1. SAFETY TALK (WEEK 11)
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
Most workplace incidents happen when pedestrians (employees and visitors) move about the
workplace, when vehicles are reversing and during loading & unloading activities. People who work
with or near vehicles—like cars, vans, trucks, trailers, tractors, forklifts and earthmoving equipment—
are most at risk. Customers and visitors to a workplace can also be at risk.
Good traffic management can help keep a workplace safe by ensuring traffic moves safely and
efficiently within, through and around the workplace.
Traffic at a workplace can include:
• Vehicles like cars, trucks, vans, buses and powered mobile plant like forklifts
• Cyclists
• Pedestrians including workers, visitors to the workplace and members of the public.
MAJOR INCIDENTS COMMON TO TRAFFIC ON SITE
 COLLISION WITH STATIONARY OBJECT
 COLLISION WITH MOVING OBJECT
 COLLISON WITH PEDESTRIANS
 FALL FROM HEIGHT/ FALL INTO DITCHES/DRAINAGE etc
WHY DO WE HAVE A TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM?
 It’s a legal requirement. [A person conducting a business or undertaking has the
primary duty under the WHS “ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that
workers and other persons at the workplace are not exposed to health and safety risks
arising from the business or undertaking. This duty includes implementing measures
to control the risks of persons being injured due to the movement of vehicles or plant
at the workplace” (section 247, WHS)]
 It brings about orderliness
COMPONENTS OF A TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
 Road markings
 Pedestrian walkway
 Signage
 Convex mirrors
 Road maps
The purpose of any traffic management system is to prevent incidents that
can result into injury, property damage, fatalities and they are meant to be
followed etc.