Everyone knows parts of the United States and Canada have two seasons: winter and road construction. Your employees can easily become upset and distracted when the dreaded orange barrels impede their progress to a service call — especially if it’s an emergency — or the highway becomes a one-lane parking lot.The U.S. National Highway System expects at least 3,000 work zones, or one every 100 miles, during the peak of this construction season. Most of us assume that highway workers are the people at risk, but of the 1,010 persons killed in work zones in 2006, 85 percent were drivers
