: Video: ADOT crews give on-the-ground view of work zone safety
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: At no fault of his own
    • In Work Zones, Orange is the new (Caution) Yellow
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: Understanding the Move Over law
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: What scares us
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: We want to go home to our families
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: We lost our friend
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: Work With us for one day
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: “She would’ve taken out the whole crew.”
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week: Slow down
    • Work Zone Awareness Week has Extra Significance This Year
    • Driving Safety Home: Safe work zones for all
    • Throughout National Work Zone Awareness…
  • Arizona Local Technical Assistance Program
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week

Arkansas

  • Arkansas Department of Transportation:
    • Arkansas Participates in Work Zone Awareness Week
  • Northwest Arkansas:
    • Good Day NWA: National Work Zone Awareness Week

Colorado

  • Colorado Department of Transportation
    • Video: Work Zone Education
    • CDOT Region 1 National Work Zone Awareness Week 2020
    • CDOT Honoring Fallen Employees on Remembrance Day
    • Video: National Work Zone Awareness Week 2020
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week 2020
    • Work Zone Awareness Week Coloring Contest (scroll down to see it)
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week on the Central 70 Project
    • Honoring Transportation Workers who Gave Their Lives (scroll down to see it)
  • Colorado Springs
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week is April 20-24

Connecticut

  • Connecticut Department of Transportation
    • CTDOT Highway Safety Office – Slow Down
    • Connecticut DOT Work Zone Awareness Week

Delaware

  • Delaware Department of Transportation
    • Could a Coronavirus Lockdown Speed up Major I-95 Construction Work?
    • DelDOT Keeps Roadwork Projects on Track Through Pandemic

Florida

  • Florida Department of Transportation
    • FDOT Hits the Accelerator on Road Construction Projects During Pandemic
    • Safety Week Promotes Safe Work Zones for All
  • Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority
    • National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week

Georgia

  • Georgia Department of Transportation
    • Work Zone Safety: On the road and at home
    • Georgia Department of Transportation Stresses Worker Safety Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
    • Work Zone Safety
    • Safe Work Zones for All. Don’t Cut Their Stories Short.
    • Video: 2020 Work Zone Awareness Week

Illinois

  • Illinois Department of Transportation
    • “Safe Work Zones for All” Encouraged
    • IDOT Encourages Drivers to Slow Down as Fewer Cars Take to Area Roadways
    • I-DOT Observes Work Zone Awareness Week
    • IDOT, Tollway, ISP Team up to Encourage “Safe Work Zones for All”
  • Illinois Tollway
    • Together, We can Make Work Zones Safer for Drivers and Workers
  • City of Peoria Public Works Department
    • Peoria Observes National Work Zone Awareness Week

Indiana

  • Indiana Department of Transportation
    • Video: Will you slow down to help us make safer work zones for everyone?
    • Indiana Recognizing National Work Zone Awareness Week
    • INDOT Celebrates National Work Zone Awareness Week
    • Special Week Promotes Safety in Work Zones
    • INDOT’s Tweet – “National Work Zone Awareness Week kicks off a week from today!”

Kansas

  • Kansas Department of Transportation
    • Work Zone Safety
    • KDOT: Close calls in highway work zones occur too often

Kentucky

  • Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
    • Vested in Work Zone Safety: Safe Drivers + Safe Workers = Safe Work Zones

Louisiana

  • Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
    • Video: Work Zone Safety Awareness Week in Louisiana
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness – Michael Flowers
    • Video: Dr. Shawn Wilson – National Work Zone Awareness Week 2020
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week is …
    • Video: Work Zone Ken Roberts
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Gerald Mahaffey
    • Video: Work Zone Bobbie Page
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week is celebrating 20 years. …

Maryland

  • Maryland Department of Transportation
    • Video: Go Orange for Workzone Safety!
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week – April 20 – 24, 2020
    • Work Zone Safety

