Workplace Transport and Driving
Designing, planning and managing safe transport on site

Every site is different and whether the site be a permanent BBC site, an Outside Broadcast compound or production site the principles are exactly the same. It is a requirement that your risk assessment considers significant foreseeable risks on your site, remember that drivers, vehicles and pedestrians rarely behave perfectly, so allow adequate safety margins wherever possible.

 

A well-designed and maintained workplace will make transport accidents less likely. Often, small, cheap things can make a difference, such as making sure visibility is good, lights are adequate and working, potholes are filled, markings and signs are clear, or spills are cleaned up quickly.

 

Keep vehicles and pedestrians separate whenever possible. Think about what kind of vehicles move around your site, including less-common vehicles (such as emergency services) and how much room they need to move safely. Then do what is practicable to keep vehicles in their areas, and pedestrians clear of them. Complete segregation is the ideal, although often not practicable, but the further apart you can keep vehicles and pedestrians the better.

 

Reversing vehicles are a major source of accidents. The best way of preventing reversing accidents is to make reversing unnecessary. A one-way system with drive-through loading/unloading areas can do this. If the site layout makes this impossible, you will need to take other measures to make reversing safe.