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Street furniture risk assessment and method statement
Prepare RAMS for installing bollards and fixed road signs on footways and verges. Add the site and the agreed positions, edit the suggestions and look over the PDF draft.
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What a Street furniture RAMS covers
Setting bollards and sign posts into the ground on the highway or private roads: opening the foundation, fixing the item and reinstating the surface around it.
- Install bollards
- Install fixed road signs
Suggested steps and hazards for Street furniture
What it offers for install bollards before you have answered anything.
Check the weather before you start
- Do not lift or fix bollards, posts and sign panels in strong wind; a large sheet is a sail.
- Stop in heavy rain, ice or lightning, and rest in the shade in hot weather.
Hazard
Wind catches the bollards, posts and sign panels or blows someone off balance at height
Who might be harmed and how
The team and people below
Controls in place
- Agree a wind limit for panels and platforms and check the forecast each morning.
- Tie down or take in loose materials before you leave.
Wind is the main weather cause of falls and dropped loads in outside work at height.
HSE: Work at height Set the bollard clear of pedestrians
- Check the position against the approved street-furniture detail.
- Leave the agreed clear width around the bollard.
Hazard
A badly placed bollard obstructs people using the route
Who might be harmed and how
Installers, pedestrians and drivers
Controls in place
- Do not change the position on site without approval.
- Keep powered or illuminated items outside this operation.
The bollard position must keep the pedestrian route clear.
Street Furniture Guidelines Protect people around the bollard work
- Put out signs and barriers before opening the footway or verge.
- Keep the agreed pedestrian route visible and clear as the work moves on.
Hazard
A pedestrian reaches the open foundation or work area
Who might be harmed and how
Pedestrians, installers and nearby drivers
Controls in place
- Use the diversion or barriered route chosen for this job.
- Keep people out until the surface is safe to use.
A clear route and physical separation protect people from the open work.
Signs, signals and road markings
What the builder asks about Street furniture
Your answers decide which steps, hazards and controls it suggests.
The job
- What type of bollard are you installing?
- What sign and support are you installing?
Where
- How will people get past the work?
- How will people and traffic be kept clear?
- What pipes or cables run under the footway, verge or road edge where the foundation will go?
How it’s done
- What will you stand on to reach the work?
- What surface is the bollard going into?
- What foundation detail are you working to?
- How will the bollards, posts and sign panels get to the work?
- Will you cut anything on site, and with what?
What your Street furniture RAMS includes
Method statement
The sequence of the work, step by step. The suggestions are a starting point; you write the method for the job as it will be done.
Risk assessment
Each hazard, who could be harmed, the controls in place and any further action. There is no risk score: you judge each row against the real site, and adding a hazard does not put its controls in place.
PDF draft for review
The document as you left it, for someone competent to check. A download is not approval and not permission to start work.