1. A Toolbox Talk for Pedestrian Safety In Quarries and Surface Mining
Follow our Footsteps
A Toolbox Talk for
Pedestrian Safety
In Quarries and Surface Mining
This toolbox talk may be freely reproduced except for advertising, endorsement or commercial purposes. It has been developed by the Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee (QNJAC) to help quarry operators, contractors, managers and others make health and safety improvements in the quarry industry.
This guidance represents good practice which may go further than the minimum you need to do to comply with the law.
If you use the information provided in this document please acknowledge ‘QNJAC’ as the source .

2. Note to Presenters
This Toolbox Talk is to be presented in conjunction with the QNJAC Guide “Pedestrian Safety in Quarries and Surface Mining”

3. Definition of a Pedestrian
A “Pedestrian” can be defined as someone who is ON SITE and ON FOOT but is not in an office, weighbridge or welfare building on site .
Employees
Contractors
Hauliers
Delivery drivers
Official visitors (including enforcement officers/regulators)
Members of the public:
Customers/visitors to site
Persons using public rights of way that cross through operational areas of quarries (this category might also include cyclists and horse riders)
Persons accidentally or deliberately trespassing
At some point, everybody will be a pedestrian on site

4. Why Pedestrian Safety
On a Saturday morning a foreman and quarry operative were processing materials in a small quarry. Following a midmorning tea break together, in the canteen near the quarry entrance, they both set off to return to the working quarry.
The quarry operative drove his front end loader and the foreman walked along the haul road to his 360 tracked excavator. This was something they had done several times a day for over six years. It was a bright sunny winter day with the sun very low in the sky.
As the quarry operative drove the front end loader forwards along the quarry floor to the processing area, towards the low sun, he did not see the foreman and ran over him. The foreman never recovered consciousness and later died of his injuries.

5. What Should Sites Consider
Identification of hazards.
Apply the hierarchy of control.
Design and implement a scheme for the safe management and movement of pedestrians on site.
Educate workforce regarding pedestrian safety.
Monitor and review effectiveness of scheme.

6. Where to Start Involve the workforce: Go, Look, See.
Pedestrians
Work area representatives
Safety Committee
Go, Look, See.
Review the area for current Hazards & Controls.
Consider hazard control option.

7. Can we Remove the Need for Pedestrian Access
Removing the need for pedestrian and mobile plant interaction provides the most comprehensive control, examples may include:
Service vehicle access
Pedestrian free areas
Radio communication
Observation points
Drone surveying
CCTV

8. Physical Controls Segregation Dedicated walkways Crossing points
Pedestrian entry barriers

9. Procedural Controls
Documented information for the safe operation on site:
Parking
Traffic routes
Competence requirements
PPE
Emergency arrangements

10. Personal Protective Equipment
Is a last line of defence.
Selection and suitability for the environment.
Will deteriorate over time and through washing process.
Needs to be readily available.
Requires means of ensuring compliance with site rule on wearing.

11. Behaviour Controls
Physical and procedural controls need to followed by the people who are affected by the hazards.
Management systems need to ensure there are means of monitoring compliance with controls:
Worker consultation
Safety walks & observations
Periodic audits

12. As a Pedestrian Be seen Don’t assume you have been seen
Observe communication protocols
Observe dedicated walkways
Use dynamic risk assessment to assess changing situations

13. Assessing Changing Situations
Use dynamic risk assessment to apply controls in changing situations:
Weather conditions
Changes to traffic routes
Additional site activity
Same Road, changed weather conditions

14. Why Pedestrian Safety…

15. Consider Pedestrian Safety on Your Site….
Open Discussion…..
What are we doing well?
What opportunities do we have?
Who are our pedestrians?
Are we doing all we can to protect them?
How can I make a difference?