Traffic management | Traffic, Journey Management

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TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, JOURNEY MANAGEMENT, JOURNEY PLANNING, AND VEHICLE SIGNS, MARKS

Traffic management

Traffic management system

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND JOURNEY MANAGEMENT

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, JOURNEY MANAGEMENT, JOURNEY PLANNING, AND VEHICLE SIGNS, MARKS

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

Traffic management is an integral part of site organization or company to ensure that vehicles and pedestrians may move around safely on site. The routes designated for vehicles and pedestrians shall be suitable for them in size, number, and positioning. The key elements of a Traffic Management program include the following:

ELIMINATE/REDUCE:

SEPARATE:

·       Design the work site to keep people away from the path of vehicles. Establish and delineate separate areas for large and small vehicles route.

·       Provide dedicated paths for pedestrians of peoples or procedures to separate pedestrians from the path of vehicles route.

·       Arranged fixed hard barriers when possible to separate people from vehicles, and visual barriers to distinguish pedestrian areas from vehicle areas.

·       Establish one-way traffic patterns when possible as per company standards

·       Arranged or developed assertive, effective, dedicated traffic control personnel.

ESTABLISH PROCEDURES:

·       Ensure to eliminate or reduce pedestrian and vehicle interfaces by implementing effective procedures.

·       Develop or create action plans and checklists to identify hazards and steps to mitigate risks to the pedestrian.

·       Develop or establish exclusion zones around construction equipment such as cranes to eliminate traffic in blind spots or road closure.

·       Ensure roles and responsibilities are understood and followed by everyone.

·       Perform vehicle safety inspections as per manufacturer recommendations checklists.

·       Maintain and implement traffic plans to eliminate or minimize interaction between pedestrians, vehicles, and heavy equipment.

·       Review or reassess traffic plans when conditions change e.g. weather, site expansion, etc.

·       Establish clear marked crosswalks, efficient intersections, and segregated parking areas to minimize interaction between pedestrians and vehicles.

·       Implement effective procedures to address unique risks associated with limited visibility in night work sites.

·       Install ample signage for the right of way, speed limits, and pedestrian and access control.

EFFECTIVENESS CONTROL MEASURE:

·       Periodically or regularly evaluate compliance with traffic management rules to ensure culture is sustained and implemented.

·       Establish and implement an audit process to routinely verify compliance with traffic management rules and procedures.

·       Weekly or monthly conduct management walkthroughs and safety team observations focused on the Traffic management system.

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT:

It should be tracked and reported to the workforce routinely via supervisor-led toolbox talks meetings to reinforce company expectations and commitment.

Traffic management must be conducted at all new and existing company work sites. The company's responsibility shall be on-site management. Any existing facility shall review the traffic management when there is a layout change or incident related to vehicles.

JOURNEY MANAGEMENT & ROUTE PLANNING

JOURNEY MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES

To ensure road transportation safety risks are as low as reasonably practicable, the road transport safety management process shall include the use of an appropriate journey management system.

Journey management objectives shall include:

1.       Ensure the assuring the safety of all travelers and reduce the time of exposure.

2.       Challenging the need for unnecessary journeys and undertaking the minimum number of journeys.

3.       To maximize the efficiency of each journey

4.       To avoid preferably or minimize the effect of all identified hazards likely to be encountered.

5.       To be able to recover promptly from any incident or accident.

6.       To monitor journey performance regularly.

7.       Ensure that drivers are fully aware of journey plans and any hazards during the journey.

8.       Ensure that the journey planner does not violate the maximum driving hour’s duty.

9.       Ensure that the journey planner does not result in unauthorized nighttime driving.

JOURNEY PLANNING:

When a need for a journey has been established, then aspects of journey management shall be introduced which will assist in reducing the risk of incidents or accidents. Each organization or company involved in road operations shall develop and implement a system for journey management taking into consideration the following elements of journey management:

1.       By selecting appropriate vehicles for the task can the payload be maximized to reduce the number of journeys management?

2.       Establishing and controlling maximum speeds of vehicles.

3.       Controlling duty hours and rest periods of drivers.

4.       Establishing standard journey times to plan.

5.       Maintain and implement optimum time for travel concerning traffic and drivers' shift patterns.

6.       The route identification and selection to avoid high-risk areas e.g. poor road surface, and urban congestion. Companies or organizations shall review regularly the status of roads to identify existing and new hazards to be considered in the Journey Management Plan.

7.       Setting designated routes of the journey for certain categories of vehicles e.g. high, wide or long vehicles, vehicles carrying hazardous material.

8.       Provision of auxiliary equipment e.g. drinking water, spare tire, extra fuel, tow chains, shovels, extra wheels, radios, emergency flares, emergency locator beacons, and vehicle parts such as lamps or lights,  fuses, filters, fan belts, etc.

9.       Checking of a survival kit as per journey contents in case of emergency.

10.   Checking that sufficient fuel is provided for the journey allowing for detours or long stretches at slow speed and that fuel is available on the journey route.

11.   Checking that the correct maps are carried, together with a compass or Global Satellite, google maps online.

12.   Positioning Equipment if required e.g. Jack etc.

13.   The proper communications systems in the vehicle such as mobile phone calls, SMS, and radio communication.

14.   Establishing agreed stop-over point’s route and reporting status back to base or control room regularly.

15.   Authorizing and recording deviations from the planned journey route.

16.   Designating contact points for advising base or control room, both route and at the end of the journey.

17.   Recording the journey details, times, dates, locations to be visited, and the number of people traveling or journey.

18.   The driver to maintain a log sheet of the journey details.

19.   Emergency response and proper resources for search and rescue with the rescue team.

20.   Recording of travelers with special skills such as first aid kit, fire extinguishers, survival training, and vehicle recovery training experience.

21.   Avoiding road works during the journey.

22.   Ensure checking weather conditions and determining the risk of hazardous weather conditions and, where relevant, implementing changes due to predicted weather conditions.

VEHICLE SIGNS, MARKS, AND PLACARDS:

·       Vehicles shall display all signs necessary for safe operations and facilitate incident response and recovery e.g. use of seat belt, no smoking, etc.

·       Any specific requirement from Federal and Local Traffic Regulations

·       Load limitations

·       Speed limit

·       Maximum number of passengers as stipulated on the registration document

·       Vehicle identification number

·       Battery isolation location

·       Company name

·       Information shall be given in the local language and English.