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Workplace Traffic Management Awareness

For everyone on a site with vehicle movements, including delivery drivers and visitors: the traffic management plan, site layout and rules that keep people and vehicles apart.

  • SeriesToolbox Talks
  • AudienceAll workers
  • Duration20–30 minutes
  • CodeHAZ-TRF
  • Version1.0 · 870 KB ZIP

About this package

A workplace traffic management plan sets how vehicles and people move around a site: where vehicles go, where people walk, where they cross, speed limits, loading areas and how delivery drivers and visitors are managed. It only works if everyone knows it and follows it.

This talk covers the parts of a traffic management plan, pedestrian walkways and crossings, speed limits and signs, loading and unloading areas, managing delivery drivers and visitors, and reporting problems with the layout. It is about traffic on your site, not traffic control on public roads, which needs specific qualifications.

Learning outcomes

After the session, participants will be able to:

  • Explain what a workplace traffic management plan covers, and why every site with vehicle movements needs one
  • Follow pedestrian walkways, crossing points and exclusion zones
  • Follow site speed limits, one-way systems, parking rules and signs
  • Describe safe arrangements for loading and unloading, including where drivers wait
  • Explain how delivery drivers, contractors and visitors are inducted and managed on site
  • Report layout problems, missing signs and near misses so the plan can be improved

Training outline

MODULE 1

The traffic management plan

  • What it covers
  • Site layout and separation
  • Who it applies to
MODULE 2

Site rules

  • Walkways, crossings and barriers
  • Speed limits, signs and one-way systems
  • Loading and unloading areas
MODULE 3

Your part

  • Delivery drivers and visitors
  • Following the rules every time
  • Reporting problems and near misses

What is in the package

Training

  • Editable PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes, plus PDF
  • Facilitator guide with a running sheet, discussion prompts and model answers
  • Participant handout with the key points to take away

Records and assessment

  • Attendance record form, to capture who attended, when, and who facilitated
  • Excel attendance register
  • Multiple-choice theory assessment, to record understanding if your business wants to
  • Answer key for the assessment
  • Certificate template

Start here

  • Read Me First guide
  • Product overview
  • Permitted use terms
  • Version information

Practical activities

  • Our site map: workers trace the vehicle and pedestrian routes on your site plan and mark the crossing points
  • Fix the layout: workers suggest improvements to a sample yard layout

Delivery requirements

  • A facilitator such as a supervisor, leading hand or WHS adviser who has read the facilitator guide and knows your site's arrangements for the topic
  • A screen or projector, or printed slides or handouts: it works in a crib room, site office or on a video call
  • Your own site procedures for the topic, to point to during the session

File formats

  • PowerPoint (.pptx), editable, with speaker notes
  • Word (.docx), editable
  • Excel (.xlsx) attendance register
  • PDF copies of the slides, guide, handout and forms
  • Delivered as a single ZIP download

Questions about this package

Can we add our own site procedures and photos?

Yes. The slides, handout and guide are editable, and the facilitator guide marks the places to add your own procedures, contacts and photos of your workplace.

Do we have to use the assessment?

No. It is there if your business wants a record that each worker understood the key points. The attendance record on its own shows who attended and when.

Can we edit the documents?

Yes. Presentations, guides, workbooks and templates are supplied in editable formats so you can adapt them to your workplace. The copyright notice must stay.

Can we use the packages outside Australia?

Yes. The hazards and the controls in each toolbox talk apply in any workplace. The duties slide and the facilitator guide's "check before you deliver" table refer to Australian WHS and OHS laws, licences and standards, so a business elsewhere should swap those for its own country's rules. Everything is editable.

Do participants get a certificate?

Yes. The package includes an editable certificate template, an attendance record (Word, plus an Excel register) and an optional 10-question multiple-choice assessment with an answer key, so you can record who attended and, if you choose, that each worker understood the key points. It is a certificate of completion issued by your business, not a nationally recognised qualification.

Can we deliver it face to face and online?

Yes. The packages are designed for face-to-face sessions and work over a video meeting platform. The facilitator guide notes where an activity needs adjusting for online delivery.

Can we run it more than once?

Yes, as many times as you like, for your own organisation's workers.

What is your refund policy?

Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law are not affected. See the Refund Policy for how we handle a package that is faulty, not as described, or not what you ordered.

Do we get future updates?

You keep the version you bought for as long as you use it, and corrections to that version are made available to you. A new edition, for example following a significant change in the law, may be sold separately.

More answers on the home page, or contact us.

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