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Monthly briefing

Work Zone Brief

For people who run work zone crews and write the specs: funding, rules, research, and how safety gets bought.

By Carolin Ross, Co-Founder, RoadDefender Works. Once a month, about three minutes.

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What you get each month

One number that tells the story

A single chart on the risk your crews face, built from public data.

What changed, and what to do

The rules, funding and research that moved this month, and one practical step.

Charts for your own slides

Every chart is sourced and slide-ready, free to download for your next safety meeting or board deck.

Latest issue

Chart: 850 killed and 42,094 injured in U.S. work zone crashes in 2024; 60% of highway contractors had a vehicle crash into a work zone last year; close calls with crews have no national count.

November 2026

We count the crashes, not the close calls

Every work zone death and injury gets counted. The shifts where something almost happened don't show up anywhere.

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