#CLOCS Chairmans welcome Brian Weatherley #CLOCS CLOCS weve come - - PDF document

#CLOCS

#CLOCS

Chairman’s welcome

Brian Weatherley

CLOCS – we’ve come a long way

The word is definitely out there…

The debate on cab vision is spreading…

Cycle safety is no longer seen in ‘isolation’…

Better safety by ‘innovative’ design…

Better safety by technology…

Better safety through application…

Better safety through application…

Better safety through ‘conversation’…

Cycle safety still needs to get better…

#CLOCS

Keynote address y

Sir Peter Hendy CBE

#CLOCS

CLOCS: A two year journey y j y

Glen Davies

Programme Manager Transport for London Transport for London

CLOCS: A two year journey

• Introduction and look back
• Introduction and look back
• Adoption and application of the standard

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• Progress towards safer trucks
• From exception to norm
• Next steps and look forward

Looking out for vulnerable road users

A quick recap - The evidence for change

“the management of work-related road risk clearly lags behind the management risk clearly lags behind the management

• f more general health and safety”

Page 10 “there seems to be an underlying attitude that managing road risk is not a legitimate use of time” Page 12 “it can be seen that the blindspot on the mixer is 50% greater than that of the t i id ” curtain side ” Page 15

Industry led response

Clients Industry bodies Logistic operators Contractors Vehicle manufacturers Regulatory bodies Vehicle manufacturers

Delivering CLOCS – programme outcomes

1.1 Increased availability and

uptake of new lorries with

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For work related road safety cultures within

3

A common standard for the construction logistics p 100 percent all round vision and maximum driver direct vision

1 2 All existing lorries are fitted

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• perations to be

considered as important as that of health and safety culture on construction g sector that enables transparency and

• wnership of work related

road risk for developers, their clients and

1.2 All existing lorries are fitted

with appropriate all round vision equipment as standard culture on construction sites their clients and construction logistics

• perators.

Applying the CLOCS standard couldn't be easier

• CLOCS Working Group has

d fi d th t ff ti defined the most effective solutions to meet the CLOCS Standard

• Solution set includes a range of

guidance documents toolkits and guidance documents, toolkits and services

• Standard default solutions cover

the operation, vehicle and driver requirements of the CLOCS requirements of the CLOCS Standard

The CLOCS Standard in contracts

The CLOCS Standard in operations

Standard 3.3 - Driver safety requirements

• Safe Urban Driver (SUD)

training is now available training is now available nationwide F di f SUD i i i

• Funding for SUD training is

available for drivers in London

• An approval process has been

developed to recognise other driver training courses driver training courses

• The DVLA now provide a free

service to check driver licence details

Standard 3.2 - Vehicle safety requirements

• A testing method has been

developed to evaluate the developed to evaluate the effectiveness of safety technology V hi l f d d l

• Vehicle manufacturers and dealers

now provide CLOCS safety equipment as standard equipment as standard

• London’s Safer Lorry Scheme will

ensure all HGVs are fitted with ensure all HGVs are fitted with blindspot mirrors and sideguards

• Standard blindspot warning

signage is available through FORS

Standard 3.1.2 - Collision reporting

Standard 3.1.1 - Quality Operation

• FORS meets the ‘Quality

Operation’ requirement of Operation requirement of CLOCS T hi d f

• Two thirds of operators are

based outside London and FORS is now available across the UK is now available across the UK

• Over 250,000 vehicles accredited

to the scheme from over 3 000 to the scheme from over 3,000 companies and 10,000 depots

• Awarded the Prince Michael

International Road Safety Award as a leader in fleet safety as a leader in fleet safety

Complementary schemes

• Some people like to be

confused by progressive confused by progressive change CLOCS A t d d f

• CLOCS: A standard for

construction clients to specify road safety p y y requirements in contracts

• FORS: An accreditation
• FORS: An accreditation

scheme for vehicle

• perators to demonstrate

they meet the standard

Progress towards safer trucks

The issue: Vehicle blindspots

Understanding HGV blindspots

• To objectively model the areas around

different HGVs by make model and different HGVs by make, model and body type which are:

