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Occupational Medicine 1998;48:199-202
© 1998 Society of Occupational Medicine

case-report

The construction flagperson: A target for injury

J. Baron, T. L. Strome and L. H. Francescutti

Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Oral Health Sciences, University of Alberta 13-103 Clinical Sciences Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2G3

A road construction ‘flagger’ is a construction crew member whose responsibility it is to safely co-ordinate vehicle traffic through road worksites. Flaggers are suffering injuries and fatalities at the worksite as a result of being struck by moving vehicles, both construction and commuter. These incidents are largely preventable with a more defensive flagger training programme. A cross-Canada provincial survey of occupational health and safety organizations revealed no national co-ordination and standardization in flagperson training. Statistics concerning flagger injury and fatality are disjointed and incomplete, and as such are not useful for evaluating and validating training and job performance. We recommend a revisiting of flagperson training standards and that greater effort is taken in gathering data specifically on flagger injuries and fatalities.

Keywords      Construction safety; flagger; injury prevention

Received       24 February 1997
Accepted        9 September 1997

Correspondence and reprint requests to: L. H. Francescutti, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Oral Health Sciences, University of Alberta, 13-103 Clinical Sciences Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2G3. Tel: (+1) 403 492-6546; Fax: (+1) 403 492-0364; email: Louis.Francescutti{at}ualberta.ca


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