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SCOHTS Strategic plan. Goal 5 – Workforce Development. Overview. Recent Workforce Development Activities SCOHTS Strategic Plan Goal 5 Alabama’s Challenges Discussion. Goal 5 – Workforce Development.
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SCOHTS Strategic plan Goal 5 – Workforce Development
Overview • Recent Workforce Development Activities • SCOHTS Strategic Plan Goal 5 • Alabama’s Challenges • Discussion
Goal 5 – Workforce Development • TRB Joint Subcommittee for Highway Safety WFD Study questions answered in 2006 Research Results Digest • To what extent core competencies for highway safety professionals are incorporated into existing safety curricula • What are the best strategies to expand their application to broader audiences?
Goal 5 – Workforce Development • RRD Study-recommended core competencies • 1: Multidisciplinary Nature of Safety • 2: History and Institutional Setting for Safety Management • 3: Origins, Characteristics, and Use of Crash Data • 4: Contributing Crash Factors, Countermeasures, and Evaluation • 5: Develop, Implement, and Administer a Highway Safety Management Program
Goal 5 – Workforce Development • Findings of the TRB Special Report 289 • Currently, no comprehensive education and training programs cover the core competencies. • For the most part, education and training opportunities are disconnected from one another and from the safety research community. • Whereas safety research is often undertaken in a multidisciplinary manner, education and training tend to be oriented toward a discipline.
Goal 5 – Workforce Development • Findings of the TRB 2007 study – cont. • Most university civil engineering and public health programs do not present safety itself as a discipline, and consequently important safety principles and scientific methods are missing from course content. • Continuing education programs, short courses, and on-the-job training opportunities are designed to cover specific safety topics, program requirements, and skills.
Goal 5 – Workforce Development • TRB SR 289 Recommendations • State Associations Should Forge a Broad-Based Alliance to Advance the Road Safety Profession • The Alliance Should Champion the Road Safety Profession on Multiple Fronts • Early Opportunities for Alliance Support and Action • Use federal workforce training funds • Advocate for road safety education and training • Explore the creation of one or more specialized institutes to provide comprehensive instruction and training for road safety professionals
Goal 5 – Workforce Development • SCOH WFD Resolution (needs AASHTO BOD approval) • Supports AASHTO Strategic Plan Objective 4C addressing issues of workforce recruitment, retention, succession planning, core competencies, and professional development in emerging areas; • Supports WFD goals in many other AASHTO committees • Recognizes rising staff turnover • Identifies efficiency in effectively transferring knowledge through partnering and training • Establishes Special Committee on Workforce Planning and Development
Goal 5 – Workforce DevelopmentImplementation Discussion • G5-Strategy 1 – Promote the highway safety profession in public and private sectors. • G5-S1-Action 1 – Coordinate with safety partners, including the TRB workforce development task force and GHSA • G5-S1-Action 2 – Investigate the concept of a highway safety professional certification led by an AASHTO/GHSA Center of Excellence. • G5-S1-Action 3 – Investigate developing a multi-disciplinary professional society for highway safety with individual members.
Goal 5 – Workforce DevelopmentImplementation Discussion • G5-Strategy 1 – cont. • G5-S1-Action 4 – Educate CEOs to build support for safety in order to develop traffic safety champions. • G5-S1-Action 5 – Encourage states to designate safety professionals at state and regionallevels. • G5-S1-Action 6 – Encourage planning organizations to designate safety professionals for planning.
Goal 5 – Workforce DevelopmentImplementation Discussion • Strategy 2 – Recruit qualified safety professionals to public and private sectors. • G5-S2-Action 1 – Develop a consolidated highway safety job board. • G5-S2-Action 2 – Develop safety core competencies for inclusion into agency organizational structure. • G5-S2-Action 3 – Provide information on the highway safety profession to attract people to the field, e.g., science-based aspect; public health aspect; multidisciplinary, multiple organizations.
Goal 5 – Workforce DevelopmentImplementation Discussion • Strategy 3 – Retain, develop, and sustain qualified safety professionals. • G5-S3-Action 1 – Promote professional development in the science of safety. • G5-S3-Action 2 – Perform and publish salary surveys for highway safety professionals (public and private sector).
Goal 5 – Workforce DevelopmentImplementation Discussion • G5-S3-Action 3 – Create leadership development programs designed to educate safety professionals for organizational leadership positions, e.g., progress beyond safety departments. • G5-S3-Action 4 – Promote effective succession planning as a core element of employee retention and development.
Workforce DevelopmentAlabama Challenges • (Tim develops)
Discussion • TRB Special Report Recommendations for AASHTO? • Additions to the SCOHTS Implementation Plan? • Critical Activities and Timelines?