Michigan

  • Michigan Department of Transportation
    • MDOT Video Pays Tribute to Michigan’s Critical Infrastructure Workers
    • MDOT Reminds Drivers to Go Slow During Orange Barrel Season
    • Work Zone Safety
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week Begins April 20: Protect workers. Protect road users. Safe work zones for all.
    • 2020 National Work Zone Awareness Week
  • Kent County, MI:
    • Construction Zone Poster Contest for Students at Home
    • Students of all Ages can Sign up for Work Zone Safety Poster Contest
  • Ottawa County Road Commission
    • Ottawa County Students to Share Artistic Talent in Road Commission’s Poster Contest
    • Kids can Help Promote Work Zone Safety in Contest

Minnesota

  • Minnesota Department of Transportation
    • Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Reminds Drivers to Stay Aware of Construction Zones
  • Washington County
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week begins…

Mississippi

  • Mississippi Department of Transportation
    • Video: National Work Zone Awareness Week 2020 – MDOT Chief Engineer Brian Ratliff, P.E.
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week Begins April 20
    • Video: National Work Zone Awareness Week 2020

Missouri

  • Missouri Department of Transportation
    • MoDOT Seeing Fewer Drivers on Road but Higher Distractions and Speeding
    • MoDOT Kids!
    • MoDOT Launches Website to Help Teach Roadway Safety to Children
    • MoDOT Encourages Drivers to be on the Lookout for Construction Workers
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week 2020
    • Video: MoDOT St. Louis Work Zone Awareness Week
    • MoDOT Encourages Driver Safety in Work Zones
    • MoDOT Stresses Slow Down During Work Zone Awareness Week
    • Work Zone Awareness Week 2020 PSA-1
    • Work Zone Awareness Week 2020 PSA-2
    • Work Zone Awareness Week 2020 PSA-3
    • MoDOTvideo: Safety is in Your Hands
    • MoDOTvideo: Bring us to Zero
    • Drivers Urged to Slow Down, Pay Attention as Construction Ramps up (Jefferson City)
    • Drivers Urged to Slow Down, Pay Attention as Construction Ramps Up (Lees Summit)
    • Retired Modot Employee Urges Drivers to Slow Down
  • Missouri Local Technical Assistance Program
    • Go Orange Day 2020

Nebraska

  • Nebraska Department of Transportation
    • NDOT Shares Safety Message as Part of National Work Zone Awareness Week

Nevada

  • Nevada Department of Transportation
    • Bright Orange Short Highlights National Work Zone Awareness Week
  • Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
    • RTC Goes Orange for Work Zone Safety
  • Las Vegas
    • Cone Zone: Work Zone Awareness Week in the Las Vegas Valley

New Jersey

  • New Jersey Local Technical Assistance Program
    • NJLTAP- Work Zone Safety Awareness for Road Departments (Webinar)

New Mexico

  • New Mexico Department of Transportation
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week Begins April 20

New York

  • New York Department of Transportation
    • It’s National Work Zone Awareness Week …

North Carolina

  • North Carolina Department of Transportation
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week
    • State Officials Hearing More Reports of Masks and Gloves on Roads
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week
    • This Week at NCDOT: Work Zone Awareness, Don’t Litter and More

Ohio

  • Ohio Department of Transportation
    • Video: The Loop 04.24.20
    • Ohio Department of Transportation Honors Workers Killed in Crashes
    • ODOT Recognizes “National Work Zone Awareness Week,” Urges Public to Drive Carefully
    • ODOT Reminding Motorists to Move Over, Slow Down for Road Crews
    • Video: During National Work Zone Awareness Week …
    • ODOT and Law Enforcement Express Importance of National Work Zone Awareness Week
    • ODOT Encourages Safe Driving During National Work Zone Awareness Week
    • This Week is National Work Zone Awareness Week
    • ODOT Celebrates Work Zone Awareness Week
    • 2019 was Worst Year for Work Zone Crashes, Ohio Department of Transportation Says
    • Transportation Department Reminding Drivers to Move Over for Workers

Oklahoma

  • Oklahoma City
    • Wear Orange for National Work Zone Awareness Week

Oregon

  • Oregon Department of Transportation
    • Go Orange Day (See Page 2 of 3)
  • Jackson County Roads
    • Work Zone Safety – ‘We Can Do It!’

