using cones and tree cutting sign.

[Bolt]

try this web address...

 

TSO Online Bookshop - Safety at Street Works and Road Works: A Code of Practice

 

... should work (but no guarentee as i'm no computer wizz kid)

[455]

would have liked to cordon off an emergency drop/risk zone

 

Just wondering.........if that is what you would have liked to do then why didn't you do it? HAd you seen the job previously or just been sent to do it?

 

didn't do it because i didn't have the sign, tapes and cones,

i was the groundie, and took charge from pavement, and yes the job was just an extra "little" one after working in the back garden.

[Mesterh]

 

No, best thing to do is prevent it in the first place, and a groundie is the best method. He can make you stop work while you let people through.

 

IME that is about the only way to really prevent a member of the public from being injured.

 

Cones,signs, barriers and tape CAN ONLY BE SEEN BY PEOPLE WITH A BIT OF COMMON SENSE they are completely invisible to the vast majority of people walking the streets.

[455]

well,

i'll be, i must of got it right then.

[Rupe]

I thought we are talkign about a public footpath.

 

Pavements are covered by the street works act. so you should comply with that really, but as long as you are there taking charge I wouldn't worry too much. Is it your jobs you are doing or are you employed by someone else or a company?

[Rupe]

IME that is about the only way to really prevent a member of the public from being injured.

 

Cones,signs, barriers and tape CAN ONLY BE SEEN BY PEOPLE WITH A BIT OF COMMON SENSE they are completely invisible to the vast majority of people walking the streets.

 

 

Yep. Cones barriers etc are there to keep the HSE man happy, a good groundie is what actually prevents accidents.

[Rupe]

I've spent years doing street works and most trees overhang any safe working area that you could possibly set out with barriers etc. We just let people through whne its safe and make them wait when its not. Keepign the chipper turned off is quite important.

[455]

no it was my job,

first time i'd infringed on a public area,

hence my concern, and need of guidance.

[ben lightfoot]

We were once working in portsmouth high street and had to do it after 6pm when all the shops had shut, coned signed and taped area off next thing someone on a disability scooter swerved through the tape missed the ladder and chipper and back out the other side with tape wrapped round him. Turned out he was drunk as a friend of his came up on his scooter and apologised, gladly don't see it happen too often

[Rupe]

Ok, so it is your responsibilty then. Tree cuttign signs are a good start, even in customers driveways they can help stop people entering work space. (except postmen)

 

One thing I will say though is that if someone decides to walk round you into the road and gets hit by a car you could be liable! And poeple are stupid enough to do this.

 

I've had so many people see us working ahead and even though we would let them through safely they take it upon themselves to walk in the road instead, even with pushchairs!!

 

If they crossed the road thats fine, but walking in the road is pretty stupid, but you would be in trouble if they got hit.