Search results Client Mobile Plant and Site Transport Management The Client The CDM regulations impose duties on the client to ensure those they appoint are competent to manage construction risks including those related to construction vehicles. The client must also provide his appointed... D5-client Personnel Working On Mobile Plant and Site Transport Safe Workplaces Personnel working on vehicle routes If personnel have to work on site vehicle routes, they must be protected from the risk of being struck by construction vehicles. Suitable warnings should be displayed where drivers... D5-personnel-working-on Loading And Storage Areas Mobile Plant and Site Transport Safe Workplaces Loading and storage areas The planning and design of loading and storage areas requires careful assessment of material delivery programming, quantities, bulk and protection from the weather, both in the short term... D5-loading-and-storage-areas Competence Mobile Plant and Site Transport Safe Driving and Work Practices Competence Competence should be the main criteria when selecting a driver/operator or banksman. Competence should be monitored throughout that person's employment or throughout the project etc.... D5-competence Supervision Mobile Plant and Site Transport Safe Driving and Work Practices Supervision The selection of competent supervisors is also crucial to the safe management of construction vehicles. The supervisor must have relevant experience, the ability to direct the construction... D5-supervision Excavators Mobile Plant and Site Transport Specific vehicles 360° Excavators Generally there are two types of 360° hydraulic excavators, one being mounted on tracks, the other mounted on wheels. Rope operated excavators are generally mounted on tracks. Supervisors... D5-excavators Graders Mobile Plant and Site Transport Specific vehicles Graders The motor grader is a machine used principally for shaping and finishing, rather than digging or transporting. It can form shallow Vee ditches, batter shallow banks and camber earth road surfaces; its... D5-graders Loading Shovels Mobile Plant and Site Transport Specific vehicles Loading Shovels The loading shovel is a versatile machine, manufactured in an extremely wide range of types and sizes. The range of work it is capable of performing is equally wide and varied. The loading shovel... D5-loading-shovels Planers Mobile Plant and Site Transport Specific vehicles Planers The operation of planing is essentially the removal of old (worn) road surfaces, to a controlled depth, producing screedings in a granular form which can be recovered and removed from the working site. ... D5-planers Locomotives Mobile Plant and Site Transport Specific vehicles Locomotives Locomotives must be driven only be competent persons whose names are recorded as being authorised to do so by site management. When wagons are used to convey personnel they must be fitted with adequate... D5-locomotives 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53
