Safety for Transport Activities

& Gas Cylinder Safety

 Workplace Transport Hazards
Workplace transport?
• Workplace transport is any activity involving vehicles used in a workplace.
Vehicles driven on public roads are excluded, except where the vehicle is
being loaded or unloaded on a public road adjacent to a workplace.

Workplace transport hazards?

• People struck, run over or crushed by vehicles

• Vehicles colliding with each other or plant/equipment
• People falling from vehicles
• Items falling from vehicles
Control Measures
 Control Measures
Design & Layout of Road Systems
• Wide enough for largest vehicle permitted
• One way systems where necessary
• Avoid routes close to vulnerable plant
• Avoid sharp and blind bends
• Use mirrors to improve vision
• Make entrances/gateways wide enough
 Control Measures

Design & Layout of Road Systems

• Sensible speed limits & signpost
• Use speed humps
• Display prominent signs where necessary
• Provide screens for protection from exhaust fumes
 Pedestrians
• Provide separate routes for pedestrians
• Provide barriers or rails at entrances/exits
• Fork lift routes should be indicated by
floor lines
• Where pedestrian & vehicle routes cross,
crossings should be provided
• Provide subways if necessary
 Pedestrians
• Separate vehicle and pedestrian doors should be provided,
with vision panels on all doors
• Routes to be used by public should be clearly signposted
Pedestrians
Separate doors for
vehicles & pedestrians

Vision panel
Pedestrians
Separate doors for
pedestrian access/egress

Vision panel
 Parking Areas

• Suitable & sufficient parking areas for work & private vehicles
• Safe locations – drivers should not have to cross dangerous
areas
• Parking areas should be well lit
 Loading Bays
• Should be at least one exit from lower level
• Safe refuges to prevent crushing
• Edges of bays clearly marked
• Edges may need edge protection
• Protection against adverse weather conditions may be
necessary
 Road Construction
• Constructed of suitable surfaces
• Kept free of obstructions
• Kept free from articles/substances which cause slips/trips/falls
• Constructed of tarmacadam or concrete where possible
• Firm and even with suitable drainage
• Avoid steep gradients
 Lighting

• All roads, manoeuvring areas and yards should be

adequately lit particularly:
– Junctions
– Buildings
– Plant
– Pedestrian areas
– Places where there is regular movement of vehicles or mobile
plant
 Road Signs

• Adequate signposts at relevant places

• Suitable warning signs may be necessary
e.g. sharp bends, steep gradients etc.
• Similar signs may be necessary for
pedestrians
• Where necessary, signs may need to be
illuminated or reflectorized
 Vehicle Design
• Stability
• Safe access/egress
• Service & parking brakes
• Windscreens wipers
• External mirrors to provide
visibility –CCTV may be
necessary
• Horn
• Protection to prevent
injury in event of overturn,
and to protect driver from
falling objects
• Lights, reflectors, reversing
lights and possibly other
warning devices
• Suitable paintings and
markings
• Guards on dangerous parts
• Seats and seat belts
• Protection from adverse
weather
• Protection from
inhospitable environments
e.g. dust, fumes, low
temperature
 Maintenance

• Materials on road should be removed

• Roadways should be maintained
• Signs & lighting cleaned and kept visible
• Road markings renewed when worn
• Pot holes not allowed to develop
 Vehicle Maintenance

• Provide drivers with list of daily checks

• Planned preventive maintenance
• Consider manufacturers recommendations
• Brakes applied & wheels chocked
• Raised bodies suitably propped
• Trained and competent maintenance staff
 Vehicle Maintenance

Built-in prop for

body of tipper
lorry
 Driver Selection

• Over 17 years old normally

• HGV over 21 years old
• Mature & reliable attitude
• Not under influence of drugs/alcohol
• Ensure visiting drivers are competent
 Driver Training

• RA’s should determine level of training

required
• Provide suitable training/certification as
required
• Stress hazards, risks & safe system
• Refresher training as necessary
• Keep training records
 Contractors & Visiting Drivers

• Provide plan of workplace

• Regular meetings
• Check contractors safe systems and
procedures
 Reversing Vehicles

• Remove need for reversing

• One way systems
• Identify & mark reversing areas
• Exclude non-essential personnel from area
• Use banksmen and recognised signals
• Install stop blocks or buffers to prevent vehicles
reversing onto holes
• Reversing alarms
• Sensors and trip devices
• CCTV
• Guidelines on floor may help driver
 Access on to Vehicles

• Restricted to authorised persons

• Edge protection
• Properly constructed ladders
• Non slip grating for walkways
 Loading or Unloading

• Carried out in areas away from traffic

• Not take place near to OH Lines
• Not carried out on steep gradients
• Safeguard against mechanical hazards from tail lifts
• Load/unload as evenly as possible
• Apply brakes
• Do not overload vehicles
 Tipping

• Keep non-essential personnel away

• Carry out at ground level
• Away from OH Lines
• Use wheel stops where necessary
• Jump clear if vehicle is made live
 Tipping

Stop block
Concrete block
 Sheeting & Un-sheeting

• Hazardous when done manually

• Use mechanical sheeting where possible
• Avoid people on top of load
• Carry out away from traffic and strong winds
or bad weather
 Sheeting & Un-sheeting

Example of
mechanically
operated sheeting
system
 Code of Practices / Duidelines

http://
www.dosh.gov.my/index.php/en/legislation/codes-of-practic
e/transportation/589-01-code-of-practice-for-road-transport-
activities-2010/file
http://
www.dosh.gov.my/index.php/en/legislation/codes-of-p
ractice/transportation/590-02-code-of-practice-on-safe
ty-health-and-environment-for-transportation-sector-s
he-code-2007/file
 Gas Cylinder Safety

Please refer to http://

www.iitb.ac.in/safety/sites/default/f
iles/Gas%20Cylinder%20Safety_0
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