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Vehicles on and around site are a high risk to the workforce and public. The Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) is an accreditation scheme that aims to drive best practice in terms of safety, efficiency and environmental protection. FORS provides a quality and performance benchmark for van, lorry, mini-bus, coach and bus operators. Accreditation of FORS can provide the tools…
Samsara is an artificial intelligence driven transport management initiative. This optimises field services with real-time vehicle locations, prevent breakdowns by monitoring engine diagnostics and fault codes, and cut costs by reducing idle time. This initiative also allows users to plan and analyse routes and stops and evaluate data on their performance to identify deviations and pinpoint trends to remedy with…
As a Principal Contractor CLOCS Champion, Galliford Try is committed to managing work-related road risk and promoting a positive road safety culture. We align with the CLOCS mission: to ensure the safest construction vehicle journey. At our Ashley Road East project in Tottenham Hale, our Galliford Try Construction – London & South East Commercial team devised a 12-page A5 booklet…
The system is a GPS-based electronic monitoring software which monitors through plug-in trackers issued to the driver upon arrival at the project. Issued with drivers’ rules, the monitor is plugged into the vehicle’s 12 volt socket outlet and instantly starts transmitting the position and speed of the vehicle. This means for all the time the vehicle is on the multi-plot…
Education of cyclists about their interaction with delivery lorries was taken to the next level at the cycle safety day which this site ran for the benefit of University students. Using the technology that Google use to capture information to create street view, a recording was made of a delivery vehicle’s journey from the M40 through Oxford city centre to…
In order to raise awareness of vulnerable road users and manage large-scale, just-in-time deliveries of larger steel frame elements and in-situ concrete deliveries to site in a safe manner, the site team have developed an innovative ‘crash map’. This map draws on information captured from Transport Scotland’s database, to alert and highlight the numerous major traffic accident black-spots leading into…
Wooldridge Demolition are continuously looking to develop new ways in which we can monitor and reduce our impact on the environment. Now run on every one of our sites, we initially introduced an emissions log and lanyard card to one of our sites in Farnham. Data is recorded and logged by Traffic Marshals when anyone arrives on site. This information…
Toureen Group are providing extensive and informative, site specific driver booklets during site driver inductions. Please see below lists of what this booklet provides to new drivers on all Toureen sites. Communicates the Toureen vulnerable road users’ and drivers policy to new drivers to site. Lists who are considered vulnerable users, so drivers know who to look out for whilst…
The Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy, published in 2018, sets out a vision for a healthier, greener and more prosperous city. The strategy makes clear that a new type of thinking is required to increase active, efficient and sustainable travel to help achieve this vision for London. The Mayor, through TfL, will work with the boroughs, businesses and the freight…
Vehicle movements are one of construction’s key contributions to environmental concerns like air pollution and CO2 emissions. Accurately managing and tracking vehicles in and out of site is good environmental practice. See the examples below for how one site went above and beyond to manage vehicle movements: The site developed bespoke signage which features a vehicle log sheet capturing fleet…