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Vehicle movements: improvement
programme
Midland Quarry Products > Edwin Richards Quarry, West Midlands > 0121 561 4400
At Edwin Richards Quarry, a comprehensive
package of improvements has been made to
vehicle and pedestrian movements, including:
• introduction of a company safe working
transport guidance booklet for all hauliers,
including guidance for safe reversing
• enforcement of agreed traffic routes out of the
quarry and away from the majority of the local
residential areas
• introduction of a cab ‘seat belt worn’ light.
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Vehicle maintenance and traffic control
system
Bardon Aggregates > Warmwell Quarry, Dorset > 01929 522496
At Warmwell Quarry in Dorchester, a comprehensive programme of vehicle maintenance and traffic
management is in place, including:
• risk assessments – created using the computer system, ‘Envoy’. The records are accessible by all other
employees and a date for review is flagged up
• sheeting rack – avoids the need for hauliers to
enter the body of the trucks to skim the load or
to climb on the body to sheet
• traffic marking – at the start of the access road
to direct visitors to either the landfill, concrete
plant or the quarry.
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Traffic light controls to safeguard
pedestrians
Tarmac Northern > Cruicks Quarry, Fife > 01383 413241
The weighbridge at Cruicks Quarry in Inverkeithing can only be accessed by crossing the busy main road
coming into the quarry. A risk assessment highlighted the potential hazard and a pedestrian walkway with
traffic lights was installed.
This same system was installed in three further parts of the quarry, including an internal haul road, which
crosses the main incoming road. Although the latter generally has right of way, the mobile plant operators
can change the light from red to green using a hand-held remote control unit.