How to ensure safety of pedestrian in a vehicle motion workplace
safety of passer by in a vehicle moving industry or site is very important. The need for employees and individual who moves with legs to feel safe should be considered when putting in place safety requirements for a vehicle moving workplace environment.
The most common hazards to pedestrians at work are slips, trips and falls on the same level, falls from height, collisions with moving vehicles, being struck by moving, falling or flying objects and striking against fixed or stationary objects.The most effective way of ensuring pedestrians and vehicles move safely around a workplace is to provide separate pedestrian and vehicle traffic routes. Where possible, there should also be a one-way system as this will reduce the need for vehicles to reverse, and will help pedestrians and drivers.
This article will focus on ways to ensure safety of pedestrian in a busy vehicle workplace environment.
1. Provision of walkway( separate route for cars/pedestrian).
Workplace area with moving vehicle should have walkway which is different from the traffic passage route. The pedestrian walkway should be enroute in a way that it allow passage for only pedestrian and not cars, motorcycles etc. The need for pedestrian walkway is what separates vehicle in motion from people in motion thereby improving the need for safety.
2. Employees must deeply understand their responsibility
Safety awareness is very important in a vehicle motion workplace environment. Employees must understand their sole responsibility towards safety of everyone within the environment. This should be done through road safety education and training, and by ensuring that the traffic laws that prioritize pedestrians are widely known and properly enforced.
3. Installation of physical safety barriers.
Physical barriers include steps and curbs that block a person with mobility disabilities from using a sidewalk or entering a building or the absence of an accessible weight scale in a medical office that accommodates people who use wheelchairs. People with disabilities should be considered, therefore the need for physical barriers.
The use of gate, security glass,bollards should be considered for physical safety barriers to promote and ensure safety!.
4. Immediate and safety risk management
The need for immediate and safety risk management should be put in place at all time. Question like what if and what when should be asked to fix unforseen safety issues that are likely to occur.
5. Emphasize on speed limit
Vehicle moving Workplace environment with pedestrian movements should have a speed limits, organization should ensure this speed limit is priotized and followed strictly to avoid safety hazards.
The need for continuous and improvement on safety of pedestrian in a vehicle motion workplace is very important. Motor accident is one of the most serious workplace accident which has led to huge loss of life and decrease in work power, therefore the need to focus and work on this safety area is highly important