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Traffic Management and Working Near Roads Awareness

Name: Traffic Management and Working Near Roads Awareness
Price: 49 AUD
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A practical, interactive awareness course on managing the risks created by mobile plant, work vehicles and public traffic on and around worksites. Understand why vehicle-pedestrian interactions cause serious harm, how traffic management plans and traffic guidance schemes control that risk and the everyday controls, exclusion zones, spotters, high-visibility clothing, signage, barriers and safe reversing, that keep people and vehicles apart. Includes a worksite decision scenario and self-checks along the way.

Also relevant for: Construction and Trades, Manufacturing and Industrial, Mining and FIFO, Warehouse, Transport and Logistics

About 45 minutes100% online, self-pacedSix months of access

What You Will Learn

Explain why moving vehicles, mobile plant and public traffic are among the most serious hazards on and near worksites
Describe how separating people from vehicles, using the hierarchy of controls, reduces the risk of being struck
Outline the purpose of a traffic management plan (TMP) and a traffic guidance scheme (TGS) and how they are used on site
Recognise key on-site controls: exclusion zones, spotters, high-visibility clothing, signage and barriers, and when each is appropriate
Identify the extra risks of reversing and blind spots, and the safe-work steps that reduce them

Course Content

Final Assessment: 10 questions, 80% pass mark, retakes available

Who This Course Is For

Construction, civil, utilities, warehousing and outdoor workers, supervisors, plant operators and anyone who works on or near roads and around moving vehicles or mobile plant.

Written by Kam Askari, Managing Director of Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Lead Auditor. MBA, Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, MAICD. Checked against the sources listed below.

Sources and Legal References

Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.

Accreditation: This is a non-accredited awareness course. It builds general safety awareness only. It is not accredited traffic controller or traffic management training, does not provide a Traffic Controller (TC) or Traffic Management Implementer (TMI) ticket or any equivalent statement of attainment and does not authorise you to control traffic, set out signs on a road or work as a traffic controller. Roles that direct or manage traffic require accredited training and authorisation under the relevant state road authority and WHS/OHS laws.