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  April 8, 2025
  Safety Talk: Asphalt Paving Safety
  Asphalt paving safety generally includes three major areas. These areas are general heavy equipment precautions, precautions for paving operations, and treatment in the case of an accident or emergency.
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  March 11, 2025
  Succeeding in Today's Grant Funded World
  With infrastructure costs escalating, numerous grant o opportunities are available to help fund your projects, but you may not know where to locate those opportunities, or how to apply, this can be confusing or frustrating, or a whole host of other things may come to mind. This short course is intended to help you understand how to succeed in today's grant funded world.
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  February 28, 2025
  Safety Talk: Workplace Housekeeping
  Good housekeeping is an effective way to eliminate potential hazards in the workplace. Good housekeeping practices involve material management and storage throughout your entire workplace. It also includes a material flow plan to ensure minimal handling.
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  January 10, 2025
  Safety Talk: Working Safely Near Overhead Power Lines
  Working with or near power lines can expose workers to electrical hazards, but these dangers can be avoided through safe work practices.
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  January 2, 2025
  Local Government Capitol Connection
  NDACo, along with their local government partners from the ND League of Cities, ND Recreation and Parks, ND School Boards & ND Townships are putting together a joint event during the Legislative Session. This will replace the NDACo County Day. The event is scheduled for Feb. 18 & 19th and will be held at the Bismarck Event Center with a legislative social being held Feb. 18th.
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  December 2, 2024
  Safety Talk: Carbon Monoxide Awareness Month
  Carbon monoxide, more commonly referred to as CO, is a highly toxic gas, produced by devices that burn fuels – often found in our everyday lives. Carbon monoxide can’t be seen, smelled, or heard, but can be extremely dangerous to humans. Carbon monoxide is only detectable with an electronic carbon monoxide sensor.
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  November 4, 2024
  Safety Talk: Staying Fit for Snow Fighting
  With winter weather comes snow fighting and with snow fighting comes fatigue. Unpredictable weather can lead to long difficult hours on the road with few breaks and little sleep. However, there are several things agencies and drivers can do to make sure crews are in good shape to combat Old Man Winter, maintain our roads, and get home safely.
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  November 1, 2024
  Presentations Posted for the 2024 Autonomous Trucking Conference
  UGPTI hosted North Dakota’s first autonomous trucking conference, Autonomous Trucking in North Dakota: Prospects and Challenges, October 16-17, 2024 in Bismarck, ND. The more than 120 attendees included stakeholders from trucking and autonomous vehicle industries, technical experts, highway safety specialists, enforcement personnel, regulatory agency staff, local and tribal government staff and researchers.
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  September 27, 2024
  Safety Talk: Hand Tool Safety
  Employees encounter risks and hazards to injuring their hands more than they are aware of at their workplace. A statistic from NDACo – 20% of all Highway Department claims involve the hands. How are they injuring their hands?
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  August 12, 2024
  Safety Talk: Safe and Sound Week
  Safe + Sound Week is a nationwide event held each August that recognizes the successes of workplace health and safety programs and offers information and ideas on how to keep America's workers safe. This year Safe + Sound Week will provide resources for businesses on Job Hazard Analysis (JHA). These materials will be posted before the start of Safe + Sound Week. Please check back soon!
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  August 1, 2024
  Safety Talk: Backing Safety - Preventing Backover Incidents
  Blind spots behind and around vehicles are not immediately obvious to employees on foot. By training employees on where those blind spots are and how to avoid being in them, employers can prevent some back over incidents.

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