Working over public highway

[arbutus]

The New YELLOW BOOK Chapter 8 is what you require....its new out and not cheap.!!!!

[Rupe]

The Police/Ambulance/Fire Service can do with hands and no boards. NFU told us Agricultural/Forestry workers can also when allowing vehicles driving out of difficult work sites on rural roads.

 

The public can in a vehicle smash to avoid more problems.

 

Does someone have a copy of the latest regulations please. Thanks.

 

Exactly. Plus when your passenger jumps out and stops traffic so you can reverse your chipper into a drive way, or builders trucks into tight sites, its called a banksman! Not illegal.

 

It would be illegal if you did it in such a way as to cause an accident, or if you didn't so it and there was an accident.

[janey]

This was a question I asked when I took my signing, lighting and guarding module of my NRASW ticket, as I had heard conflicting advice about whether traffic could be stopped by hand.

 

My instructor told me that the only legal way to halt traffic is with a stop / go board or traffic lights. Are there certain circumstances when that doesn't apply, then? I would look it up in my copy of "Safety at Streetworks", but I've, er, misplaced, just at the moment

[Rupe]

Of course the rules will be "use a stop go board" but we all know that folk stop traffic under the circumstances listed above and the police dont rock up and arrest everybody in sight!

 

Until the day that the police decide they need to improve on the number of arrests made for traffic stops by hand signals only, I think we will be ok.

 

For works in higher volume traffic areas I would always use stop go boards, bu that kind of planning ahead is called a risk assessment, and if the occasional stop of the odd car is needed here and there then I would deem stop go boards unecessary but that is down to my assessment of the situation, the job and the traffic flow. And since I have never had a near hit, I must be doing ok.

 

I have also stopped police cars and never been arrested.

 

 

Years ago we had a stop go board, and it said "stop" on one side and "carry on" on the other. Only those of a certain age will get that, lard!

[janey]

Until the day that the police decide they need to improve on the number of arrests made for traffic stops by hand signals only, I think we will be ok.

 

 

 

I would be very surprised indeed if there has ever been a single prosecution for illegal use of a hand while stopping traffic! LoL. And I doubt there ever will be.

 

But Chapter 8 is stututory, not just a guideline, so it's good to know what you should be doing.

[toprotter]

The only way you can stop traffic legally apart from stop /go

And lights is with a stop works Sign ( similar to lolly pop lady ).

You can stop by your hand but if this is ignored as motorist

tend to do and an accident happens ,well then the fun would

Begin.

[Heads up]

Nothing wrong with what their doing very comon practice. I've stopped police cars by hand before, also had one fly through with the sirens blazing and i had to try and stop it as it would have got mullered otherwise.

[scbk]

Bit more info on this page Safety at street works and road works

 

(and loads more pages on that site!)

[janey]

Bit more info on this page Safety at street works and road works

 

(and loads more pages on that site!)

 

That's a very good link, thank you. I'm amazed and a little embarrassed about how much of that I've forgotten since I done my ticket(s)

[arbutus]

At the end of the day regardless of "if you can legally or not" the NRASWA states that you can only stop and control traffic whilst working on the highway with Boards or Lights.... as the above thread states if you have an accident and you are hit or a car does not stop and they get hit or damage occurs that when the law will step in.... and you won't have a leg to stand on...as per say !!!!!!