The document describes the Roadway Work Zone Safety Awareness Awards Program, which honors efforts to improve safety in roadwork zones. The program recognizes outstanding outreach, training, and technology innovation projects through awards presented annually. Eligible entrants include individuals and organizations involved in improving work zone safety. Awards are judged based on criteria such as effectiveness, creativity, and potential to spread safety benefits. Winners will be publicized industry-wide to promote continuous safety advances.

1. Honoring outstanding efforts to reduce roadway work zone
construction accidents, injuries and fatalities
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 28
2015 ROADWAY
WORKZONE SAFETY
AWARENESS AWARDS

2. PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The Roadway Work Zone SafetyAwareness Awards Program is a
competition designed by the American Road & Transportation
Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation
(ARTBA-TDF) to honor outstanding efforts to reduce roadway
work zone construction accidents, injuries and fatalities.
Successful achievements are recognized through the bestowal of
an award and publicity efforts spotlighting the winners. By being
recognized as industry leaders, winners of a Roadway Work Zone
Safety Awareness Award will serve as an example to other
organizations for continuous improvement and advancement of
safety in construction work zones. Awards will be presented in
conjunction with the ARTBA National Convention, September
27-29, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pa.
The awards are divided into the following categories:
• Outreach Campaigns
1. National
2. State/Regional
3. Local/Municipal
• Training
1. National
2. State/Regional
3. Local/Municipal
• Innovations in Technology
1. Product
2. Methodology
ELIGIBILITY
The competition is open to individuals and organizations, based
upon submissions concerning a specific program, campaign,
research and/or news article, story, series, or innovation. There
is no limit to the number of entries an organization may submit,
provided that the applications are for different programs, or for
entries of a single program in multiple categories.
Entries are open to projects, products, news accounts, campaigns,
etc. that may have been recognized in other award programs. A
project may be submitted for competition in more than one
category, providing it meets the terms of the category for which it
is submitted. All programs or products submitted must be
published, disclosed or substantially completed prior to the
application closing date.
CATEGORIES
Outreach Campaigns
This category recognizes specific public outreach campaigns or
safety programs by national, state or local agencies and firms
aimed at improving work zone safety. It is open to government,
private, or public/private joint efforts. The target audience for the
outreach campaign may be any group that is impacted by roadway
construction, including motorists, pedestrians, and/or workers.
Worker Training
This category recognizes specific training programs by public or
private sector organizations, with national, state or local scope,
targeted towards improving the safety of workers impacted by
roadway construction.
Innovations in Technology
This award category is open to manufacturers of all types of
equipment or methodologies that integrate develop, or market
innovative technologies; or that demonstrate innovative
applications of existing technologies. This category seeks to
recognize the important role that technology plays in improving
safety in and around work zones for workers and motorists alike.
Products entered in this category must be available to consumers
at the time of application and must include a reference list of five
customers with contact information.
APPLICATION REVIEW
Within all categories, submissions will be evaluated against
submissions of a similar nature, as outlined in each award
category. The projects which solicit the greatest number of votes
in each category will be selected as the winners.
However, in each category, multiple awards may be given, based
upon program size and audience. Likewise, if the determination
is made that no submissions in a category meet the criteria as
outlined, an award in that category may not be issued.
Furthermore, awards may be presented for submissions that do
not solicit the greatest number of votes in a category, yet
nevertheless show exceptional merit. Submissions which receive
such recognition are not precluded from resubmitting an
application for the same category in a subsequent year.
A winning Roadway Work Zone Safety Awareness Award will be
given to only one individual or organization—the award will be
given to the individual or organization named on the entry form
as the applicant. Citations of recognition may be awarded to
other individuals or organizations that contributed to the success
of the submission. Additional awards may be purchased.
ROADWAY WORK ZONE SAFETY AWARENESS AWARDS

3. ROADWAY WORK ZONE SAFETY AWARENESS AWARDS
Judging Criteria
The criteria for the Roadway Work Zone Safety Awareness Awards
are developed and reviewed regularly by ARTBA staff and select
members of ARTBA membership divisions. Selection as an
awards reviewer (judge) is available to all ARTBA members in
good standing. Review of judging criteria is conducted on an
as-needed basis.
Criteria include:
• Originality and/or Creativity
• Effectiveness/Measurable Results on Target Audience
• Level of Promotional Effort
• Implementation Plan
• Value to Industry and the Public
• Ability to Replicate/Transfer
• Relationship of the Program/Innovation to the Mission of the
Sponsoring Organization
• Relationship of the Program/Innovation to the Promotion of
Work Zone Safety
Judging Procedure
Nominations are evaluated by an independent panel of judges.
No member of the independent panel of judges may have an
interest or bias related to the current applications. If a judge
should have such an interest, that judge will be excused from
reviewing the applicable entry(ies) and an alternate will be
appointed.
NOTIFICATION
Winning entrants will be notified on or before September 7, 2015.
PUBLICITY
ARTBA-TDF will make significant and substantial efforts to
promote and publicize the Roadway Work Zone Safety Awareness
Award winners. In addition to posting all winners on-line,
recipients of an award will be honored at a special luncheon
during the ARTBA National Convention, September 27-29, 2015
in Philadelphia, Pa.
The awards ceremony will be appropriate to explain the
significance of the applicants’ achievements and obtain maximum
public relations visibility for the winners of the awards. Winners
of the awards will be announced in press releases and promoted
in ARTBA and National Work Zone Safety Information
Clearinghouse publications and websites.
ARTBA views the awards as an important way to promote work
zone safety around the world and will make substantial efforts to
assure that the achievements recognized by this awards program
receive maximum publicity. Every brief project summary
(500-word description) submitted as part of an application
package will be posted on the National Work Zone Safety
Information Clearinghouse website. This will enable the
Clearinghouse to provide recognition to all members who put
forth an effort to apply for a Roadway Work Zone Safety
Awareness Award.
ARTBA-TDF anticipates that individuals and organizations
recognized by the Roadway Work Zone Safety Awareness Awards
program will benefit substantially by the publicity the award
bestows.
ENTRY MATERIALS
All application materials must be submitted online using the
online application tool.
1. A completed application form
2. Summary of the project (500 words or less)
3. Summary of the project that would be appropriate for a news
press release (200 characters or less)
4. Power Point presentation, of no more than 10 slides
describing the project (slides may include photographs,
drawings / diagrams, clips, and brief explanations)
5. Nomination fee of $300 for ARTBA the public sector and
$400 for the private sector. The application fee may be paid
by credit card using our online store or checks can be made
payable to ARTBA, please denote “WZ Safety Awards” in the
memo line of the check and mail to:
WZ Awards Competition
c/o Accounts Receivable
The ARTBA Building
1219 28th
Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
6. Application fee must be received no later than August 28,
2015.
*ARTBA-TDF reserves the right to use portions of the submis-
sions for promotional purposes. The submission of copyrighted
material for the Roadway Work Zone Safety Awareness Awards
shall constitute a general grant of permission to ARTBA and
ARTBA-TDF to use the materials for promotional purposes.
Questions? Contact ARTBA’s Kashae Williams at
kwilliams@artba.org or 202.289.4434.
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