For some, summer is the time for vacation and enjoying good weather, but for everyone, whether you’re driving down the road or working on it, it’s time for summer highway projects. This is because the summer isn’t just good for travel and leisure—it’s also ideal for construction work.
Whether you own or manage a contract construction crew or work for the government, keeping costs down while ensuring the safety of your workers is a priority. However, there are a number of challenges to safety and inefficiency inherent to highway work.
To name a few challenges, there are vehicles speeding down the road not far from construction equipment and workers, loud traffic, workers spread across long distances, and the noise and danger of using the construction equipment itself.
The best way to improve safety while also increasing efficiency for summer highway projects is by outfitting workers with push-to-talk (PTT) two-way radios. So how do they do it?
Fast Response
Accidents can happen during summer highway projects. Whether it’s a vehicle on the highway hitting a vehicle or a worker, or a workplace construction accident, there’s a level of danger to the work that is unavoidable to some extent.
When an accident does happen, it may not be obvious to everyone working right away. PTT two-way radios allow workers to quickly and easily notify everyone of the situation.
Also, sometimes crews are working on stretches of highway with poor cell signals where cell phones can’t reach emergency services. Peak PTT two-way radios use a 4G-LTE signal that is stronger and more reliable than the average cell phone, ensuring that you can always get a message out to receive emergency medical service.
Noise-canceling
Not only do Peak PTT two-way radios ensure clear messages due to their reliable service network, but they also feature noise-canceling technology. This allows workers to send and receive clear messages even in loud environments around construction equipment and passing vehicles on the highway.
Communication Across Long Distances
Highway construction and maintenance crews can be spread across long sections of highway, making communication and coordination between workers and workers and supervisors difficult. Cell phones are unreliable, a pain to use while working, and walking can take too long. Also, sometimes there may be several crews working on different projects and they need to contact a manager that’s not at their project site.
In any case, distance can create significant communication barriers for summer highway project crews. Two-way radios make communication easy, and with a virtually unlimited range, distance is no issue.
Upgrade your summer highway project team with Peak PTT Two-Way Radios today.