Health Safety & Welfare
The Health Safety & Welfare group aim to be a voice of the industry to influence clients' Health, Safety and Welfare standards and policies. Their work focusses on developing, encouraging and promoting appropriate sharing of good Health, Safety and Welfare practice and innovation.Current projects address the issues around: temporary vehicle restraint systems, service avoidance, people-plant interface, working hours in traffice management, welfare on transient construction sites, emergency repairs and guidance on the changes to CDM regulations.
Past projects include: Smart Motorways Designed for Maintenance, Pedestrian Management, IPV and Traffic Management, Centre Line Working, Road Closures and Impact, Road Worker Abuse.
Plant Vehicle People Interface Management within a highways maintenance environment.
View a toolbox DVD here
and download the accompanying script suggestions.
Plant Vehicle People Interface Management script for DVD
Road Worker Abuse Project - Instructions
Road Worker Abuse definitions
Road Worker Abuse tool box talk
Road Worker Abuse Poster
TTM Vehicle Selection and Operation
This guidance provides information on Temporary Traffic Management Vehicle (TTMV) selection during works undertaken or controlled by Highways Term Maintenance Association Members on High Speed Dual Carriageways and Motorways.
Design for Maintenance
This guidance provides information on designing for maintenance in a high speed dual carriageway environment principally focussed on the Highways Agency (HA) Smart Motorway working environment, however, many of the principals are applicable to other motorway and local authority road networks.
Extended All Stop TTM
This guidance provides information on extended ‘all stop’ TTM selection during works undertaken or controlled by Highways Term Maintenance Association Members.
Works on or Near to the Centre of the Carriageway
The scope of the guidance sets out the responsibilities of the various duty holders and takes into account the design of the works as well as the nature of the works and the impact the works may have on the travelling public.
The types of roads where this guidance is applicable are:
1. Single lane carriageway
2. Dual carriageway
