Traffic Management Plan

                                   TRAFFIC GUIDANCE SCHEME/S (TGS) COVER SHEETS – 31 BOTTLEBRUSH AVE – NOOSA HEADS
                                        GENERAL INFORMATION, NOTES AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS

                                                CLIENT:                                      COLE PROJECTS                       PROJECT DESCRIPTION:            RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION
                                                CLIENT CONTACT:                              CAMERON COLE                        WORKS LOCATION:                 31 BOTTLEBRUSH AVE – NOOSA HEADS
                                                POSITION:                                    PROJECT MANAGER                     NEAREST SIDE STREETS:           BERRIMA ROW
  TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT DESIGNER:                  CLIENT CONTACT PHONE:                        0407 593 956                        ROAD CONFIGURATION:             TWO WAY
GUY HALLIDAY – TMD CERT. # OP-259               SITE CONTACT:                                STEVE COLE                          ORIGINAL POSTED SPEED:          50Km/H
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT & PLANNING                   SITE CONTACT PHONE:                          0412 552 971                        WORKSITE SPEED:                 50KM/H
DESIGN DATE: 31/05/2021                         NOMINATED TRAFFIC CONTROL CO:                TBA                                 PROPOSED START DATE:            TBA
REVISION: ORIGINAL DOCUMENT                     NOMINATED TRAFFIC OFFICER:                   TBA                                 DURATION OF WORKS               8 MONTHS
MUTCD: PART 3 – NINTH ISSUE, 2019               N.T.O CONTACT PHONE:                         TBA                                 TGS DIAGRAMS COVERED:           CP-BOTT-TGS1, 1A, 2
CLAUSE 1.5 – MUTCD – RESPONSIBILITY FOR SAFETY AT WORK SITES:
Organisations and individuals responsible for works in accordance with this Part of the Manual need to be aware of their responsibilities for any injury to road users or damage to property as a result of such operations.
There is an equally important obligation to provide a safe workplace environment that minimises, as far as practicable, the likelihood of injury to workers by traffic within or adjacent to the work area.
Principals and contractors need to be aware of the requirements of OHS legislation and implement them as they apply to this obligation.
Supervisory personnel carrying out construction, maintenance or other works that require the use of a Traffic Guidance Scheme shall give attention to the following:
a) Be mindful of their responsibility to provide, as far as practicable, a safe workplace for personnel and plant under their control, and safe and convenient travelling conditions for road users.
b) Ensure that personnel under their control are, at all times, courteous to road users. Personnel should not allow themselves to become distracted by provocation from members of the public.
c) Ensure that personnel are competent to perform the roadwork signing task (See Clause 1.4.3).
d) Ensure that all personnel at a work site are aware of their responsibilities.
e) Ensure that Traffic Controllers are appropriately trained and informed of their duties and that they are regularly relieved from their duty (see Clause 4.10.5).
f) Be familiar with, and act, as far as is practicable, in accordance with the provisions of this Part of the Manual.
                           SITE LOCATION OVERVIEW MAP

                                                                                                                         • Setting out and recovery of devices
                                                                                                                            Existing signs and traffic control devices which are inappropriate to, or conflict
                                                                                                                            with, the temporary worksite situation shall be fully covered or removed.
                                                                                                                           Before work commences, signs and devices at the approaches to and within the
                                                                                                                           work area should be set out in accordance with the traffic guidance scheme in the
                                                                                                                           following sequence:
                                                                                                                           (a) Advance warning and regulatory signs (including temporary speed zone signs).
                                                                                                                           (b) All intermediate advance warning and regulatory signs and devices required in
                                                                                                                               advance of the taper or start of the work area.
                                                                                                                          (c) All delineating devices required to form the taper including the illuminated
                                                                                                                              flashing arrow sign at the end of the taper where required.
                                                                                                                          (d) Delineation of the work area or side-track.
                                                                                                                          (e) All other required warning and regulatory signs including termination and end of
                                                                                                                              temporary speed zone signs.

                                                                                                                        • Defining and protecting the work area
                                                                                                                          The travelled path on the approaches and past the work area shall be delineated
                                                                                                                          so as to properly define which part of the roadway is available to road users, or the
                                                                                                                          path that traffic is required to follow, under all reasonably expected weather and
                                                                                                                          atmospheric conditions, day or night as applicable.
TGS OVERVIEW
The objective of this document is to provide the client, subcontractors and Traffic                                        Delineating devices (e.g. traffic cones, bollards, post mounted delineators) should
Management personnel carrying out works at this location with a specified                                                  generally be placed 1 m clear of the travelled path where practicable. However,
arrangement for the signing and delineation of construction and maintenance works                                          traffic cones and bollards may also be used to define the edge of the travelled path
which will promote the safety of both workers and the public at the work site.                                             or to separate opposing traffic.

