Road safety & traffic management
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Guidance for the Control and Management of Traffic at Road Works, second edition 2010
Design guidance for temporary traffic management at road works on single carriageway roads.
Explains the legal background and safety duties for work on roads, and how to plan and lay out temporary traffic management: signs, cones, speed limits, safety zones and tapers. Useful background for crews working at incidents on live roads.
Guidelines for Working on Roads
Health and Safety Authority guidance on the legal duties when working on or beside roads.
Explains Regulation 97 and Schedule 5 of the Construction Regulations 2013, what counts as a road, roadway, footway and cycle track, and what employers and workers must do to stay safe from traffic. First published in 2009 and updated in November 2014.
Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual: Updates
A presentation on temporary traffic management to the Local Authority Roads Conference, 2019.
Given by Jerry Crowley of Cork County Council at the 2019 conference in Kilkenny. It walks through the temporary traffic management documents, road level classifications, types of road works, design parameters, training and putting it into practice.
