The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Bridge Inspector’s Reference Manual (BIRM) is a comprehensive manual on programs, procedures, and techniques for inspecting and evaluating a variety of in-service highway bridges. BIRM serves as the basis of a comprehensive National Highway Institute training program in bridge-safety inspection. This 4 hour course is based on BIRM’s Chapter 2, Safety Fundamentals of Bridge Inspection, and discusses: 1) Duties of the bridge inspection team
2) Safety fundamentals of bridge inspectors
3) Temporary Traffic control
4) Inspection equipment
5) methods of access
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