SW Best Practice Focus Group

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SW Best Practice Focus Group SW HAUC
UpdateThursday, 23rd July
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Scope

• The scope of the group will focus on planning and
  co-ordination, minimising disruption, execution
  and quality of work, Health Safety and parity
  between works promoters
• 1. To identify, share and deliver best practice
  by developing detailed proposals to improve
  compliance with the NRSWA 1991 and TMA 2005,
  focusing particularly on
• Minimising disruption to the traveling public
• Forward Planning
• Improved Noticing
• Signing, Lighting Guarding
• Improve quality of work
• 2. To develop and foster a common understanding
  built on trust, mutual respect, openness and
  honesty for the benefit of the traveling public

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Membership of the Group

• Steering Group
• South West Water
• Devon County Council
• Cornwall County Council
• Plymouth City Council
• Torbay Council
• Virgin Media
• Western Power Distribution
• OpenReach
• Wales West Utilities
• Other Parties, particularly the involvement of
  the memberships term contractors, will be as
  appropriate and at the specific request of the
  Steering Group

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Progress

• The Steering Group agreed to focus initial
  efforts on quality of work reinstatement
  compliance, although this quickly extended to
  include SLG compliance
• All Term reinstatement contractors invited to
  attend a compliance sub group meeting to discuss
  general issues surrounding reinstatement SLG
  compliance, two key actions resulted
• Internal review of information passed to
  reinstatement contractors, including accuracy
  quality
• Joint site visits (HA, works promoter, term
  contractor, and reinstatement company)

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Compliance Feedback

• The compliance sub group members then gave a
  short presentation on their findings / individual
  actions, some areas of feedback
• Incomplete / incorrect information passed to
  reinstatement contractors
• Evidence on some sites of poor compaction
  incorrect cavity depths (good practice noted on
  others)
• Importance of good quality backfill materials,
  imported or recycled
• Recognising failure normally occurs in the
  backfill sub base layers
• BBUSL reinstatement summary cards
• Missing incomplete SLG, other sites very good
• Multiple site visits to complete work i.e. Lining
  
• The focus of Supervisors
• The general feedback from all involved was very
  positive and an excellent opportunity to observe
  and discuss issues on the ground

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Compliance Proposed Next Steps

• The SW Best Practice Focus Group propose to
  further develop the points identified through the
  compliance sub group with the aim of producing a
  Supervisors Operatives practical training
  package in support of the relevant COP and
  regulations
• The view of SW HAUC is requested on the following
  points
• Would SW HAUC support this aim, both through
  input into the development and through funding
• Can the training package be linked to the SW HAUC
  A guide to best practice The selection,
  transportation, care and laying of materials for
  reinstatement works

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SW Best Practice Next Steps

• The Steering Group to meet shortly to review
• Further actions resulting from the Compliance sub
  group
• Next area for focus
• Co-ordination / Forward Planning
• Noticing Compliance
• Other hot topics not initially included