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Safety at street works and road works

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Table of contents

  • Foreword
  • Application
  • Key Question
  • Safe works - basic principles
  • What you will need
  • High visibility clothing
  • Advance signs
  • Setting out signs
  • Sequence for setting out signs
  • Works on footways - look after pedestrians
  • Footway ramps, footway boards and road plates
  • Works on two-lane single carriageway roads
  • Works vehicle
  • Works on dual carriageway roads without hard shoulders
  • Signing requirements
  • Setting out
  • Sequence of signing for 50mph or above
  • Works at pedestrian and cycle crossings
  • Works at road junctions
  • Works at road junctions controlled by permanent traffic signals
  • Works at roundabouts
  • Cycle lanes and cycle tracks
  • Traffic control
  • Speed control
  • Mobile works and minor works carried out from a vehicle
  • Work near tramways
  • Works at or near railway level crossings
  • Size and siting distance: details of signs and cones and safety zone dimensions
  • Reminder
  • Before you start - General
  • Before you start - Pedestrians
  • Before you start - Traffic
  • When work is in progress
  • When work is suspended
  • When work is finished ?
  • Next

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