Minnesota Department of Transportation

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Work Zone Safety

Work Zone Safety Awareness Program

The MnDOT Work Zone Safety Awareness Program (WZSAP) is a public education program designed to promote safe driving in winter and summer highway work zones. The video material provided below offers guidance to motorists on what they should do when encountering snowplows and work zones. The videos can be used in conjunction with teaching Defensive Driving and Driver's Education courses.

Video presentations

Construction Work Zone and Winter Driving Safety Video (YouTube)

Video focuses on safely navigating through a construction work zone and snowplow operations during winter conditions. 

Summer Driving Safety with the Minnesota Twins (YouTube)

Video focuses the Polk family as they make their way to a Minnesota Twins game. They encounter multiple summer construction work zones. Promotes 511 traveler information website tools and how to locate construction projects, traffic control devices and what they mean when navigating through a work zone.

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