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Below are all the resources
NTMIC "Anatomy of a Traffic Incident"
This document from the National Traffic Incident Management Coalition provides basic information about what happens in traffic incident response. This information is intended for use in public education campaigns.
Upload Date:
12/17/2012
30.42 KB
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"It's No Picnic Out Here" PSA
This video is a 30 second public service announcement reminding the public that responders are doing hard and dangerous work to keep roads safer and that they should slow down and give responders room to work safely. The format available here is WMV for PC. For other versions, including QuickTime for Mac, please visit the "It's No Picnic Out Here" PSA page: http://www.respondersafety.com/NoPicnic.aspx
Upload Date:
12/21/2012
5.75 MB
Windows Media Video
"Marked and Seen"
This video shows examples high visibility markings on fire, EMS, and police vehicles, including products for retrofitting fire apparatus built before to the NFPA 1901 Standard for Automotive Fire Apparatus went into effect in 2009. The format available here is WMV for PC. For other versions, including QuickTime for Mac, please visit the "Marked and Seen" page: http://www.respondersafety.com/MarkedAndSeen.aspx
Upload Date:
12/21/2012
179.55 MB
Windows Media Video
"Move It" PSA
The US Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration are addressing the problem of secondary accidents and congestion on the highways caused by minor accidents. This PSA produced by Stonehouse Media Incorporated® for the CVVFA/Emergency Responder Safety Institute with funding from the Federal Highway Administration teaches drivers to stay in their vehicles and move their car off the road to safety if no one is seriously injured and your car is drivable. "Move it"
Upload Date:
11/15/2016
37.90 MB
MP4 Video
"Slow Down Move Over" PSA
This video is a 30 second public service announcement encouraging the public to slow down and move over when they see responders working on the roadway. The format available here is WMV for PC. For other versions, including QuickTime for Mac, please visit the "Slow Down Move Over" PSA page: http://www.respondersafety.com/SDMO.aspx
Upload Date:
12/21/2012
34.32 MB
MP4 Video
10 Tips Move Over Resource
10 Practical Tips for Responding and Operating on Roadway and Highway Incidents.
Upload Date:
1/13/2020
160.35 KB
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2019 ERSI Struck-By-Vehicle Fatality Report
The Emergency Responder Safety Institute (ERSI), a committee of the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen’s Association (CVVFA), reports that vehicles struck and killed 44 emergency responders who were working various types of roadway incidents in 2019.
Upload Date:
1/13/2020
187.45 KB
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1.92 MB
Microsoft Word Document
Blocking Procedures at Roadway Incidents
This downloadable video program is a short version of the Blocking Procedures at Roadway Incidents module on the Responder Safety Learning Network.
Upload Date:
7/18/2012
174.00 MB
MP4 Video
Developing Traffic Control Assistant Training Programs
This document from the Emergency Responder Safety Institute and the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen’s Association assists public safety agencies in developing traffic control training programs. Topics addressed include policy development, qualifications, performance objectives, recruitment, content development, implementation, and examples of successful model programs.
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5/7/2008
1.67 MB
Adobe PDF File
Emergency Vehicle Visibility and Conspicuity Study
This report, produced in partnership between the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) and the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA), analyzes emergency vehicle visibility and conspicuity with an eye toward expanding efforts in these areas to improve vehicle and roadway operations safety for all emergency responders. Emphasis in this report is placed on passive visibility/conspicuity treatments. Key finidings include additional research on emergency vehicle visibility and
conspicuity in the United States, with particular emphasis on the interaction between civilian drivers and emergency vehicles during responses and on incident scenes.
Upload Date:
12/27/2012
2.18 MB
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Evaluation of Chemical and Electric Flares
Following a brief literature review, this research project conducted a comparison of the different flares and related traffic control devices in order to identify and examine alternative highway flare systems utilizing chemical or electric sources of energy to determine their suitability and visibility.
Upload Date:
12/21/2012
698.76 KB
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Fire Apparatus Emergency Lighting Study Report
This report details the history of how the current fire apparatus lighting standards were developed, summarizes the last 20 years of research on emergency lighting, and has the results of a study done in May 2019 specifically addressing what changes should be made to fire apparatus lighting standards in response to the change to LED lighting.
