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transport – site design
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Design features for managing traffic
Tarmac Northern > Douglasmuir Quarry, Glasgow > 0141 953 4217
Working a quartz conglomerate deposit, Douglasmuir Quarry is close to Milngavie, on the northern
approaches to Glasgow. Here, as elsewhere, Tarmac Northern has employed the following design features
into its revised traffic management system:
• ‘No Entry’ signs to keep traffic away from unauthorised areas
• one way system; ‘give way’ signs
• goal posts
• small vehicles bay (segregated load area, away from HGVs)
• site/route maps for new drivers (plus safety notes)
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• extra site lighting.
Safety lines at road work sites
Foster Yeoman Contracting > Northfleet, Kent > 01474 333186
To reduce the number of injuries resulting from incorrect deployment of safety lines at road work sites,
Foster Yeoman has developed a new policy for their use.
In the absence of a national standard on the use of safety lines, the company sourced a 25mm wide
highly visible nylon tape, which is wound round the top of the cone and then back wound from the other
direction to lock off the tape. This prevents the entire length of tape unravelling should it become broken.
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Vehicle segregation automated
Bardon Concrete > Preston Plant, Preston
> 01524 736933
An innovative barrier system has been developed
at Bardon Concrete’s plant in Grimsargh to keep
pedestrians safe around the loading shovel. The
production team came up with the idea of a
barrier remotely operated by a transmitted signal
from the loading shovel ignition system. When
the loading shovel ignition is switched on, the
barrier automatically goes down, and when it
on
is switched off, the barrier raises.
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Mobile rail buffer
Brett Aggregates > Brett House, Kent > 01795 594027
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video
Brett Aggregates has devised a new way of stopping slow moving wagons – without using a
large concrete block put in place with the loading shovel prior to shunting.
The solution was to construct a steel frame that sits on the track, anchors to the sleepers, and has end
stops of the same diameter as the wagon wheels.