SAFETY & HEALTH COMMITTEE
The Safety & Health Committee transitioned to ICT Safe: A Regional Transportation Coalition in 2023
The primary responsibility of this committee was updating regional technical reports on Safety and Health. This committee reviewed and updated regional data and also amended the technical reports through discussions regarding:
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Updating Safety & Health Data Reports
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Strategies for Reducing Crashes in our Region
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Safety concerning all modes of transportation
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Environment Air Quality including Ozone levels
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Assisting in the creation of Educational Awareness Tools
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Exploring new initiatives such as Vision-Zero Goals
HEALTH AND TRANSPORTATION
Bridging health and transportation is important to WAMPO in aiding and improving community health in our region. Since the passage of the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the links between our urban and rural environments and public health have become increasingly evident.