Roads & Bridges is kicking off National Work Zone Awareness Week with a conversation featuring Lori Diaz, director of the American Traffic Safety Services (ATSS) Foundation, and Stacy Tetschner, president and CEO of the American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA).
In the interview, Tetschner shares what ATSSA is doing right now to make work zones safer, from new initiatives and training programs to emerging technology that’s changing the game.
Diaz talks about how the ATSS Foundation supports families who have lost loved ones in work zone tragedies. She also reflects on the impact of the National Work Zone Memorial, a traveling tribute that honors fallen workers and helps keep their stories at the center of the industry’s push for safer roads.
About the Author
Gavin Jenkins, Head of Content
Head of Content
Gavin Jenkins is an award-winning journalist based in Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, VICE, Narrative.ly, Prevention, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Beijing Review.
In 2020, two stories he wrote for Pitt Med Magazine earned three Golden Quill Awards from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania. “Surviving Survival” won Excellence in Corporate, Marketing and Promotional Communications – Written, Medical/Health, while “Oct. 27, 2018: Pittsburgh’s Darkest Day, and the Mass Casualty Response” won Excellence in Written Journalism, Magazines – Medical/Health, as well as the Ray Sprigle Memorial Award: Magazines, a Best in Show award.
After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in 2003, he covered sports for the Bedford Gazette, in Bedford, Pa., and the Martinsville Bulletin, in Martinsville, Va. In 2006, he returned to Pittsburgh to write for Trib Total Media. Based out of the Kittanning Leader Times, he worked for the Trib for two years, and then he moved to Shenzhen, China, to teach English and freelance. After two years in China, he earned an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh.
When he's not at work, he's usually playing with his border-collie mix, Bob.