Workplace Transport Safety

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Workplace Transport Safety
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Workplace Transport Hazards

• People struck,run over or crushed by vehicles
• Vehicles colliding with each other or
  plant/equipment
• People falling from vehicles
• Items falling from vehicles

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Control Measures
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Design Layout of Road Systems

• Wide enough for largest vehicle permitted
• One way systems where necessary
• Avoid routes close to vulnerable plant
• Avoid sharp and blind bends
• Use mirrors to improve vision
• Make entrances/gateways wide enough

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Design Layout of Road Systems

• Sensible speed limits signpost
• Use speed humps
• Display prominent signs where necessary
• Provide screens for protection from exhaust fumes

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Pedestrians

• Provide separate routes for pedestrians
• Provide barriers or rails at entrances/exits
• Fork lift routes should be indicated by floor
  lines
• Where pedestrian vehicle routes cross,
  crossings should be provided
• Provide subways if necessary

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Pedestrians

• Separate vehicle and pedestrian doors should be
  provided, with vision panels on all doors
• Routes to be used by public should be clearly
  signposted

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Pedestrians
Separate doors for vehicles pedestrians
Vision panel
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Pedestrians
Separate doors for pedestrian access/egress
Vision panel
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Parking Areas

• Suitable sufficient parking areas for work
  private vehicles
• Safe locations drivers should not have to cross
  dangerous areas
• Parking areas should be well lit

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Loading Bays

• Should be at least one exit from lower level
• Safe refuges to prevent crushing
• Edges of bays clearly marked
• Edges may need edge protection
• Protection against adverse weather conditions may
  be necessary

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Road Construction

• Constructed of suitable surfaces
• Kept free of obstructions
• Kept free from articles/substances which cause
  slips/trips/falls
• Constructed of tarmacadam or concrete where
  possible
• Firm and even with suitable drainage
• Avoid steep gradients

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Lighting

• All roads, manoeuvring areas and yards should be
  adequately lit particularly
• Junctions
• Buildings
• Plant
• Pedestrian areas
• Places where there is regular movement of
  vehicles or mobile plant

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Road Signs

• Adequate signposts at relevant places
• Suitable warning signs may be necessary e.g.
  sharp bends, steep gradients etc.
• Similar signs may be necessary for pedestrians
• Where necessary, signs may need to be illuminated
  or reflectorised

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Vehicle Design

• Stability
• Safe access/egress
• Service parking brakes
• Windscreens wipers
• External mirrors to provide visibility CCTV may
  be necessary
• Horn
• Protection to prevent injury in event of
  overturn, and to protect driver from falling
  objects

• Lights, reflectors, reversing lights and possibly
  other warning devices
• Suitable paintings and markings
• Guards on dangerous parts
• Seats and seat belts
• Protection from adverse weather
• Protection from inhospitable environments e.g.
  dust, fumes, low temperature

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Maintenance

• Materials on road should be removed
• Roadways should be maintained
• Signs lighting cleaned and kept visible
• Road markings renewed when worn
• Pot holes not allowed to develop

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Vehicle Maintenance

• Provide drivers with list of daily checks
• Planned preventive maintenance
• Consider manufacturers recommendations
• Brakes applied wheels chocked
• Raised bodies suitably propped
• Trained and competent maintenance staff

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Vehicle Maintenance
Built-in prop for body of tipper lorry
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Driver Selection

• Over 17 years old normally
• HGV over 21 years old
• Mature reliable attitude
• Not under influence of drugs/alcohol
• Ensure visiting drivers are competent

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Driver Training

• RAs should determine level of training required
• Provide suitable training/certification as
  required
• Stress hazards, risks safe system
• Refresher training as necessary
• Keep training records

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Contractors Visiting Drivers

• Provide plan of workplace
• Regular meetings
• Check contractors safe systems and procedures

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Reversing Vehicles

• Remove need for reversing
• One way systems
• Identify mark reversing areas
• Exclude non-essential personnel from area
• Use banksmen and recognised signals
• Install stop blocks or buffers to prevent
  vehicles reversing onto holes
• Reversing alarms
• Sensors and trip devices
• CCTV
• Guidelines on floor may help driver

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Access on to Vehicles

• Restricted to authorised persons
• Edge protection
• Properly constructed ladders
• Non slip grating for walkways

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Loading or Unloading

• Carried out in areas away from traffic
• Not take place near to OH Lines
• Not carried out on steep gradients
• Safeguard against mechanical hazards from tail
  lifts
• Load/unload as evenly as possible
• Apply brakes
• Do not overload vehicles

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Tipping

• Keep non-essential personnel away
• Carry out at ground level
• Away from OH Lines
• Use wheel stops where necessary
• Jump clear if vehicle is made live

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Tipping
Stop block
Concrete block
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Sheeting Unsheeting

• Hazardous when done manually
• Use mechanical sheeting where possible
• Avoid people on top of load
• Carry out away from traffic and strong winds or
  bad weather

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Sheeting Unsheeting
Example of mechanically operated sheeting system