• Directly visible by the driver through the cab
• Directly visible by the driver through the cab

windshield and windows

• Indirectly visible by the driver through the

mandatory mirror set

• Neither directly, nor indirectly visible by the

driver (i e the blind spots) driver (i.e. the blind spots)

• Loughborough Design School have

laser scanned and digitised a range of laser scanned and digitised a range of HGVs to enable comparisons to be made in driver vision

Direct vision variances by line of sight

Direct vision variances by distance

Spherical projection of direct vision (m2)

Times are changing

If he asked people what they wanted now, they would say bi i d bigger windows “If I had asked people what they If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”

Fleet operator delegation

The evolution of HGV design

1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

Very little change in cab profile and improvement to driver direct vision y g p p

2015 2015 2015

Regulatory change

Operational ground conditions

• Too many off road

capability vehicles are used capab ty e c es a e used

• n urban roads
• We need to:
• We need to:
• Increase understanding of on

road vehicle capability road vehicle capability

• Improve confidence in site and

landfill ground conditions

Min 25° Min 25° Min 25cm Min 25cm Min 25° Min 30cm Min 25cm Min 25cm Min 30cm

Safer Lorry Scheme

• The scheme comes into effect on

1 September 2015 1 September 2015

• Covers the same area as the LEZ

and will operate 24/7 and will operate 24/7

• Ensures that only lorries with

basic safety equipment fitted are basic safety equipment fitted are allowed on London's roads

• Drivers found to be in charge of a

Drivers found to be in charge of a non-compliant vehicle may be issued with:

• £50 Fixed Penalty Notice
• £1000 fine at Magistrates Court

Encouraging wider adoption

CLOCS champions

EPD T ip p e r EPD T ip p e r Hire

National position

• Industry is taking the lead. The

CLOCS standard is being applied CLOCS standard is being applied in contracts nationwide CLOCS Ch i h itt

• CLOCS Champions have written

to the Cycling Ambition Cities calling for support g pp

• CLOCS Champions have

responded to the DfT’s responded to the DfT s consultation on the Cycling Delivery Plan

• Construction and logistics

industries need national industries need national consistency

Transport for London’s application of CLOCS

• We have personal commitment

from Sir Peter from Sir Peter

• TfL contracts have been amended

f ll li C OCS b to fully align to CLOCS but are not restricted to construction logistics logistics

• Support package is in place for

contract managers and suppliers contract managers and suppliers

• Dedicated Road Risk Team

established to raise awareness and increase supplier compliance

Where next?

• Review the CLOCS Standard

based on research and based on research and emerging practice E l i i

• Explore opportunities to

retime and consolidate deliveries deliveries

• Take this construction

industry led initiative to industry led initiative to

• ther sectors
• Continue to influence safer

truck design and encourage

• perators to buy them
• perators to buy them

glendavies@tfl.gov.uk

National roll out of the CLOCS Standard

Gordon Sutherland Thames Tideway Tunnel Catherine Beeckmans Lend Lease

Content

• A common national standard

Cli t ibilit

• Client responsibility
• Where are we now?
• Experience to date
• Implementing the requirement
• Working together to ensure compliance
• Next steps
• Next steps

A common national standard

AIM - Nationwide adoption of CLOCS Standard by:

• Local authorities
• Construction clients
• Principal contractors
• Logistics and transport operators

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• Materials suppliers

Consistency in application and enforcement by clients will build momentum Consistency in application and enforcement by clients will build momentum Promotion through regional and national Champions:

• Devolved parliaments

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• Local authorities and development agencies
• Industry bodies

Who is best placed to Champion the CLOCS message?

