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Kentucky Local Technical Assistance Program - September 08, 2021 | |
Roads Scholar and Road Master
Are you graduating from RSRM this year?
If you believe so, or you want to check and see how many credits you have or have remaining, contact Becky Boston for a copy of your transcript.
Becky can be reached by email at becky.boston@uky.edu or by phone 859-257-4509.
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Webinar Wednesday offers free, interactive webinars. Each webinar will be worth one professional development hour, and will be recorded for training purposes.
For more information, visit www.kyt2.com/web and remember to bookmark or download our interactive PDF on the bottom of this newsletter so you can stay up to date on our latest webinars that we have available. Register below.
All webinars are held in Eastern Standard Time.
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Would You Follow You?
The Importance of Empathic Leadership
September 22
9:00 am - 10:00 am
If you were one of your employees, would you consider you a good leader? What does that mean in the ever changing world of public leadership? This webinar is a brief look into the concept of empathic leadership, leading with both heart and mind. We will cover how to cultivate an open and respectful work environment that is ultimately able to deal with the tough parts of public service and tough times like global health pandemics.
Speaker: Carolyn Miller is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor's of Science in History, from Pennsylvania State University with a Master's in Human Resources and Employment Relations, and East Carolina University with a post-graduate certificate in Community College Instruction. She is the human resources and risk management director for Chatham County, North Carolina and is the principal instructor in their comprehensive in-house training curriculum on leadership, management, and supervision. She also works with the North Carolina State University Local Transportation Assistance Program, instructing courses in supervision, leadership and managing conflict.
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LIFESAVERS WEBINAR SERIES | |
The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety in partnership with an Executive Committee of professionals representing the four E’s (engineering, education, emergency services, and enforcement) have developed a series of webinars to bring together best practices, research and innovations to the transportation industry.
These webinars will be offered quarterly from 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. EST. The sessions provide a glimpse of the great sessions you will see at the 2023 Kentucky Lifesavers Conference. Participants will receive one professional development hour (PDH) for each session they attend.
Join us for our nex webinar series. Register below!
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Occupant Protection is an important initiative. Kentucky has put in place many initiatives to keep Kentuckians safe on our state’s roadways. Join us as we discuss the Buckle Up Phone Down and Local Hero's initiatives.
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Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Online Training | |
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September 09, 2021
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
TIM training is a free training available through the National Highway Institute.
Kentucky's Traffic Incident Management (TIM) training program addresses the challenges of moving people and goods efficiently and safely on the nation's highways. The Program focuses on response efforts that protect motorists and responders while minimizing the impact on traffic flow. TIM efforts include detecting, verifying and responding to incidents; clearing the incident scene; and restoring traffic flow. Based on the severity or type of incident, first responders may represent law enforcement, fire, transportation, emergency medical services, public safety, towing and recovery, public works and hazardous materials (HAZMAT) disciplines.
Using a multiple discipline perspective, first responders will learn how to operate more efficiently and collectively. The training covers many topics including recommended TIM procedures and techniques.
Due to General Order OM-B-13 published by the Kentucky State Police (KSP), all wrecker service owners and drivers shall complete the National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training (TIM) in order to remain on KSP’s wrecker log.
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Kentucky Transportation Center | |
Research Reports
Since 1981, the Kentucky Transportation Center (KTC) has been a leader at the state and national levels in multidisciplinary transportation research. The Center uses applied research to provide a safe, efficient, environmentally sound and fiscally responsible transportation system that delivers economic opportunity and enhances the quality of life in Kentucky. Below, is one of the most recent reports released:
Evaluating the Safety Cultures of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Maintenance Crews
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Based on surveys of maintenance crews, the overall safety climate score of KYTC is 3.71. Qualitatively, the Cabinet’s safety climate can be characterized as compliant and transitioning toward proactive. Anecdotally, this aligns with efforts from KYTC’s Office of Safety. Historically, it has sought compliance as the goal. But a few years ago Cabinet leadership recognized the moral imperative and value of achieving excellence in safety and dedicated effort and resources to bolster employee safety. The safety climate reflects these efforts, as it is moving in a more proactive direction. Changes in climate and culture do not happen swiftly or easily, but through constant dedication, attention, and effort by all employees. Promisingly, a couple elements of safety climate already qualify as proactive — Aligning and Integrating Safety as a Value and Improving Supervisory Leadership. This means that maintenance superintendents believe safety is valued at KYTC and that it is communicated through supervisors. Two categories — Employee Risk Perception and Accountability at All Levels — had lower scores, suggesting that improvements can be made to enhance risk perception skills and build robust accountability structures. When looking at demographic drivers of the safety climate score, level of training and frequency of experiencing a previous incident play significant roles. As employees receive safety training, they tend to assign lower ratings to the safety climate. In addition, the more safety-related incidents an employee has been directly involved in, the lower the safety climate scores reported. Notably, years of experience did not have an impact on scores.
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