Often people tend to think that using electronics or technology automatically falls into the realm of an “engineering control” rather than an administrative control. Today’s local news story is a perfect example of this. We have this overpass in Cincinnati that is notorious for catching trucks. I have a local client that I would spend 1-week each month doing work for, and to get to their facilities, I would pass under this overpass twice daily. I lost count of the number of times I saw a truck stuck or parts of a truck lying in the roadway. So today, the city announced plans to “prevent problems at the troubled bridge.” But their language and actions are in conflict, as one says “engineering”, when in reality it is just an administrative control.
Real world difference between engineering controls and administrative controls