Client responsibility

Senior management buy-in Take ownership of risk through the supply Take ownership of risk through the supply chain ‘beyond the site gate’ – Be pro-active Implement the CLOCS Standard to own fleets d b S l and sub-contractors – Set an example Ensure safety requirements are being adhered to adhered to Create a level playing field for operators

CLOCS Requirement: 3.4.7 Supply chain compliance “ Clients shall ensure contractor and subcontractor compliance with requirements” q

CLOCS client champions

Where are we now?

Implementation of CLOCS Standard

• 25 + clients championing standard
• 300 + sites in scope for construction in

2015 with further 3,000 through utilities

• Majority require compliance from new

t t d ith f 90 d contract award with some from 90 days

• Varying levels of compliance checking
• Predominantly London and South East, but

growing in scope nationally

Experience to date

Positive feedback

• Many suppliers supportive of the initiative

Many suppliers supportive of the initiative

• Suppliers are working hard to meet the CLOCS requirements
• Suppliers already specifying new vehicles with safety equipment

BUT greater need for:

• Consistent application and enforcement by clients (including exemptions)
• Communicating relationship between CLOCS and FORS
• Understanding requirements and circumstances beyond London
• Increase in availability of services to meet CLOCS requirements:
• compliant hauliers
• training

High quality, consistent communication from clients

Experience to date

Thames Tideway Tunnel

CLOCS Ch i

Lend Lease

• CLOCS Champion
• Included requirements in

contractual clauses

• CLOCS Champion
• New Contracts – including

requirements in contractual clauses

• Support role established for

internal and external advice to tenderers and contractors q

• Existing contracts being assessed

with a view to ascertaining scope for including requirements

• Liaising with Roads Policing

Command Team regarding education and enforcement g q retrospectively

• Writing to suppliers in April 2015

Informal vehicle checks

• Exploring other possibilities as

developments arise in the industry

• Informal vehicle checks

industry

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Implementing the requirement

Contractual compliance

Stage A: Compliance clauses in contracts Stage B: Self-certification by suppliers Stage C: Follow-up through contracts and g g desk-top monitoring e.g. Checking FORS status

On-site compliance

Level 1: Monitor compliance levels Level 1: Monitor compliance levels Level 2: Warnings issued, if appropriate Level 3: Refuse access to non-compliant vehicles Raising awareness and compliance through communication and reporting

Working together to ensure compliance

DEMAND: CLOCS Client Compliance Toolkit Aid consistent approach to CLOCS rollout and compliance:

• Joint client branded materials
• Clear compliance checking and

Clear compliance checking and enforcement process

• Information for suppliers and

pp client staff

• Consistent compliance check and

p reporting templates

Working together to ensure compliance

SUPPLY: Services to help meet Standard requirements

Alignment of FORS with CLOCS -

• perators at silver level can demonstrate

li t CLOCS compliance to CLOCS Process for approving driver training and list of appro ed s ppliers to cater for list of approved suppliers to cater for national demand Encourage offering of CLOCS compliant Encourage offering of CLOCS compliant packages by suppliers e.g. Retrofit equipment, and new vehicles

Next steps

• Agree the strategy on national roll out through the Client working group

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• Regional and national CLOCS Champions
• Who is best placed to lead on this?
• Cycling Ambition Cities

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• Road safety organisations, regional offices
• CCG
• Assess how issues differ in rural and urban areas, and should we differ

in our approach?

• Continue review and development of CLOCS workstreams
• Sign up and become a CLOCS Champion .. Today!

Final thought

Immediate prohibition 18T skip lorry seized due to:

D i h i i d d i i

• Driver having an expired driving

licence

• Mechanical defects

Break and refreshments

If I could turn If I could turn

BACK time

Jonathon Backhouse Director Director

BHJ Cycling Team BHJ Cycling Team

The Phone Call The Phone Call

• Your vehicle has been involved

in a serious accident & it looks lik h i i h li like the victim, the cyclist, may not make it

• The call no one wants...
• What happens next?

