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8-4. Roles and Responsibilities.

Supervisors

Ensure employees understand workplace signs, tags, and labels, and any special precautions required.
Provide, maintain, and manage traffic signs, barricades, and other traffic control devices.
Use and train flaggers according to specific guidelines and ensure they have the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Employees

Follow signage directives.
Report any issues with signs such as being missing, damaged, or obscured.

Flaggers

Wear appropriate PPE including high-visibility apparel, safety-toed footwear, and hard hats.
Communicate effectively with the team and the public, and manage traffic efficiently.

USACE Sign Program Manager (USACE ONLY)

Ensure compliance with the Sign Standards Program.
Approve all orders for signs at civil works projects.

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8-3. Who is responsible to ensure employees understand workplace signs, tags, and labels, and any special precautions required?

Host employers

USACE Program Managers

Flaggers

Supervisors

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EM 385-1-1 Paragraph 8-4.

8-4. Roles and Responsibilities.

a.  Supervisors.

(1)  Ensure proper signage is in place and employees are trained/informed on the meaning of the various signs, tags, and labels used throughout the workplace, and on any special precautions that may be required (see para 8-3.a).

(2)  Provide, erect, maintain, and remove all traffic signs, barricades, and other traffic control devices necessary for maintenance of traffic.

(3)  Use flaggers where required and ensure they are trained in flagging operations according to paragraph 8-3.b and have appropriate PPE before placing them in traffic.

(4)  USACE-ONLY. Appoint a USACE Sign Program Manager according to ER 1130-2-500.

b.  Employees.  All employees must follow signage directives and inform their supervisors of missing, damaged, or obscured signs.

c.  Flaggers.  All flaggers must wear appropriate PPE according to chapter 5 and OSHA, to include high-visibility apparel, safety-toed footwear, and hard hats.  Flaggers must also communicate with each other and with the foreman, and effectively signal and direct the affected public.  (8-4.c)

d.  USACE Sign Program Manager (USACE ONLY).  The USACE Sign Program Manager is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Sign Standards Program according to ER 1130-2-500, to include approving all orders for signs at civil works projects.  (8-4.d)