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Welcome to the YJUG CARE initiative presentation

Welcome to the YJUG CARE initiative presentation. Agenda. Why have you been invited today? Our responsibilities How our signing, lighting and guarding performance is monitored The consequence of getting it wrong YJUG working group CARE initiative.

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Welcome to the YJUG CARE initiative presentation

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  1. Welcome to theYJUG CARE initiative presentation

  2. Agenda • Why have you been invited today? • Our responsibilities • How our signing, lighting and guarding performance is monitored • The consequence of getting it wrong • YJUG working group CARE initiative

  3. Why have you been invited to attend today? • Safety of public and workforce • Raise awareness of importance of Signing / Lighting and Guarding compliance • Introduce YJUG CARE initiative

  4. Our Responsibilities • New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 • Section 65 – Safety Measures (Red Book) HASAWA 1974 CDM regulations • Disability Discrimination Act • Introduced in 1995 • Duty under this law to ensure disabled pedestrians can use the highway safely • Tapping rails • Wheelchair ramps

  5. How is Signing, Lighting and Guarding compliance monitored? • Random sample inspection process • Category A (Signing / Lighting / Guarding) • 90% compliance level • Improvement notice • Highway Authority routine inspections • Yorkshire Water audits • Members of public • Police • YOU

  6. The consequence of getting it wrong! • Improvement notice served by Highway Authority • Directors become involved • 100% audits carried out on teams • Leads to zero tolerance with those that are not performing • Increased inspections • Deterioration of our relationships with HA’s • 3rd Party insurance claims for accidents associated with badly set up sites • Health & Safety Executive can become involved • FATALITY

  7. YJUG CARE Initiative • Card issued to every employee • Carry enough equipment • Achieve right first time standards • Regularly maintain sites • Ensure speedy closure of works • To promote better signing, lighting and guarding • Raise awareness of pedestrians needs, in particular disabled pedestrians • Encouragement for you to take responsibility for setting up safe sites

  8. We want to go from this.................

  9. To this.................

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