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Automotive Industry Action Group-Excerpts OHS-2

AIAG - Pedestrian and Vehicle Safety Guideline

Facility Assessments
In general, powered industrial trucks, other in-plant powered vehicles, and pedestrian traffic should be
separated wherever possible. In areas where this is not possible, added safety controls (physical and
visual) should be required to reduce pedestrian risks. It is important to realize that on-site facility
assessments are necessary in order to identify those areas requiring pedestrian/vehicular safety
controls and to ensure that the process is consistently implemented.

A detailed facility assessment should focus on:
1) High pedestrian traffic areas (e.g., adjacent to offices, cafeterias, locker rooms, employee
entrances, etc.)

2) High powered industrial-truck and/or finished- product traffic areas (e.g., receiving/shipping
docks, warehouses, and marketplaces (stock storage), pre-delivery areas, etc.).

The following elements from this Guideline are addressed in more detail:

• Facilities - On-site facilities assessments are necessary to identify areas requiring
pedestrian/vehicular safety controls. Consistency in marking and separating these areas is a key
to improved awareness of and conformance to the guidelines.
• Equipment - Equipment specifications have an impact on how readily a vehicle is observed by
pedestrians. For example, recent studies have shown that certain paint colors can make a vehicle
up to four times more visible to the human eye.

Facility Design

• Aisle widths and color-coded demarcation lines

• Personnel access doorway locations
• Service doorway locations

• Material storage locations (e.g., marketplaces, material warehouse, line side storage, etc.)

• Plant floor office locations including personnel access doorways
• Individual departmental locations including supervisory locations

• Employee service locations (e.g., shop floor entrances, break rooms, cafeterias, canteens,
locker rooms, main entrances for employees and non-employees, medical, parking lot
entrances, restrooms, secured accesses for employees and non-employees)

• Powered industrial-truck repair staging
• Shipping dock locations (e.g., loading bays, personnel access doorways, shipping offices, etc.)

• Receiving dock locations (e.g., unloading bays, personnel access doorways, shipping offices,
etc.)
• Stairwell locations

• Permanent ladder locations
• Drinking fountain locations
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