Temporary Traffic Management - CPD workshops

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This half day practical workshop is designed to assist local government, and others working in local streets, with practical cost-effective TTM solutions which deliver safe WHS outcomes.  This workshop demonstrates how to significantly improve the efficiency of TTM application at your sites.

Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) arrangements often applied in the local road environment are frequently reported and observed to be excessive and lacking in common sense for the scale of the works and level of risk.  Combined with the TTM costs consequently representing 40 to 80% of the actual job costs, a clear need exists for more appropriate solutions.

Dr Dan Sullivan has assisted local authorities and utility organisations since publication of the Guides to Temporary Traffic Management in identifying / developing cost and risk effective solutions for TTM in these environments.  Observations on site with clients confirm that in many cases “conservatively safe” practices are being applied by others.  However, these practices are typically time consuming to implement, reduce productivity and increase TTM costs.  Perversely they often introduce more safety risks than they mitigate.

Documented relaxations and practices exist for exactly these situations.  There are also opportunities to develop risk-based solutions which are more practicable, improve works efficiency, reduce TTM costs and reduce the WHS risks at the site.

This half-day workshop provides a practical overview of the documented relaxations and application in these local street environments and includes the opportunity to develop case examples for the TTM at your works activities.

Public workshops now on through IPWEA-QNT or book direct for an in-house workshop at your Council or organisation.  

The risks to workers and the public at worksites on or near roads represents one of the highest Work Health and Safety (WHS) risks for most organisations involved in construction or maintenance activities in a road corridor.  Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) practices are the key measure applied at most sites to mitigate this risk.  However, simply employing a company that specialises in TTM delivery does not absolve road authorities, contractors, utility providers, and other organisations from the responsibility or accountability to ensure that everything is being done to “mitigate the risks as much as is reasonably practicable”.  

This workshop is primarily aimed at staff involved in the areas of planning and managing road construction and maintenance activities.  Technical practitioners will also gain a good understanding of the roles of various parties in ensuring safety at worksites on or near roads.  

Public workshops now on through IPWEA-QNT, AfPA or book direct for an in-house workshop at your Council or organisation.  

 2 hour workshop providing an overview of TTM basics that Project Managers need to consider and apply when managing projects involving TTM.  Using case examples an overview is provided of: 

• Project Manager responsibilities. 
• TTM basics.  A brief overview of the various TTM roles, the Traffic Management Plan, Traffic Guidance Schemes—what to look for and the questions to ask.   
• Development of TTM requirements for project briefs.  
• What project managers should look for during the works. 
• The role of surveillance and audit of TTM.

Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management (AGTTM) Part 10 identifies that “the application of risk management for TTM at road works is appropriate at all levels of planning and operation, from the minor and routine schemes through to large scale and complex road work sites”.  The appropriate completion of a robust risk assessment and management process is also a key part of the Work Health and Safety (or equivalent) obligations for all organisations involved in temporary traffic management.  

A key risk in the conduct of TTM is that the risk management process itself can frequently be perceived as onerous paperwork that interrupts completion of the works task.  It is critical that employers in TTM ensure that risk management is more than simple application of generic checklists which can typically be simply ticked off.  

This series of introductory webinars on risk management for TTM has been developed to assist practitioners and organisations in TTM understand the practical application of the guidance in AGTTM and AS/ISO 31000.  Steps and examples of industry best practice in risk management are stepped through in each of the three major steps of a TTM project.  

This workshop is typically for road agency officers who review and approve Temporary Traffic Management Plans (TMPs) and Traffic Guidance Schemes (TGSs) who may not hold the formal TTM Traffic Management Design qualification.  The workshop provies an introduction to the basics of the TMP and TGS so that they attendees know what to look for and when to seek additional technical advice. 

This workshop is focussed at those undertaking surveillance and audit of TTM at road worksites.  It can be attended by those who carry out this role with or without the TMD qualification however some elements will require the more detailed TMD knowledge.  This workshop provides an overview of: 

• Roles of surveillance and audit officers. 

• Compliance

1. Inspecting the TTM on site for compliance with the TGS
2. TGS compliance with Standards, Manuals and Guidance
3. Common items to consider

• Suitability

1. Alignment of the TTM with the requirements of the project brief   

• Operation

1. Safety operation of the TTM
2. Network performance operation of the TTM