Contact Us
search engine by freefind
HIGHWAYS SAFETY HUB
  • Home
  • About
  • Initiatives
    • COVID 19 GOOD PRACTICE
    • Campaigns >
      • WINTER 2022
      • Overhead Hazards >
        • Overhead Hazards 2018
        • Overhead Hazards 2015
      • Road User Interface >
        • ROADWORKS VEHICLE INCURSIONS 2018
        • Road Vehicle Person Interface 2015
      • Health & Wellbeing >
        • Health & Wellbeing 2017
        • Occupational Health & Wellbeing 2015
      • Services >
        • Buried Services 2017
        • Buried Services 2015
      • Plant >
        • Falls From Vehicles 2016
        • Plant Person Segregation 2017
        • Plant Person Interface 2015
    • Raising The Bar Guidance
    • Highways Passport >
      • Passport Documents
    • Traffic Management Incursions
    • Principal Designers Working Group >
      • Action Log / Agenda / Minutes
      • Group Presentations / Outputs
      • Whole Life Safety
      • Learning From Incidents
      • Lessons Learned Design >
        • General H, S & Wellbeing
        • Highways / Barriers / TTM Temp/Perm
        • Earthworks Temp/Perm
        • Drainage Temp/Perm
        • Structures Temp/Perm
        • Technology Temp/Perm
        • Environment Temp/Perm
        • Utilities Temp/Perm
      • DMRB, GG104 & Standards
      • Home Safe & Well PDWG
      • Safe By Design
      • Health By Design
      • Lean
      • Temporary Works
      • Guidance / RTB
      • CDM
      • Eliminating Risk From The Outset
      • Stats Management
    • SLIPS TRIPS & FALLS
  • SCSLG
    • Supply Chain Safety Leadership Group About >
      • SCSLG Monthly Bulletins
      • Mental Health
      • Utility Strike Avoidance Group
      • IPV & Incursions Working Group
      • Lost Loads
      • Safe Working With Plant
      • Roadworks
      • Supervision
      • Ground Investigation
      • Vehicle Roadworthiness
      • Archaeology
      • Suicide Prevention
      • Live Lane Working / Crossing
  • Home Safe & Well
    • Home Safe & Well
  • Alerts
    • Alerts - National Highways
    • All Alerts Database
  • Toolkit
  • REPORTS
    • Performance Reports
    • Hub H&S Briefings
  • HART
  • Links
Picture
Working With Plant and Road Vehicles

This campaign is the next in the series looking at our top fatal risks. It will run from November to January inclusive with the first month focussing on working with plant.
Picture
​
Month Three – Vulnerable Road Users

 
The current series of campaigns is focussing on Plant and Road vehicle interface. The third month (January) is specifically focussing on vulnerable road users.
In 2014 21,287 cyclists were injured in reported road accidents, including 3,514 who were killed or seriously injured. 92% of these incidents involved another vehicle. Despite action taken to reduce these figures, the number of cyclists reported to have been killed or seriously injured has actually increased slightly in recent years.
Similarly the risk to pedestrians is also great. In 2014, 24,748 pedestrians were injured in reported road accidents including 5509 who were killed or seriously injured. The number of fatalities in the year (446) is actually a 12% increase from the previous year.
Many national campaigns have been produced which have focussed on vulnerable road users, particularly cyclists. This campaign will aim to raise awareness of some of the work already done, and promote initiatives and innovations that have been developed to reduce the risk.
 
Raising the bar guidance defines minimum requirements for managing the risk site transport impacts on vulnerable road users;
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-safety-for-major-road-schemes-transport-and-logistics-management

Highways England Cycling Strategy launched January 2016;
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cycling-strategy 

The Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) has produced a comprehensive Cycle Safety Toolkit which is designed to help minimise the risk of collisions between vehicles and vulnerable road users:
FORS Cycle Safety Toolkit

Different organisations have undertaken a variety of initiatives in this area including:
Side proximity sensor technology
Blindspot Cameras
Cycle Safety
​

FORS also offer an accreditation system. The full standard which defines the basic requirements that must be met to become accredited is available here:
FORS Standard
 
The Highways Term Maintenance Association (HTMA) have recently developed the following presentation titled ‘Traffic and Pedestrian Management visual standards guidance’:

pedestrian_management_ppt.ppt
File Size: 9746 kb
File Type: ppt
Download File

Month Two - December Road User Interface Campaign

The current series of campaigns is focussing on Plant and Road vehicle interface. The second month (December) is specifically focussing on road user interface. This campaign has been developed by our delivery partners in support of our ‘raising the bar’ guidance and also includes videos and examples of industry training and good practice which can be used to highlight the significance of this issue as well as suggesting potential ways to reduce the risk to road workers. All resources will be made available to access from this page.
 
Working on or near live carriageways is the most hazardous environment for our workforce. Between 2008 and 2012, nine road workers were killed and 122 seriously injured on major roads in England. The HSE report that the average fatality rate for road workers is one of the highest amongst employment sectors.

