Synopsis: |
"Part 2 Operations" provides guidance for those responsible for the planning, managing, and participation in operations to implement, maintain and remove temporary traffic management arrangements. It contains advice relating to good working practice spanning all aspects of temporary traffic management operations from broad management issues to concerns involving the activities of individual operatives. Chapter 8 is intended to provide a standard of good practice for the signing and marking of obstructions as well as for the temporary traffic control necessitated by such obstructions of the highway. The standard described is a minimum, which should always be achieved. All authorities, bodies and organisations responsible for all types of roads to which the public have access, are advised to comply with the requirements of Chapter 8 (Part 1 Design and Part 2 Operations), a condition of contract in the case of works carried out on their behalf. "The Traffic Signs Manual Chapter 8" (Part 1 and 2) is applicable in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales."Traffic Signs Manual Chapter 8 Part 2 (Operations)" contains: advice relating to traffic safety measures; guidance on planning, managing and participating in operations to implement, maintain and remove temporary traffic management arrangements; advice relating to good working practice spanning all aspects of temporary traffic management operations; and, sample plans relating to the operational guidance of particular temporary traffic management techniques. |