المملكة: Warning signs and reflective clothes .. The most prominent requirements of temporary barriers in work areas

The Ministry of Municipalities and Housing has approved the guide to the use of temporary barriers in work areas, in the context of protecting and determining work sites to reduce the risk of injuries to workers and road users, providing traffic safety means and reducing wrong practices that cause visual distortion, and what is required by the public interest.
The ministry obliged the contractor to prepare a traffic transformation plan, including the type of barriers and the duration of implementation, its approval from the General Traffic Department, the Secretariat, coordination with the stakeholders, the implementation of the transfer on the site according to the plan, the maintenance of the shift parts during the work period, and the evacuation of the site as soon as the work is completed.

Securing the work area

With regard to the work area, the evidence confirmed the establishment of an early warning area, so that its length varies according to the speed of the road, and it consists of a group of successive warning traffic signs. Signs of calm and industrial bumps sufficiently from the work area.
The evidence also stipulated the establishment of the transitional area, which is the area of ​​integrating movement paths and vary depending on the speed of the road, then the separation area, stressing the prevention of its use in storing work materials and leaving empty.
She obligated the contractor to fully secure the work area to ensure the safety of vehicles and workers, and it is often secured with the necessary traffic barriers according to the type of business.

The guide is required to make traffic paths clearly visible, to put traffic guidance tools between the path of walking traffic and the work area, secure safe exits and entrances for the work of work to and from the work area, and put adequate warning signs at the entrances to the work area.
It is also possible to use the car carrying the bitter lanes to secure the safety of ongoing business and traffic, and the use of flags and flashing lights on work cars whose movement interferes with regular traffic, and the use of concrete barriers to separate traffic from the work area if they are adjacent to them, and plastic barrels at the end of the area the job.
The evidence emphasized the use of revealing lights, intermittent operational signals, and electrical misery with constant glow, and bright arrows, to provide lighting tonight on the road site.
The evidence for workers wearing reflective clothes, helmet and savty, and protecting them by placing warning signs and reflective tapes, was to include the site of the descent and the rise of workers in the traffic transfer plan, and not to allow them to cross the road.