The following incidents serve to demonstrate this risk:

Traffic Officer Fatality:

http://press.hse.gov.uk/2015/crown-censure-for-highways-agency-following-traffic-officers-death/
​
Road Worker Fatality:
road_worker_fatality.docx
File Size: 11 kb
File Type: docx
Download File

M1 RTC
m1_rtc.pdf
File Size: 179 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

The risks associated with errant drivers are well known. There are hundreds of reports each month of vehicles driven by members of the public entering worksites or striking traffic management with each incident potentially putting the lives of road workers in danger.
Sometimes a simple error by one driver can influence the behaviour of many others:

Video - M60 Idiot Drivers
m60---idiot-uk-drivers-exposed-fbdown.net.mp4
File Size: 3451 kb
File Type: mp4
Download File



There have been a number of recent initiatives to promote this issue amongst road users:

Managed Motorways:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120810121037/http://www.highways.gov.uk/news/25754.aspx

Hard shoulder Abuse:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/363992/Hard_Shoulder_Abuse_-_A5_leaflet.pdf
 
Raising the Bar Guidance document has been produced:
​

Raising the Bar 11 – Influencing driver behaviour at road works

Raising The Bar 27 - Managing TM Incursions

The HTMA has produced an excellent video that can be used in toolbox talks to highlight the dangers.

HTMA Plant Person Interface Video;

http://www.htma.info/how-we-work/resource-library/video_detail.plant-vehicle-people-interface-management.html 

Although further work will be done to influence public behaviour, this campaign will aim to promote innovations and initiatives that can help organisations within the highways community reduce the risks associated with working in close proximity to road users.

To support ‘Raising the Bar 27 - Managing TM Incursions’, the following documents have been developed:
raising_the_bar_27_managing_tm_incursions_audit_checklist.docx
File Size: 21 kb
File Type: docx
Download File

raising_the_bar_27_managing_tm_incursions_tool_box_talk.pptx
File Size: 248 kb
File Type: pptx
Download File

​There are various initiatives and innovations underway across the industry. The following are just a few examples of work undertaken to reduce the likelihood and risk of unauthorised and uncontrolled vehicle access into work sites:

Readi-Guard System:
http://www.transport-network.co.uk/New-remote-access-gate-developed-to-protect-highways-workers/12100
 
Delivery Driver Hold Points:
delivery_driver_hold_points_examples.docx
File Size: 7792 kb
File Type: docx
Download File

Some innovations from Colas;
colas_innovations.pdf
File Size: 3184 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Hard Shoulder Near Miss
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JiOETTsHWI&feature=youtu.be
NEW CCTV footage showing incursion on closed slipway M25 junction 30.
cameras-cam29_a184_9_____2016-12-08_23-51-29_to_2016-12-08_near_miss__.mp4
File Size: 23308 kb
File Type: mp4
Download File

NEW CCTV shows driver risking lives of road workers while ploughing through closed off motorway stretch
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/cctv-shows-driver-risk-lives-12289315#ICID=nsm
Video - Artic Tractor Unit Parking Brake Failsafe Device
20150812_135146_817785252305.mp4
File Size: 7180 kb
File Type: mp4
Download File

Case Study - Use of rubber pads with TVRS
a1d2l_technical_note_tvrs_pads.pdf
File Size: 66 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • About
  • Initiatives
    • COVID 19 GOOD PRACTICE
    • Campaigns >
      • WINTER 2022
      • Overhead Hazards >
        • Overhead Hazards 2018
        • Overhead Hazards 2015
      • Road User Interface >
        • ROADWORKS VEHICLE INCURSIONS 2018
        • Road Vehicle Person Interface 2015
      • Health & Wellbeing >
        • Health & Wellbeing 2017
        • Occupational Health & Wellbeing 2015
      • Services >
        • Buried Services 2017
        • Buried Services 2015
      • Plant >
        • Falls From Vehicles 2016
        • Plant Person Segregation 2017
        • Plant Person Interface 2015
    • Raising The Bar Guidance
    • Highways Passport >
      • Passport Documents
    • Traffic Management Incursions
    • Principal Designers Working Group >
      • Action Log / Agenda / Minutes
      • Group Presentations / Outputs
      • Whole Life Safety
      • Learning From Incidents
      • Lessons Learned Design >
        • General H, S & Wellbeing
        • Highways / Barriers / TTM Temp/Perm
        • Earthworks Temp/Perm
        • Drainage Temp/Perm
        • Structures Temp/Perm
        • Technology Temp/Perm
        • Environment Temp/Perm
        • Utilities Temp/Perm
      • DMRB, GG104 & Standards
      • Home Safe & Well PDWG
      • Safe By Design
      • Health By Design
      • Lean
      • Temporary Works
      • Guidance / RTB
      • CDM
      • Eliminating Risk From The Outset
      • Stats Management
    • SLIPS TRIPS & FALLS
  • SCSLG
    • Supply Chain Safety Leadership Group About >
      • SCSLG Monthly Bulletins
      • Mental Health
      • Utility Strike Avoidance Group
      • IPV & Incursions Working Group
      • Lost Loads
      • Safe Working With Plant
      • Roadworks
      • Supervision
      • Ground Investigation
      • Vehicle Roadworthiness
      • Archaeology
      • Suicide Prevention
      • Live Lane Working / Crossing
  • Home Safe & Well
    • Home Safe & Well
  • Alerts
    • Alerts - National Highways
    • All Alerts Database
  • Toolkit
  • REPORTS
    • Performance Reports
    • Hub H&S Briefings
  • HART
  • Links