Traffic Management
A overlooked, but often key component of Operations within a business is the traffic management. Traffic Management is the desired flow of pedestrian and vehicle movements, the expected frequency of interaction of vehicles and pedestrians. Illustrations of the layout of barriers, walkways, signs and general arrangements to warn and guide traffic around, past, or through a work site or temporary hazard.
Traffic Management Plan
Design
There are two principal reasons for a traffic management plan; efficiency and safety. Often this is the foundation of the design of many traffic management plans.
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Implementation
There are also two key steps to the implementation; structure and training. Traffic management must have structural authority within it, and the employees that this may effect must understand how it works.
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Adjustments
When implementing new approaches to operations, there may be many new findings that present themselves. Often, in operations it is crucial to continue the flow of work whilst making small adjustments to original plans to maintain efficiency.
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Maintenance
The continued customisation, enforceability and transferability are crucial to the maintenance of a traffic management plan. Businesses and employees must continue to improve and enforce the plan to ensure the efficiency is not just maintained, but continually improved.
Efficiency & Safety
Efficiency
Many businesses are unaware of the inefficiency of operations without a traffic management plan.
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The value is that there largely can be a standardisation of many tasks, which improves turnover times and lowers a company's throughput rate for products and services.
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Safety
Critical to many businesses and employees, is their own safety. Having a well drafted and implemented traffic management plan ensures a very limited interaction between employees and danger.
The value of safety is that employees do not worry about what goes on around them, as they feel safe. Due to this, many businesses hold value to the people that work within them, and efficiency improves even further.