This Traffic Guidance Scheme has been developed based on the brief of information                                          In addition to providing adequate traffic control and guidance at a static work site
provided by the client, as well as a risk assessment of the location and its observed                                      the safety of road users will be enhanced by ensuring that the work site is
and/or interpreted risks and associated hazards. The TGS diagram/s detail the traffic                                      managed in such a way as to cause the minimum amount of inconvenience to
control signs, devices and control measures to be applied at the relevant work sites                                       traffic movement. Works
in order to warn traffic and guide it through, past or around the work area.                                               should be arranged to minimise -
                                                                                                                            (i) disruption of established traffic movements and patterns;
The purpose of this Traffic Guidance Scheme is to ensure the safety of all workers                                          (ii) interference with traffic at peak movement periods;
within the work site, as well as the general public.                                                                        (iii) interference with public transport services; and
                                                                                                                            (iv) the amount of road closed to traffic at any one time.
GENERAL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
• A TMR certified Traffic Management Implementation (TMI) Officer must implement                                        • Risk management
  (or directly supervise the implementation of) the TGS. Approval for erection or                                         Risk management entails the identification and analysis of all safety risks likely to
  removal of regulatory traffic control devices shall be obtained from the Department                                     arise during works on road including the setting up, operating, changing and
  of Transport and Main Roads or appropriate road authorities before implementing                                         ultimate dismantling of a Traffic Guidance Scheme, followed by the determination
  this Traffic Guidance Scheme.                                                                                           of appropriate measures to mitigate those risks. The process is appropriate at all
                                                                                                                          levels of planning and operation. In each case the process should be carried out
• Risk management - Risk management entails the identification and analysis of all                                        by first identifying all the hazards likely to arise, evaluating them in terms of
  safety risks likely to arise during works on road including the setting up, operating,                                  likelihood of occurrence and adverse consequences using historical data,
  changing and ultimate dismantling of a Traffic Guidance Scheme, followed by the                                         experience or other means. The proposed procedural statement or Traffic
  determination of appropriate measures to mitigate those risks. The process is                                           Guidance Scheme should then be checked in detail to ensure that adequate
  appropriate at all levels of planning and operation. In each case the process                                           means of controlling or reducing those risks found to be significant, are in place.
  should be carried out by first identifying all the hazards likely to arise, evaluating
  them in terms of likelihood of occurrence and adverse consequences using                                              • Traffic Controllers
  historical data, experience or other means. The proposed Traffic Guidance                                               The regulation provides that the function of a traffic controller is to direct traffic in a
  Scheme should then be checked in detail to ensure that adequate means of                                                way stated in the MUTCD and the TCASAP.
  controlling or reducing those risks found to be significant, are in place.
                                                                                                                           Traffic controllers shall be relieved from their duty after not more than 2 hours for a
• Positioning of devices                                                                                                   period of rest or “other duties” of at least 15 minutes. [NOTE: “Other duties” does
  Signs and devices should be positioned and erected so that–                                                              not include operation of a STOP/SLOW bat to control traffic or any duties involving
  a) they are properly displayed and securely mounted (see Clause 3.3 - MUTCD);                                            standing in one position or controlling traffic with a traffic control device].
  b) they are within the line of sight of the intended road user;
  c) they cannot be obscured from view (for example, by vegetation or parked cars);                                        Approach speeds to locations where Traffic Controllers are operating shall be
  d) they do not obscure other devices from the line of sight of the intended road                                         controlled to 60 km/h or less by means of appropriate devices and advance signs
      user;                                                                                                                including a temporary speed zone.
  e) they do not become a possible hazard to workers, pedestrians, or vehicles;
  f) they do not deflect traffic into an undesirable path;                                                                 Traffic controllers must ensure that they have a clear escape path to a non-traffic
  g) they do not restrict sight distance for drivers entering from side roads or streets,                                 (closed) section of the roadway, shoulder, footpath or median. Traffic controllers
      or private driveways; and                                                                                            must stand facing the traffic but just outside the projected travel path. A traffic
  h) they are not installed using supports that could be a hazard if struck by a                                           controller must ensure that they are not partially hidden by signs and/or devices
  vehicle.                                                                                                                 and they do not obstruct a driver's view of such signs and/or devices. Traffic
                                                                                                                           controllers shall also be provided, if necessary, to control the movement of plant
                                                                                                                           and / or pedestrians through, past or within the trafficable area.



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