Road and similar transport

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10. Road and similar transport

10.1. Roads and traveiways

10.1.1. Suitable roadways should be built to all places on

construction sites to which road vehicles have to go.

10.1.2. Parts of the site that are dangerous for road vehicles

should be:

fenced off; or

signposted.

10.1.3. Danger signs for road vehicles should be clearly

visible by day or night.

10.1.4. Truck or tractor roads used for construction opera-

tions should be constructed and maintained so as to be safe for

traffic in accordance with requirements which should be laid down

by the competent authority.

10.1.5. In particular, truck roads should have gradients,

surface, width and curves suitable for the traffic that they will

have to carry.

10.1.6. Adequate guard-rails or fenders should be provided

on bridges and alongside precipices, ravines and other declivities.

10.1.7. Bridges, trestles and their approaches should be

inspected at suitable intervals.

10.1.8. Icy or otherwise slippery stretches of truck roads

should be strewn with sand or other suitable non-slip material,

especially on gradients and curves.

10.1.9. At approaches to level crossings, truck roads should

not slope steeply.

10.2. Tractor and motor truck construction

General provisions

10.2.1. Tractors and motor trucks should be of sufficiently

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