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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Program invites all emergency medical service (EMS), fire and rescue, law enforcement, public works, towing and recovery, transportation, 911 communicators, and other traffic incident response professions to participate in the National Kickoff webinar for CRSW.
Mark Kehrli, FHWA Office of Transportation Operations Director, will host this webinar which honors traffic incident responders, provides an overview of activities taking place across the country, and connects all responder stakeholders to resources that help them become champions and advocates for responder safety.
The event will begin with a special message from the FHWA Administrator, Sean McMaster. The webinar will also feature the following TIM champions:
- Jim Austrich, FHWA TIM Program Manager
- Lieutenant Patrick Kepp, Montgomery County Department of Police
- Todd Leiss, Emergency Responder Safety Institute
- Anne Reshadi, Director of the Bureau of Traffic Operations, Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Please join this National Kickoff webinar to learn about the actions that response leaders and every responder can take to advance the safety of incident responders and road users. We encourage every boots-on-the-ground traffic incident responder, and response leadership to attend this Kickoff Webinar and sign the National CRSW Proclamation.
Visit the FHWA CRSW (https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/tim/crash_responder.htm) or NOCOE CRSW (https://transportationops.org/TIM/CRSW) pages to learn more about Crash Responder Safety Week.