Workplace transport safety An employers' guide - ARRI Lighting Rental

Health and Safety
Executive
Figure 29 Parking bays angled backwards to the flow of traffic, to encourage reverse parking
Figure 30 Pedestrians are segregated from vehicles on this slope
425 You may need a wheel-clamping scheme (where wheel clamping is legal) or
other measures to enforce parking restrictions on some sites. You should carry out
these measures if somebody parks where they are not supposed to, to make sure
the schemes are effective.
426 If parking is a significant problem, a full survey of parking demand and availability
might be appropriate. A survey of this kind could benefit from the support of
professional engineers.
427 You can find more advice about parking arrangements for cars in the
Department for Transport publication Residential Roads and Footpaths. 15 You
can find more advice about parking for larger vehicles in the Freight Transport
Association guide Designing for Deliveries. 8
Loading areas
428 As far as possible, loading and unloading areas should be in safe and suitable
places (for example, next to marshalling areas so that vehicles can be manoeuvred
easily, or near sheeting areas).
429 Wide loading areas will usually need at least two exit points, one at each end.
430 You might also consider a refuge or bolthole, to prevent people from being
struck by vehicles. This could take the place of an extra pedestrian exit in a larger
loading area.
Case study 7
A joiner suffered severe head injuries when he fell from the top of a stack
of timber on the back of a flatbed lorry.
The joiner was helping to unload the delivery when he climbed on top of
a timber stack. While edging along the stack, he lost his footing and fell.
An unloading bay with a concrete platform was available to provide safe
access for unloading vehicles, but was not used.
Workplace transport safety Page 57 of 144