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6/20/2019
5.30 MB
Adobe PDF File
Florida Highway Patrol Emergency Lighting Research & Prototype Evaluation
Beginning in 1998, the Florida Highway Patrol began to examine safety issues
surrounding the roadside environment in which we do much of our work. This began with a
holistic approach, looking into all aspects of the issue. This includes working with
manufacturers to make the vehicles safer, the installation of aftermarket equipment, policies and
procedures for making the stops and working outside the vehicle as a pedestrian.
Upload Date:
3/27/2013
1.71 MB
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Highway Incident Safety and MUTCD Guidelines for Emergency Responders
The Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen’s Association (CVVFA) and their
Emergency Responder Safety Institute (ERSI) developed this manual and the
accompanying online-based training course for first responders and other
personnel who respond to roadway incident scenes. In the initial minutes of a
roadway incident, responders often find themselves operating in moving traffic
at great peril.
Upload Date:
11/6/2013
1.31 MB
Adobe PDF File
Highway Lane Designations and Terminology
This reference card from the Emergency Responder Safety Institute illustrates the accepted highway lane numbering system and nomenclature for describing roadways in consistent terms.
Upload Date:
5/9/2011
205.95 KB
Adobe PDF File
336.50 KB
Microsoft Word Document
Law Enforcement Stops & Safety Subcommittee: Staff Study 2004.
This 2004 Staff Study Report documents the work to date of the Law Enforcement Stops and Safety Subcommittee. It includes technology, practices, and research related to improving officer safety and preventing police vehicle crashes. Recommendations are included at the end of each section of the re¬port as benchmarks against which to measure future successes to improve the safety of police vehicles, highway environment and design, and traffic stop practices.
Upload Date:
12/21/2012
648.68 KB
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Managing Emergency Incidents on the Roadway: Instructor Manual
This document from the Emergency Responder Safety Institute and the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen’s Association is the Instructor Manual for the course “Managing Emergency Incidents on the Roadway.” This program was developed to provide emergency services leaders and instructors with information and tools on traffic incident management that they can use to train other emergency responders in there departments or agencies. This Manual includes both classroom management information, full speaker’s notes for the training presentation, and a tabletop exercise.
Upload Date:
5/7/2008
7.16 MB
Adobe PDF File
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is a compilation of national standards for all traffic control devices, including road markings, highway signs, and traffic signals. The MUTCD is used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public traffic.
Upload Date:
12/21/2012
32.86 MB
Adobe PDF File
Map of State Move Over Laws
This color-coded map indicates the U.S. states with Move Over laws. Courtesy of AAA.
Upload Date:
12/2/2010
31.61 KB
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29.00 KB
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1.32 MB
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Microsoft Word Document
Move-Over Laws Chart
This chart summarizes the Move Over laws in U.S. states, with code citations and links to full text of code where available. Courtesy of AAA.
Upload Date:
12/2/2010
207.19 KB
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National Census of Fatal Occupation Injuries in 2005
This report summarizes the data on fatal occupational injuries in the year 2005, covering all occupational groups. Fatal highway accidents were the most frequent type of fatal workplace event. Data is broken down in several ways, including by type of incident, by industry, by occupation, by demographics, and by State. Multiple full data tables are presented.
Upload Date:
12/21/2012
91.86 KB
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National Unified Goal Bookmark
This bookmark publicizes the National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management and its strategies.
Upload Date:
12/17/2012
1.93 MB
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National Unified Goal FAQ
This document answers Frequently Asked Questions about need for and development of the National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management.
Upload Date:
12/17/2012
827.90 KB
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National Unified Goal Talking Points
This document provides talking points for speakers presenting the National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management.
Upload Date:
12/17/2012
135.00 KB
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National Unified Goal Trifold Brochure
This trifold brochure summarizes the National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management, how it was developed, what organizations were involved in developing it. Detail on the strategies is not included in this document.
Upload Date:
12/17/2012
1.24 MB
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New York State Emergency Traffic Control and Scene Management Guidelines
These guidelines were established to provide incident responders in the state of New York a uniform approach to emergency traffic control and scene management. The guidelines include incident response priorities, incident classification, responder safety, responder vehicles, establishing the traffic incident management area, staging, breakdown, and investigation.
