Contact with Moving Machinery and Isolation Workplace Transport and Pedestrian Interface Work at Height Struck by Moving or Falling Object Road Traffic Accidents
Contact with moving machinery and isolation (including stored energy) has been identified by MPA's Health & Safety Committee as one of 'The Fatal 6' high consequence hazards that have been the main cause of fatalities over the last decade. By developing industry best practice and guidance, raising awareness using a variety of media, developing useable tools for reducing risk and doing all those exceptionally well with an uncompromising approach, the Health & Safety Committee believe that we could potentially reduce up to 75% of our most serious health and safety incidents.
Published: 2019
This document has been prepared by the MPA and Reece Safety to Share Best Practice and to raise awareness of the subject 'LOTOTO' to help guide the industry to a safer working environment. In this document you will also find also find product information to safe guard the workforce.
Pan mixers are widely used within the industry and this machinery can present a clear risk of serious injury, particularly during cleaning operations which are a regular requirement. MPA has therefore produced this guide for managers and operatives which provides information on the nature of the health and safety hazards which can arise during cleaning operations and the ways in which these can be eliminated or reduced by good design, automation and safe working practices.
Published: 2021
A 147 page, A5 handbook, designed to assist supervisors and managers on site and support other industry technical guidance. Follows the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) cycle. The narrative and practical examples have been taken from materials that were received from MPA members, both large and small, after a request to share best practice on this subject.
Published: 2020
A 23 page, A6 pocketbook, designed for operatives and site personnel, this document describes the variety of traffic, vehicle and pedestrian management plans which when followed appropriately ensure that sites can work safely. It has been prepared to raise awareness of the subject and to help guide the industry towards a safer working environment.
This handbook has been produced to outline how the potential hazards associated with work at height activities can be either eliminated or mitigated. Based on the hierarchy of control, the handbook provides ‘clear, simple and smart’ guidance for those managing Work at Height.
Published: 2022
All workplace falls from height are avoidable and you have the ability to stop an accident before it occurs. This clear, simple, smart booklet provides advice for employees on how they can avoid danger and keep themselves and their colleagues safe by applying the hierarchy of control for all work at height activities.
Stressing of prestressed concrete is acknowledged to be a potentially high-risk activity, involving the use of industrial prestressing equipment that uses hydraulic rams to stretch high-yield wires and strands with forces that can be more than 1500 tonnes. First published in 2014, this second edition brings together the many developments, not only in health and safety legislation, but also in good practice within the prestressing industry.
Published: 2023
Hycontrol, in conjunction with the MPA, has produced this guide to provide information on silo pressurisation and outline how to eliminate or reduce risks by providing appropriate monitoring and detection systems, regular checks and maintenance and safe working practices.
This handbook has been jointly developed by the members of the MPA Transport Committee and Health and Safety Committee, as a tool for working drivers to help them understand and manage the risks that they face and create when driving and operating vehicles for work. It will help people make safer choices about the way they drive and behave around vehicles.
Published: 2026
This handbook has been jointly developed by the members of the MPA, Transport Committee and Health and Safety Committee, as a tool for drivers of cars and vans to help them understand and manage the risks that they face and create when driving and operating vehicles for work. It will help people make safer choices about the way they drive and behave around vehicles.
This guidance is aimed at helping to deliver members’ Zero Harm commitments for their asphalt-laying operations. The principles and detail in the guidance are recommended for adoption by road owners, operators, main contractors and surfacing teams seeking to make highways construction and maintenance sites safer.
This guidance document is the primary output from an MPA Asphalt Contract Surfacing Working Group in relation to Mechanical Road Sweeper and Spray Tanker operations, in particular within the highways construction and maintenance environment.
The document has been developed to give Members, their clients and specifiers, and other stakeholders a focused approach to considering the requirements of operating in this sector, through the adoption of its recommendations