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20.9 Control of Vehicles Entering Premises and Work Areas
Control of vehicular traffic within the work area is achieved by the adoption of standards required
under the Road Traffic Acts, but the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the "Management of Health
and Safety at Work" Regulations 1999 and the Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations
1992, also apply.

Entry of vehicles into buildings and work areas requires special attention to avoid hazards being
created to personnel and plant. All workplaces are to be organised in such a way that safe circulation
and movement of persons and vehicles is possible.

Managers, Engineers or Foreman are to ensure that the risks to health and safety are assessed,
and that instructions are produced and included in the site instructions, detailing the control
arrangements in their areas, including:

• Appointing a Responsible Person(s) (RP) tasked with liaising with vehicle drivers to establish
safe arrangements for the delivery or collection of materials etc. Notices giving the location
of the RP may be necessary. Consideration must be given to the display of warning notices,
establishing where possible, one-way traffic flow for delivery/collection vehicles and suitable
access routes for pedestrians. This may not always be possible, but control of large vehicles
is particularly necessary.
• The Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 require that every workplace
shall be organised in such a manner that pedestrians and vehicles can circulate in a safe
manner. This applies to all areas of the work site and it is for site supervisor to ensure that
suitable and sufficient arrangements are in place on their site.
• The vehicle driver retains the final responsibility for the control of his vehicle, however, when
it is clearly foreseeable that the driver will require assistance to man oeuvre his vehicle, the
Responsible Person (RP) must establish with the driver, agreed stop/go commands. The RP
must not place himself where he is at risk of being struck by the vehicle. Extreme caution
must be exercised especially in darkness, bad weather or reversing vehicles. The RP should
wear suitable high visibility clothing (e.g. tabard, gloves) whenever necessary.

Risk assessment and application of a safe system of work can reduce the hazards of reversing
vehicles.

Assessment should include consideration of:

✓ What vehicle movements will be necessary?
✓ Can the need to reverse be eliminated and if reversing is essential is there enough room and
should people be removed from the area?
✓ Do vehicles use the most suitable route when reversing?
✓ Instruction, training and supervision requirements.
✓ Provision of warning signs, audible alarms on vehicles and suitable high visibility clothing for
persons acting as guides for reversing vehicles.

HSE Guidance Note GS9 "Road Transport in Factories", available from HMSO, and advice may be
obtained from the health and safety consultant.

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