Workplace transport safety An employers' guide - ARRI Lighting Rental

Drivers and other people (continued)
Do managers and supervisors routinely challenge and investigate unsafe
behaviour?
Do managers and supervisors set a good example – for example, by
following instructions to separate vehicles and pedestrians, and by
wearing high-visibility clothing where needed?
Health and Safety
Executive
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
135-144
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
135-136
8 Check, in consultation with your employees, that your level of management control and supervision is suitable.
For example:
Are your supervisors, drivers and other employees (including contractors
and visiting drivers) aware of the site rules on using vehicles and traffic
movement? Are they aware of their responsibilities to maintain a safe
workplace and work safely?
Is everyone at the workplace supervised and held accountable for
their responsibilities, and is a clear system of penalties enforced when
employees, contractors etc fail to maintain standards?
Do you take adequate steps to assess the behaviour of pedestrians and
drivers of site and visiting vehicles, to investigate any underlying reasons
for unsafe behaviour, and to correct this?
Have you made certain people responsible for detecting, investigating and
correcting unsafe behaviour?
Vehicle activities
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
126-134, 170
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
135-144, 154-171
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
135-144, 621-665
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
132-136
9 Check that the need for reversing is kept to a minimum and, where reversing is necessary, that it is done
safely and in safe areas. For example:
Is there a one-way system on routes to reduce the need for reversing
manoeuvres?
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
250-252, 258, 292, 670
Are non-essential staff kept clear from areas where reversing is common? Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
258-263, 371-392, 674
Have you identified and marked ‘reversing areas’ to be clear to both
drivers and pedestrians?
Are you sure that, where there is an unavoidable need to use a banksman
(a signaller) to direct reversing vehicles, they are
adequately trained and visible, and otherwise able to work safely? Are
side-mounted and rear-view mirrors attached to the outside of the
vehicles to provide the best all-round visibility?
Have addiitional visibility aids, eg CCTV, been fitted to vehicles to
eliminate or reduce blind spots during reversing?
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraph 673
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
683-697
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
550-557
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
558-564
Do vehicles have reversing alarms? Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
565-570
10 Check that drivers take care when parking their vehicles, including their own private cars, and that they park
in safe places. For example:
Do your drivers use the parking areas? Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
135-139, 413-416
Do your drivers always put the brakes on for their vehicles and trailers and
secure them before leaving them parked?
11 Check that loading and unloading is carried out safely. For example:
Is loading and unloading carried out in an area away from passing
traffic, pedestrians and others not involved in the work? Are you sure
that people are not needlessly ‘steadying’ the load?
Is there enough co-operation between the site occupier and duty
holders who deliver or pick up goods? For example, are all the loads, the
delivery vehicles, the vehicles that handle materials and the equipment
compatible?
Is loading and unloading carried out using safe systems of work on
ground that is flat, firm and free from potholes?
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
584-591, 709-712,
719-720
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
185-187, 748-751, 799
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraphs
182-227, 794-796
Yes/No If ‘No’, see paragraph 748
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