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The Workplace Traffic Management Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Tripping on unsecured equipment
- Exposure to moving vehicles
- 2. Design traffic plan
- Lack of visibility
- Incomplete hazard identification
- 3. Install signage and barriers
- Falling objects
- Struck by moving vehicle
- 4. Communicate traffic management plan
- Miscommunication leading to accidents
- Non-compliance with traffic plan
- 5. Implement traffic management plan
- Vehicle-pedestrian interaction
- Breakdown in communication
- 6. Monitor site conditions
- Changing weather
- Varying light levels causing visibility issues
- 7. Inspect traffic management facilities
- Missed inspections increasing risk
- Vehicle impact due to faulty facilities
- 8. Maintain traffic management facilities
- Injury from maintenance activities
- Increased traffic congestion due to maintenance work
- 9. Train staff
- Non-familiarity with traffic management system
- Not following safety procedures
- 10. Regularly revise and update traffic plan
- Inadequate updates leading to obsolete practices
- uninformed staff
- 11. Reporting and management of incidents/accidents
- Delayed reporting
- Misreporting
- 12. Removal of temporary traffic management arrangements
- Negligence leading to accident
- Unsafe handling of equipment
- 13. Site clean-up
- Risks of slips
- trips
- falls
- Hazardous waste left behind
- 14. Evaluate traffic management effectiveness
- Obstacles missed during evaluation
- Inadequate evaluation leading to unchanged practices
- 15. Periodic review of all traffic management systems
- Outdated systems continue being used
- Changes not communicated to staff
- 16. Drive vehicles on work site
- Unexpected obstacles
- Pedestrian interaction
- 17. Park vehicles on work site
- Incorrect parking causing obstruction
- Vehicles left unsecured
- 18. Use of pedestrian walkways and crossings
- Pedestrium-vehicle interaction
- poor visibility
- 19. Traffic violation enforcement
- Non-compliance with rules
- Lack of enforcement
- 20. Addressing emergency situations
- Poor evacuation plans
- Delays in addressing emergencies