Upload Date:
12/21/2012
2.75 MB
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NTMIC "Benefits of Traffic Incident Management"
This paper from the National Traffic Incident Management Coalition summarizes currently available information about the benefits of Traffic Incident Management (TIM), including congestion relief, economic savings, energy conservation and environmental benefits, public health and safety improvements, reduced mortality and morbidity, increased responder safety, reduced public safety personnel requirements, and increased customer satisfaction. The document also discusses ways to measure these benefits.
Upload Date:
12/17/2012
1.78 MB
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NTMIC "Example Strategies for Building Stronger State TIM Programs"
This document from the National Traffic Incident Management Coalition reviews examples of traffic incident management (TIM) strategies to build stronger state TIM programs. These strategies include interagency strategic planning, statewide best practices guidelines, stronger working partnerships between agencies, performance goals, and workable TIM organizational structures. The document also summarizes example state and local TIM programs.
Upload Date:
12/17/2012
446.97 KB
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NTMIC "Lane Designation Terminology"
This document from the National Traffic Incident Management Coalition provides a common terminology for use by responders during traffic incidents when identifying the location of the incident and the preferred position for arriving response vehicles and equipment. The document encourages response agencies to adopt this common terminology.
Upload Date:
12/17/2012
1.32 MB
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NTMIC "Prompt, Reliable Incident Communications"
This document from the National Traffic Incident Management Coalition provides a framework for improving incident communications, including response planning, incident notification protocols, public advisories, emergency routing, CAD-ITS integration, and emerging communications technologies.
Upload Date:
12/17/2012
543.74 KB
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NTMIC "Responder Safety"
This document from the National Traffic Incident Management Coalition reviews available data on responder fatalities that occurred while working on the roadways and suggests strategies to reduce the incidence of these fatalities.
Upload Date:
12/17/2012
483.53 KB
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NTMIC "Safe, Quick Clearance"
This document from the National Traffic Incident Management Coalition proposes strategies to achieve safe, quick clearance of traffic incidents.
Upload Date:
12/17/2012
919.63 KB
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On-Duty Deaths of Fire-Police Officers, 1991-2010
This report from the National Fire Protection Association summarizes the data for on-duty deaths of fire-police officers from 1991-2010, including demographic characteristics, nature of injury, and type of duty. Further detail on the specifics of some incidents is also presented.
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12/2/2011
76.13 KB
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PIO & Public Educator Engagement Infographic
This infographic displays some of the highest-impact facts and statistics about roadway incident safety. Unfortunately, we don't have all the statistics we would like, but many entities continue to work on sharpening the picture of the risks first responders and the public face at emergency scenes on the roadway.
Upload Date:
7/17/2018
381.54 KB
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PIO & Public Educator Engagement Press Package
This press package on safe driving practices when passing emergency scenes for PIOs and public educators to use for public education includes a backgrounder on safe driving practices, an infographic, a push card, sample media advisories, and sample media contact emails.
Upload Date:
7/17/2018
5.79 MB
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PIO & Public Educator Engagement Pushcard
This push card, sponsored by ResponderSafety.com, contains important safety messages for the public about what actions to take when approaching and passing an emergency scene on the roadway. The push card is appropriate for distribution at rest areas, service plazas, community events, community presentations, driver education schools, motor vehicle bureaus, and other driver information distribution opportunities.
Upload Date:
7/17/2018
2.09 MB
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1.20 MB
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
PPE For Responders Working In or Near Moving Traffic (PDF format)
This presentation is an excerpt from the University of Extrication “Safe Parking” highway safety program by Ron Moore, Battalion Chief, McKinney, TX FD. The segment in this presentation addresses the issue of proper PPE for responders working in or near moving traffic.
Upload Date:
7/21/2008
25.59 MB
Adobe PDF File
Roadway Safety Shorts: How to Demobilize a TIMA
When the incident response has wrapped up and all responders are ready to depart, the last task is to retrieve temporary traffic control devices used to mark out the Traffic Incident Management Area.
Upload Date:
2/14/2020
228.70 MB
MP4 Video
Roadway Safety Shorts: How to Safely Pass an Emergency Scene
Distracted, impaired, and careless driving kills and injures first responders and also often totals emergency vehicles. Motorists must help in the effort to reduce the number of emergency responder struck-by-vehicle deaths and injuries to zero.