Rhode Island

  • Rhode Island Department of Transportation
    • Slow Down in Work Zones – Save a Worker’s Life

South Carolina

  • South Carolina Department of Transportation
    • Video: National Work Zone Awareness Week: SHEP
    • Video: National Work Zone Awareness Week – Advanced Warning Signs
    • Video: National Work Zone Awareness Week Truck Mounted Attenuators
    • Video: National Work Zone Awareness Week 2020

Tennessee

  • Tennessee Department of Transportation
    • National Work Zone Awareness Week
    • TDOT Recognizes National Work Zone Awareness Week
    • TDOT Workers Say Work Zones More Dangerous Than Ever
    • TDOT Reminds Motorists to Work With us – Move Over and Slow Down in Work Zones

Texas

  • Texas Department of Transportation
    • Work Zones
    • Video: TXDOT Beginning Construction Projects As Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Begins
  • Texas A&M Transportation Institute
    • 2020 National Work Zone Awareness Week
  • North Texas Tollway Authority
    • 2020 Safety Awareness Digital Media Design Contest

Virginia

  • Virginia Department of Transportation
    • Video: National Work Zone Awareness Week: In memoriam
    • Video: A Voice From the Work Zone
    • Haven’t heard of National Work Zone Awareness Week? …
    • Video: This Week is National Work Zone Awareness Week 2020
    • Work Zone Safety – Work Zone Awareness Week 2020: Safe work zones for all

Washington

  • Washington State Department of Transportation
    • State DOT Honors Highway Workers Killed by Drivers
    • WSDOT Blog: National Work Zone Awareness Week Highlights Need to Keep Road Crews Safe

Wisconsin

  • Wisconsin Department of Transportation
    • WisDOT Observes National Work Zone Awareness Week …
    • Video: Work Zone Awareness Week
  • Portage County Highway Department
    • Drive Safe in Work Zones This Construction Season

Wyoming

  • Wyoming Department of Transportation
    • Video: Work Zone Safety
  • Wyoming Department of Workforce Services
    • Virtual National Stand-Down to Prevent Struck-by Incidents in Construction

Non-governmental Organizations

AGC Michigan

  • National Work Zone Awareness Week (See Page 3 of 4)

Alabama AGC

  • National Work Zone Awareness Week – April 20-24

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

  • Annual Work Zone Awareness Effort Emphasizes Motorist Safety
  • Video: Be Alert! It’s National Work Zone Awareness Week, April 20-24, 2020
  • Speeding Concerns for National Work Zone Appreciation Week

American Road & Transportation Builders Association

  • Work Zone Awareness Week Begins With Online Stand-Down
  • National Work Zone Awareness Week Opens Monday With Online Stand-Down
  • National Work Zone Awareness Week, April 20-24
  • National Work Zone Awareness Week Responds to COVID-19 Crisis
  • April 20 National Stand-Down to Prevent Struck-by Incidents in Construction

American Society of Safety Professionals

  • Virtual National Stand-Down to Prevent Struck-by Incidents in Construction (scroll down to see it)

American Traffic Safety Services Association

  • ATSSA Blog: National Work Zone Awareness Week National Work Zone Awareness Week Observed Across the Country
  • Video: ATSSA Supports NWZAW 2020
  • ATSSA Blog: National Work Zone Awareness Week starts Monday
  • ATSSA Blog: National Work Zone Awareness Week Still on for April 20-24

CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training

  • Work Zone Safety: Join Us for a Virtual National Stand-Down to Prevent Struck-by Incidents in Construction – April 20, 2020

Construction Safety & Health Network

  • National Stand-Down to Prevent Struck-by Incidents in Construction – April 20, 2020

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

  • Work Zones Safety Tips
  • Work Zone Safety: Shareable Material

National Asphalt Pavement Association

  • WatchForUs | National Work Zone Awareness Week Campaign

National Demolition Association

  • Webinar: Virtual National Stand-Down to Prevent Struck-by Incidents – Q&A Panel

National Safety Council

  • Safer Work Zones
  • Stand-Down to Prevent Struck-By Incidents Goes Virtual

Roads & Bridges

  • States Encourage Safety by Observing National Work Zone Awareness Week

OSHA Training Institute Education Center

  • National Work Zone Awareness Week Promotes Roadway Work Zone Safety

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Date updated: 7/7/2020

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