Training Information

Flagging Certification:
If you are interested in receiving flagger certification, and you are not a WSDOT employee, please visit our Safety Office, or contact the Evergreen Safety Council at (800) 521-0778.

If you are a WSDOT employee, and you would like flagger certification, please contact your Regional Safety Officer to obtain flagger training and cards.

Work Zone Supervisor Training:

WZTCS Classes:
The 3-day "Work Zone Traffic Control Supervisor" course code
is A42. The 1-day recertification class is course code BQD. WSDOT employees
may be placed onto "course request" lists for the specific TCS training that
they require. They may contact their office training representative to be
placed onto the request wait list.

Certification Information:
WSDOT does not process or issue certifications.
This is done by each training organization. The steps needed to become
a certified Traffic Control Supervisor are as follows:

1) Have 2000 hours of traffic control experience. This experience may come from working with traffic control on a maintenance or survey crew. It may include being a project inspector on construction projects requiring traffic control. An employee developing or reviewing traffic control plans gains traffic control experience as well. The combination of the above allowable experience, in traffic control, must equal at least one year, or 2000 hours. This experience is required to become a certified
Traffic Control Supervisor.

2) Documentation of traffic control experience. To document the traffic control experience, a person must have two letters of recommendation that verify their work with traffic control. The letters must not come from the employee attempting
to become a certified TSC. One letter needs to come from a supervisor, either current or past. The other letter must come from a resource that knows the employees present or past work experience.

3) Take the Work Zone Traffic Control Supervisor's course (code A42).
Each person must attend the two and one-half day course and pass the written test with at least 80%. After the course has been taken, the test passed, and the experience accepted, a TCS card will be issued to the employee.

4) Possess a valid Flagger Certification Card.

Contractor Work Zone Supervisor Training:
Training programs are available for contractors through:

Evergreen Safety Council 1-800-521-0778
Northwest Laborers Union 1-800-240-9112
American Traffic Safety Services Association 1-877-642-4637
Marlin Zimmerman, WSDOT Traffic Training Program Manager 360-705-7295
Steve Haapala, State Work Zone Training Specialist - 360-705-7241

Other Training:

MCOT Training: Maintenance Traffic Control Operations Training Course
Available to WSDOT employees -- thru ATMS Course Code BTZ

This course is designed to train personnel in those principles and practices of traffic control, which will enable them to provide the safest and most efficient operation of temporary traffic control in work zones.

QuickZone Training

Traffic Control Plan Design (TCPD) Training: This Transpeed training course is no longer available. WSDOT is in the process of developing new training that will meet the needs of designers and be in compliance with the new federal rule on work zone safety and mobility.

Work Zone Safety Stand Down Plan

Work Zone Safety Stand Down Summary