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