The Silence The Silence

• No information – the unknown
• Everyone in your organisation
• Police are busy investigating,

measuring & checking V hi l i d b th DVSA

• Everyone in your organisation

is affected by it

• Someone has to ring the

d i ’ f il

• Vehicle examined by the DVSA
• r impounded
• Driver, sitting in the back of the

driver’s family , g Police car with access to no

• ne.
• Not yet under arrest but also
• Not yet under arrest but also

not free to leave

• What is happening – has the

victim has made it through?

Arrest Arrest

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• The arrest
• Interviewed for a “first account”
• The driver needs help – right now – from a lawyer

The driver needs help right now from a lawyer

• Emotions – shock, disbelief, guilt,

upset

• Reality of the situation sinking in
• Counselling?

Bl

• Blame
• More than one life ruined

Taking Offence Taking Offence...

C i d h b d d i i

• Causing death by dangerous driving

– Manner of driving – Condition of vehicle Condition of vehicle

• Obviously dangerous, objective test – with hindsight
• Causing death by careless driving
• Prison

Aid & Abet Aid & Abet

A ibl l i ?

• Are you responsible, at least in part?
• Vehicle condition
• Driver condition

Driver condition – Drivers Hours – Medical condition – Drivers licence

• Prison – for you too?

BACK to Reality The Press

N bli i i b d bli i

• No publicity is bad publicity

does not apply to fatal road traffic accidents

• Your name - banded about

with a strong negative connotation connotation

• Your reputation may never

recover

• Long term association with the

incident – even if you are blameless

• Hate mail
• Someone to blame

A moment’s inattention can lead to a lifetime of regret

• Fatal accidents, regardless
• f blame, often ruin the lives
• f a number of individuals –

not just the family of the j y deceased.

BACK to the Law BACK to the Law

• Prevention is better than cure
• The size of the error does not

bear any relationship to the size of the accident (Lord Saville) (Lord Saville)

A high price to pay A high price to pay

C f li P i j b

• Costs of non compliance
• Good compliance is the

grindstone

• Preparation – not just about

managing compliance but considering external risks g

• Operators: meet your
• bligations

R b t t – Robust systems – Training – Auditing Auditing – Action

Jonathon Backhouse jonathon.backhouse@backhouses.co.uk Director

Panel Q&A

The cost of complacency p y Cynthia Barlow RoadPeace Kate Cairns See Me Save Me

RoadPeace – Cynthia Barlow

• National charity for road crash victims and

National charity for road crash victims and the only members’ based charity in the UK

• Helping families after road death and injury

p g j y with emotional and practical support

• Helpline, support programme, local

groups, information guides, remembrance services

• Campaigning for justice
• Working to prevent future victims

The Cost of Complacency The Cost of Complacency

Thurs 26th February 2015 CLOCs ExCeL Centre London CLOCs, ExCeL Centre, London

Kate Cairns:

• Founder, See Me Save Me
• ICE CWG

Independent Consultant:

• Independent Consultant:

Sustainability / Construction Logistics

• Lorry Danger Reduction Group

Lorry Danger Reduction Group

Introduction:

• What happens when it goes wrong

See Me Sa e Me

• See Me Save Me
• Why you

What happened? What happened? 5th February 2009 08 56hrs 08.56hrs Notting Hill Gate

Challenges Challenges

• MPS
• CPS

CPS

• Coroner

Outcome of case

• Pleaded guilty

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• 3 points on driver licences
• Fined £250
• Fined £250
• Continued driving immediately

Lorry driver

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• serial killer of London cyclist and pedestrian –

pleads guilty

By charlie@lcc on at 07:26am 29 Juy 2012

"How could Lopes get away with altering his tachograph, deliberate criminality that endangered every other road user without his employer knowing? every other road user, without his employer knowing? "Why did the coroner examining Eilidh Cairns’ death y g and the police investigators say that nothing could be done to prevent similar fatalities happening again? "Why was Lopes given his licence back after clearly being incapable of safely controlling a large lorry?"

