Construction Traffic Management Plan (CTMP)
Managing traffic at a construction workplace is an important part of ensuring the workplace is without risks to health and safety. Vehicles including powered mobile plant moving in and around a workplace, reversing, loading and unloading are often linked with death and injuries to workers and members of the public.
Traffic includes cars, trucks and powered mobile plant like forklifts, and pedestrians like workers and visitors.
BRP Consulting comprehensive Construction Traffic Management Plan (CTMP) reports, ensure the protection of pedestrians by eliminating traffic hazards.
This can be achieved by designing the layout of the workplace to eliminate interactions between pedestrians and vehicles. Examples include prohibiting vehicles from being used in pedestrian spaces or providing separate traffic routes so pedestrians cannot enter areas where vehicles are used.
Where this is not possible the risks must be minimised so far as is reasonably practicable. This can be done by careful planning and controlling vehicle operations and pedestrian movements at the workplace.
- Key issues to consider for managing traffic at construction workplaces include:
- Keeping pedestrians and vehicles apart including on site and when vehicles enter and exit the workplace;
- Minimising vehicle movements;
- Eliminating reversing vehicles or minimising the related risks ensuring vehicles and pedestrians are visible to each other;
- Using traffic signs; and
- Developing and implementing a Traffic Management Plan.
A person conducting a business or undertaking has a duty to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, workers and others are not exposed to health and safety risks arising from the business or undertaking. This duty includes implementing control measures to prevent people being injured by moving vehicles at the workplace.
A person conducting a business or undertaking involved in carrying out high risk construction work has extra duties. These include ensuring a Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) is prepared before work starts and preparing a Work Health and Safety (WHS) Management Plan for construction work costing $250,000 or more.
Contact us and we will provide you with a prompt & highly competitive no obligation quote. We generally confirm written quotes within 2-4 hours and can deliver most reports within 1 week. Please Note: CTMP Reports can require up to 2-4 weeks to complete, depending on the development.
