TRAFFIC SAFETY MANAGEMENT PLAN - Queensland Police Service

QUEENSLAND POLICE SERVICE
1. Introduction
TRAFFIC SAFETY MANAGEMENT PLAN
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Please enter the required information under the blue headings.
a) Summarise the details of the project, what is being transported, from where to where.
b) Summarise the size and weight of the load(s) and the total combination(s).
c) Identify the choke or activity points (e.g. stopping/passing points, bridges, town sites, intersections, overhead impediments etc).
d) State who is involved in piloting and escorting the load (police, pilots etc).
e) Summarise any other relevant information.
2. Traffic Management Personnel
a) List personnel involved in the movement, their responsibilities and contact details. In some cases, specific
individuals will not be known, so that it may only be possible to include a generic contact.
(e.g. Qld Police, ABC Escort Company, for example).
3. Communication
a) What communication is used between pilots, escorts, police and truck drivers?
b) Who else need be communicated with (e.g. those doing work on the road or overhead wires to allow the move)?
c) Who is the contact in case of emergency?
d) What communication equipment is used (CB, other radio, mobile phone, satellite phone, etc.)?.
4. Community Awareness
a) This may include methods used to inform other road users of the movement of the load, its effect on traffic,
location of the load at any time and possible detours that can be used.
b) For small loads—the only method used is either a sign on the front of the truck or the leading escort/pilot vehicle.
c) For large loads—it may be appropriate to provide news releases to radio stations along the route.
5. Procedures at Constriction or Activity Points.
Procedures to facilitate the safe and effective movement which may include:
a) Parking bays and traffic control points where the load is either:
i. stopped overnight; or
ii. where other road users are cleared past the load.
b) Bridges, including details of temporary supports, vehicle positioning as it crosses the bridge, speed limits etc.
c) Town sites and intersections, including procedure for installing, controlling and removing temporary road
blocks and diversions. It may also include details of where contra-flow movements at intersections are
required.
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d) Overhead impediments, including powerlines over the route and how these are to be treated
(e.g. lifted or removed/replaced and by whom)
e) Other relevant situations.
6. The Route
a) Identify the route and actions that may be needed at the different parts of it
(e.g. location of traffic control points, town sites, intersections, overhead impediments, bridges and other problem points).
b) Identify the type of traffic control needed, (e.g. where oncoming traffic must be stopped to allow the load past, where the route is
wide enough for oncoming traffic to be allowed to pass).
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