Vision: Zero KSI by HGV Mission: Off site safety = On site safety safety Aims:

• Best available vehicles
• Best available drivers
• Best available operations

Best available operations

Campaign Influence:

• Legislation: EU, UK, London, regional
• Media: TV, radio, broadsheets, local,

trade

• Industry: CC, companies, trade press

Henry Lang, 40, IT Specialist Cyclist killed by dustcart in London 21st July 2014 Leo Gregory, 12, Schoolboy Pedestrian killed by skip lorry in Exeter 28th Aug 2014 Chris Dennehy, 58, Charity fundraiser Cyclist killed by HGV in Plymouth 5th Sept 2014 Anna Roots, 34, Rower Cyclist killed by lorry in Bettyhill, Scotland 7th Sept 2014 Sylvia Russell, 69 Pedestrian killed by lorry in Worcester 29th Sept 2014 Julian Barlow, 49, keen cyclist Cyclist killed by HGV in Selby 29th Sept 2014 Unknown Male, 30s Pedestrian killed by lorry in London 2nd Oct 2014 Maurice Baxter, 80 Pedestrian killed by lorry in London 16th Oct 2014 Janina Gehlau, 26, Art history graduate Cyclist killed by container lorry in London 17th Nov 2014 Michael Thompson, 24 Pedestrian killed by HGV in Uttoxeter 16th Oct 2014 17th Nov 2014 Unknown Female, late 50s Pedestrian killed by lorry in London 5th Nov 2014 Ilse Forster, 91 Pedestrian killed by lorry in Church Stretton, Shropshire, 17th Nov 2014 Jeff Fletcher, 36, Guitarist Pedestrian killed by a HGV in Stockport 17th Nov 2014 Unknown Female, 80s Pedestrian killed by tipper truck in London 20th Nov 2014 Assia Nikoforova, 69 Pedestrian killed by HGV in London 9th Dec 2014

Elizabeth Jallum, 79, Pedestrian killed by HGV in London 12th Dec 2014 Peter Pelari, 84, Grandfather of three Pedestrian killed by lorry in Brownhills, W. Midlands 19th Dec 2014 Unknown male, 56 Pedestrian killed by recycling lorry in Inverness 31st Dec 2014 Andrew Wolfindale, 35 Cyclist killed by HGV in Coventry 6th Jan 2015 Michael Brook, 65, retired maths teacher Pedestrian killed by lorry in Brighouse,

• W. Yorkshire

13th Jan 2015 Stephanie Turner, 29, Physiotherapist Cyclist killed by tipper truck in London Les Baker, 80, grandfather Pedestrian killed by HGV in Pinhoe Exeter Akis Kollaros, 34, Music producer & sound engineer Cyclist killed by tipper truck in London Frederica Baldassa, 26, Fashion buyer Cyclist killed by lorry in London Mitzi Rosanna Steady, 4 Pedestrian killed by tipper truck in Bath Cyclist killed by tipper truck in London 20th Jan 2015 Pinhoe, Exeter 27th Jan 2015 Cyclist killed by tipper truck in London 2nd Feb 2015 Cyclist killed by lorry in London 6th Feb 2015 Bath 9th Feb 2015 Anne Naysmith, 76, former Concert pianist Pedestrian killed by lorry in London 10th Feb 2015 Claire Hitier-Abadie, 36, Mother of two Cyclist killed by tipper truck in London 19th Feb 2015

Action: Voluntarily by Industry Action: Voluntarily by Industry

Leadership & responsibility

• Leadership & responsibility
• Supply chain through contract

documents

• Audit and enforcement

kate.cairns@gmail.com K Cairns K Cairns @SeeMeSaveMe @KCairns1 W SeeMeSaveMe.com

Closing remarks g Brian Weatherley

Lunch and exhibition