Friday, July 17, 2026, 1:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern/11:00 AM -1:00 PM Mountain
The 2026 Rural Road Safety Awareness Week (RRSAW) campaign focuses on the many modes of travel found in rural communities and the strategies that can help prevent serious injury and fatal crashes on America’s rural roads. This second webinar will focus on:
The presenters include:
Tuesday, August 18th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: Get an overview of safety trends and a national understanding of roadway safety. Also, discuss techniques for safety collaboration, the importance of prioritizing safety over other considerations, and how an individual can become a Road Safety Champion.
Tuesday, August 25th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: This course will equip human factors “non”-experts to better consider the capabilities and limitation of road users and incorporate them into policies and practices. Knowing how road users interact with their vehicle, the roadway, and other road users can also provide useful insights for decision making for construction and maintenance personnel, planners, engineers, public health professionals, and law enforcement.
Tuesday, September 1st, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: Learn why growing positive traffic safety culture can significantly improve road safety in your community and nationwide. Participants will leave the training better understanding the elements that shape traffic safety culture, how those factors interact to affect human behaviors, strategies that can be implemented to improve traffic safety culture among various groups, and ideas about how participants can use their role (and the role of others) in growing a positive traffic safety culture.
Tuesday, September 8th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: This module is an introduction and overview of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). The MUTCD defines the standards by which traffic signs, road surface markings, and signals are designed, installed, and used on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public traffic. This module will explain the need for uniformity of traffic control devices and traffic signals across locations.
Tuesday, September 15th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: This training will discuss the need for transportation, public health, and law enforcement agencies to work together on the road to zero and to see transportation safety from each other’s perspective. Learn the similarities and differences in their respective planning processes, discipline-specific strategies used for improving road safety, and collaborative approaches.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: Learn how to “read the road” as well as the importance of incorporating it in daily activities. The training will include real-world examples so participants can discover potential safety issues during their routine activities. It will also discuss how the road safety audit process can be used to read the road through a more formal approach.
Tuesday, September 29th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: This training is an overview of the safety analysis process and will discuss how it can be applied using two different but complementary methods: traditional site analysis and systemic analysis. This module will help practitioners identify the factors that contribute to crashes and some of the countermeasures used to reduce them. Case studies will be presented to demonstrate practical applications of safety analysis.
Tuesday, October 6th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: Learn how first responders can use and interpret the principles in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) for traffic incidents, emergencies, and disasters. This module includes understanding the duties of first responders and using tools such as emergency vehicle lighting, changeable message signs (CMS), and emergency management signing.
Wednesday, October 7th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: Learn safety solutions that maintenance crews can implement in their regular work. The course includes a hands-on case study to equip crews to identify needs for shoulder drop-offs, right-of-way obstructions, striping and signing, guardrails, mowing, sweeping, patching, drainage, winter maintenance, and others.
Tuesday, October 13th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: A supplement to the National Traffic Incident Management Responder training, this module provides a deeper understanding of tools, recommendations, and materials available for first responders to ensure their safety while working on the side of the road.
Wednesday, October 14th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: Gain an overview of potential hazards for workers and explore preventive measures for improving worker safety. Participants will learn the hierarchy of safety controls for the workplace and specific examples from roadway construction.
Tuesday, October 20th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: Gain a deeper understanding of road safety audits, including the role of a first responder, and how a first responder can contribute to the audit and in implementing findings.
Wednesday, October 21st, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: This course is a deep look at maintenance safety solutions that construction and maintenance personnel can implement daily. It will focus on safety topics using three FHWA documents: Vegetation Control for Safety, A Guide for Local Highway and Street Maintenance Personnel, Maintenance of Drainage Features for Safety, A Guide for Local Street and Highway Maintenance Personnel and Maintenance of Signs and Sign Supports: A Guide for Local Roads Maintenance Personnel as the basis.
Tuesday, October 27th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Trayce Hockstad, ATI, tahockstad@ua.edu
Description: In this module, participants will examine a broad range of legal, procedural, and operational issues that directly affect the work of first responders. By staying informed and adaptive, you ensure your actions align with professional standards and current best practices—leading to more consistent, legally sound, and safety-focused outcomes in the field.
Wednesday, October 28th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Sam Pinzl, CHSC, samantha.pinzl@montana.edu
Description: Explore the relationship between public health and transportation through a public health-rooted approach to transportation safety. Participants will learn key terms and principles of public health practices as well as opportunities to integrate public health approaches and considerations into transportation safety work.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: Road safety countermeasures save lives. These countermeasures can include infrastructure, behavioral, or programmatic and policy implementations. This training will provide an overview of safety countermeasures applicable to local roads with an emphasis on low-cost practices. Discussions include Crash Modification Factors (CMFs), systemic safety analysis, and factors for evaluating and selecting countermeasures.
Wednesday, November 4th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Sam Pinzl, CHSC, samantha.pinzl@montana.edu
Description: Learn how public health data can enhance the diagnosis, prediction, and monitoring of traffic injuries. This will include learning about public health system injury, social determinants of health, and behavioral data sources in communities; evidence on how public health data facilitates a more holistic understanding of the contributors, extent, and nature of traffic injury in communities; and how participants might integrate public health data into their injury prediction, diagnosis, and monitoring programs.
Tuesday, November 10th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: Gain an overview of roadway work zones in rural areas and the minimum standards for various types of work zones covered in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).
THURSDAY, November 19th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11:00 am-1:00 pm MT
Trainer: Sam Pinzl, CHSC, samantha.pinzl@montana.edu
Description: In this module, participants will learn how health culture can enhance local and organizational traffic safety culture. This will include key elements and constructs of traffic safety culture and a culture of health, data considerations and measures indicating positive traffic safety cultures, ways to foster positive traffic safety culture and a culture of health in rural communities, and examples of culture of health and traffic safety culture partnerships in the U.S.
Tuesday, November 24th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET/11 am-1 pm MT
Trainer: Walt Catlett, Safety Circuit Rider
Description: Local Road Safety Plans (LRSPs) are proven to save lives on rural roads. They offer a foundation for consensus and focus that helps communities take proactive steps to reduce and prevent severe crashes in their communities. This training will provide an overview of an LRSP, including how they support safety efforts, the steps to develop an LRSP, and the strategies for implementing an LRSP in rural communities.