24/7 cover · Nationwide from Oxfordshire
Site safety & professional services
The measures that stop an incursion becoming an injury, and the coordination that stops three subcontractors designing three conflicting schemes on the same street.
25 years on live highways · traffic management coordination · incursion prevention and warning systems · dynamic speed signage · Sector Scheme 12A–12D · £10m public liability.
25
Years in traffic management
~300
Operatives & staff
~150
Lorries, vans & cars
£10m
Public liability cover
24/7
Cover, including call-outs
The service
Beyond installing a scheme, projects need somebody making sure the whole traffic management picture holds together: that phases align, that subcontractors are not each designing their own arrangement, that authority conditions are being complied with, and that the measures on site match the approved drawing. That is traffic management coordination.
Alongside it sit the protective systems that reduce risk where a working space is close to live traffic: incursion prevention and warning systems that alert the workforce when a vehicle enters the safety zone, dynamic speed signage that shows drivers their actual approach speed, and monitoring that records what is happening rather than relying on recollection.
It suits principal contractors running multi-phase or multi-subcontractor projects, highways and civils frameworks, local authorities managing several promoters on one network, and any project where the working space sits near a fast running lane or where a location has a history of incursions.
Professional help matters because these are the items most often left to nobody in particular. Coordination that is everybody's responsibility is nobody's, and protective systems specified as an afterthought are usually specified too late to prevent the event they were meant to prevent.
What it costs to get wrong
On a project with several subcontractors, each may be individually compliant while the combined arrangement is not. Two approved schemes overlapping in the same window, a pedestrian route that ends where another party's hoarding begins, a phase change with no defined transition — these are coordination failures, and none of them show up on a single drawing.
Incursions are the second theme. A vehicle entering a safety zone gives the workforce very little warning, and on higher-speed roads none at all without a system to provide it. Locations with a history of incursions keep producing them until the arrangement or the protective measures change.
The third cost is evidentiary. When something happens, the question is what the arrangement was, when it was last inspected, what had been reported and what was done about it. Projects with no coordination and no monitoring records answer that question badly, which is expensive regardless of who was actually at fault.
Our process
Step 1
We review the works, the phases, the parties involved and the road environment, then identify where the traffic management risk actually sits — usually at interfaces, transitions and locations where the working space is closest to live traffic.
Step 2
We establish who is responsible for which arrangement, how phases hand over, how changes are approved, and how authority conditions are tracked, so there is one coherent picture rather than several partial ones.
Step 3
Where the risk profile justifies it we specify incursion prevention and warning systems, dynamic speed signage and additional delineation or conspicuity measures, sized to the road and the exposure rather than applied generically.
Step 4
Systems and measures are installed and integrated with the traffic management scheme so they work with the arrangement rather than alongside it, and the workforce is briefed on what each system does and what to do when it activates.
Step 5
Arrangements are inspected, incursions and incidents are recorded and reported to you, and recurring problems are escalated with a recommendation to change the arrangement rather than repeat it.
Step 6
At phase ends and project completion we review what happened, confirm removal of temporary measures, and hand over the records for your own file and your client's audit.
What you get
In detail
These services are specified against the actual risk on your project rather than as a package. The detail below sets out what each element covers and where it earns its cost.
Coordination covers the whole traffic management picture on a project: phase sequencing, interfaces between parties, transitions between arrangements, compliance with authority conditions, and consistency between the approved drawings and what is installed.
On projects with several promoters or subcontractors it also means being the single party the authority can talk to about road space, which resolves clashes on paper instead of on site.
These systems detect a vehicle entering the safety zone and alert the workforce, giving people in the working space time to move. They are most valuable where the working space is close to a fast running lane, at night, and at locations with a history of incursions.
They are a risk-reduction layer rather than a substitute for correct geometry. Advance signing, taper length and safety zone dimensions still do the primary work; the system covers the case where a driver ignores all of it.
Signage that displays a driver's actual approach speed changes behaviour more reliably than a static limit sign alone, particularly on approaches where the temporary limit is well below the permanent one.
It also generates speed data for the approach, which is useful evidence when discussing an arrangement with the highway authority or justifying additional measures at a problem location.
Inspection regimes are set by scheme duration, road type and exposure, and cover completeness against the drawing, sign condition and conspicuity, barrier continuity, signal operation and pedestrian route integrity.
Records are the deliverable: what was inspected, what was found, what was corrected, what incursions or incidents occurred, and what was recommended as a result. That is what a client or authority audit asks for.
Schemes are delivered under Sector Scheme 12 registration across 12A to 12D, to Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual and to NRSWA requirements, with operatives holding Lantra and NRSWA cards and T1, T2 and T3 tickets.
For pre-qualification we hold Constructionline, CHAS, SafeContractor, Achilles UVDB, Acclaim, BM Trada and ISO 9001, with £10 million public liability and £10 million employers' liability cover. Certificates are issued on request for your own client packs.
We work direct for end clients and as a subcontractor to main and principal contractors, aligning with your site induction, RAMS process, permit-to-work system and reporting formats rather than imposing a parallel set.
Where your project already has a coordination function, we support it with the traffic management detail; where it does not, we provide it. Either way there is one accountable party for the arrangement on the road.
Certificates are issued for your pre-qualification pack on request. We work direct for end clients and as a subcontractor to principal contractors.
Straight answers
Coordination is priced on the scope and duration of the project involvement; protective systems are priced on the equipment, installation and hire period. Both are specified against the actual risk on your scheme, so we quote them individually in writing rather than as a bundled package.
Making the whole picture coherent: phase sequencing, interfaces between parties, transitions between arrangements, compliance with authority conditions, and keeping installed arrangements consistent with approved drawings. On multi-promoter projects it also means being the single point of contact for the authority on road space.
When the working space sits close to a fast running lane, when working at night on high-speed roads, and at any location with a history of incursions. They are a layer on top of correct geometry, not a replacement for it, and they are far more useful specified at design stage than after an event.
Showing drivers their own speed is generally more effective than a static sign alone, particularly where a temporary limit is well below the permanent one. It also produces approach speed data, which is useful when justifying further measures to the highway authority.
Frequency is set by the scheme duration, the road type and the exposure, and it is agreed up front so both sides know what is being delivered. Inspections are recorded, covering completeness against the drawing, sign condition, barrier continuity, signal operation and pedestrian route integrity.
Yes. We align with your site induction, RAMS process, permit-to-work system and reporting formats. Where you already have a coordination function we support it with traffic management detail rather than duplicating it.
Yes, though there are advantages to combining them. Where another contractor is installing the scheme, our role is reviewing, coordinating and monitoring, and we will report honestly on what we find rather than smoothing it over.
Constructionline, BM Trada, CHAS, Acclaim, Achilles UVDB, SafeContractor and ISO 9001, with Sector Scheme 12 registration across 12A to 12D, plus £10 million public liability and £10 million employers' liability cover. Certificates are available for your pre-qualification pack.
Yes. We operate 24/7, including emergency rapid-response call-outs, so overnight faults, damage and incursions are attended and recorded at the time rather than found the following morning.
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Give us the works, the phases and the parties involved. You get a written proposal for coordination, protective systems and monitoring scaled to the actual risk on your scheme.
25 years · Sector Scheme 12A–12D · £10m public liability · 24/7 cover
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