Upload Date:
2/14/2020
511.97 MB
MP4 Video
Roadway Safety Shorts: How to Set a Block
Of all the safety practices for working a roadway incident scene, one of the most important is setting a block with the largest and heaviest emergency vehicle available at the scene.
Upload Date:
2/14/2020
483.86 MB
MP4 Video
Roadway Safety Shorts: How to Set a Cone Taper
Setting a proper cone taper in the Transition Area prior to the main blocking vehicle closes the lane or lanes necessary to indicate a protected work area for emergency response personnel.
Upload Date:
2/14/2020
299.51 MB
MP4 Video
Simplified Guide to the Incident Command System for Transportation Professionals
This guide from the Federal Highway Administration introduces the Incident Command System (ICS) to stakeholders who may be called upon to provide specific expertise, assistance, or material dur¬ing highway incidents but who may be largely unfamiliar with ICS organization and operations. Topics covered include the ICS organizational structure, unified command, advance planning and coordination, and implementation.
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5/7/2008
2.12 MB
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Social Media PSA Move It
A short video Public Service Announcement on Move It Laws meant to be shared on social media.
Upload Date:
7/17/2018
20.87 MB
MP4 Video
Task Analysis for Emergency Responders at Roadway Incidents
This report from the Emergency Responder Safety Institute details the findings of a panel convened to review typical functions performed by emergency responders at roadway incidents in an effort to develop a set of job performance requirements for the job functions critical to safe emergency operations at roadway incidents. This report discusses the process utilized, outlines the specific job performance requirements for critical positions assigned to emergency responders and provides guidance on the use of the requirements by potential users and training organizations.
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8/18/2009
158.28 KB
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Ten Cones of Highway Safety
This video makes plain the dangers of working on the roadway, the grave reality of line of duty deaths occurring on the roadway, and explains the “ten cones of highway safety” for responders to practice to work more safely on the road.
Upload Date:
12/21/2012
390.40 MB
MP4 Video
The First 15 Minutes - Decision Making at Roadway Incidents
This Power Point program provides training for responders on the first arriving apparatus at a highway incident. The first 15 minutes of an incident often sets the tone for the entire response. Learn how practices such as “windshield size up” can make the scene safer.
Upload Date:
9/6/2013
26.74 MB
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
The Past, Present, and Future of Responder Safety at Roadway Incidents
This paper summarizes the proceedings of a workshop convened by the Emergency
Responder Safety Institute during the 2018 National Traffic Incident Response Awareness
Week to envision the future of roadway incident response safety and traffic incident
management and as a Twenty Year Review of the original 1999 White Paper "Protecting Emergency Responders on the Highway".
Upload Date:
4/17/2019
3.55 MB
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Towing and Recovery Association of America Vehicle Identification Guide
This reference card illustrates the different classes of vehicles and lists the needed vehicle details to ensure that communications with a towing and recovery company are accurate and thus the correct tow truck type is dispatched for the vehicle needing assistance.
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5/7/2008
119.98 KB
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Traffic Incident Management Handbook
This handbook from the Federal Highway Administration includes the latest advances in TIM programs and practices across the country, and offers practitioners insights into the latest innovations in TIM tools and technologies, including strategic, tactical, and support elements.
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12/20/2012
1.43 MB
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Traffic Incident Management Systems
This report from the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) provides guidance to local-level fire departments on compliance with the Department of Transportation’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and the National Fire Service Incident Management System Consortium’s (NFSIMSC’s) Model Procedures Guide for Highway Incidents. This document details incident case studies, describes equipment to improve highway safety, shows how to set up a safe traffic incident management area, explains incident command for highway incidents, and lists best practices and other sources of information on effective highway incident operations.
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5/31/2008
4.87 MB
Adobe PDF File
37.51 MB
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
Visitors Center Loop
This video loop is meant to be used at Visitors Centers. It contains PSAs for: Slow Down Move Over, It’s No Picnic Out Here, Move It, and Leave Your Phone Alone.
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8/6/2018
240.18 MB
MP4 Video
Watch Out Behind You!
A full operations level training program that may be taught in modules. Suggested presenters should be at least a level one instructor. Suggested teaching time is 4 hours total.
Upload Date:
9/6/2013
213.06 MB
ZIP file
29.00 KB
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