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T J O P E R A T I V E S T R A I N I N G M A N U A L V E R S I O N 5

Drivers/Operators are to observe the following top tips:

Before you travel or operate any plant:

• Prepare yourself

➢ Refresh your knowledge of the plant you are about to operate, including the Operators
Manual, Safe Systems of Work and Risk Assessments.

➢ If they need glasses (or contact lenses) to meet the Highway Code’s minimum
vision standards, they must wear them at all times while driving or operating
plant and equipment.

➢ Set your phone to voicemail and hand in at the office. No phones, MP3 players etc
are allowed on any of our transfer stations unless agreed by the site foreman or a
director.

➢ Check the blind spots around your vehicle and ask a colleague to help you identify
them.

• Check your vehicle (MIST)

Complete a walk-round check to ensure that:

✓ Mirrors are clean, correctly adjusted and set to minimise blind spots (check blind
spots 1m rule)

✓ Indicators are working, clean, and can be seen

✓ Signs and safety systems are working correctly

✓ Technology, including Fresnel lenses, side proximity sensors, blind spot cameras
and side guards, are fitted correctly, working and clean.

• While driving plant:

Keep checking for pedestrians who may walk around the site

Check their mirrors and over their shoulders for pedestrians before they vary their
speed or change direction

Keep scanning their mirrors whilst operating the machine to
ensure they are aware of their surroundings

Check and familiarise themselves with their blind spots for
forward and reverse operations

• Leave space

Give pedestrians plenty of space so that they can cross the yard safely and not feel
under pressure

Obey the directions given by the site reversing assistant.

Do not drive or park in pedestrian walkways marked by a solid or broken yellow line

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