Traffic Control Measures Checklist
This template provides a structured approach to implementing and assessing traffic control measures in your workplace. It comprehensively covers vehicle and pedestrian routes, vehicle movement protocols, warning devices, and traffic signage. Use this checklist to document defective equipment with photos and assign corrective actions to the appropriate team members.
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How to Use This Checklist
- The inspection team completes the identification fields, including when and where the inspection was carried out and who prepared it.
- Test the physical separation between pedestrians and vehicles, from entry and exit points through to the layout of walkways, vehicle routes, and powered mobile equipment.
- Inspect the routes themselves, including internal roads, loading and unloading zones, parking capacity, surface condition, and any corners that restrict visibility.
- Examine how vehicles move, covering traffic flow, one-way systems, reversing, speed limits, and traffic calming measures.
- Check traffic signs, exclusion zone signage, lighting for sign visibility, and warning devices such as flashing lights, proximity sensors, and reversing alarms.
- Review the human side of traffic control, including operator licences and model specific training, site training for workers, instruction for visitors and delivery drivers, supervision, and personal protective equipment.
- Assess vehicle safety, including vehicle selection, visibility aids, brakes, seatbelts, the maintenance program, defect reporting, and pre-use safety checks.
- Record any additional control measures you identify, along with a signature and the inspection start and end dates.
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Why traffic control measures matter
Traffic on a workplace site mixes people on foot with vehicles and powered mobile plant. When that mix is not managed, the consequences are serious. This checklist exists to help you look at your own site and confirm that pedestrians and vehicles are kept apart, that routes are fit for the traffic using them, and that the rules governing how vehicles move are understood and followed. > The purpose of the inspection is not to produce paperwork, it is to find the gaps before an incident does. A structured walk-through gives you a repeatable way to check the physical layout, the signage, the equipment, and the training and supervision that hold the whole system together. Where something is wrong, the checklist lets you document the defective equipment with photographs and assign corrective actions to the right people.
What a good traffic control checklist covers
This template works through ten sections. Understanding what sits in each one helps you get the most from the inspection.
Separation and supervision
The checklist begins with separation between pedestrians, vehicles, and powered mobile equipment. You will look at whether entry and exit points are designated and separate for both vehicles and pedestrians, whether they safeguard pedestrians from vehicle collisions, and whether control measures such as physical barriers, exclusion zones, and designated safety areas are in place. It then examines who is on site and how well they are equipped to work safely: whether operators hold the appropriate current high-risk work licences, whether they have been trained on the specific model of plant they operate, and whether workers, visitors, and external delivery drivers have been given information and clear instruction about moving around the workplace. Supervision is also checked. The question is whether the level of supervision is adequate to monitor traffic movement and keep both pedestrians and drivers safe. Personal protective equipment, such as high-visibility clothing, should be provided, maintained, and consistently worn where it is required.
Routes, movement, and signage
Vehicle routes should accommodate the largest vehicle using them, with firm, stable, and evenly constructed surfaces kept free of obstructions and debris. They should be regularly inspected and maintained, and they should not include sharp or blind corners that create visibility hazards. Loading and unloading zones should be clearly delineated, parking capacity should be sufficient and properly used, and traffic flow directions should be clearly indicated. Pedestrian routes need the same attention. Walkways should be physically separated from vehicle traffic, clearly marked, and regularly maintained, with a defined safe route that lets visitors reach the site office and facilities without crossing vehicle paths. For vehicle movement, the checklist asks whether drive-through and one-way systems have been implemented to minimise reversing, whether non-essential personnel are kept out of reversing areas, and whether traffic calming measures such as speed limiters on mobile plant or chicanes on vehicle routes keep speeds safe. Drivers are expected to follow designated routes, observe posted speed limits, and follow site traffic rules. Signage and warning devices complete the picture. Speed limit signs and powered mobile plant hazard warnings should be clearly posted, exclusion zones clearly signposted, and lighting adequate to keep signs visible, particularly at night. Flashing lights, proximity sensors, and audible reversing alarms should be installed and working on all powered mobile plant.
Vehicle safety
The final section looks at the vehicles themselves. Vehicles and powered mobile plant should be selected to match the tasks they perform, and fitted with adequate direct visibility or supplementary aids such as external mirrors, side mirrors, and reversing sensors. Service brakes and parking brakes should be effective and properly maintained, and seatbelts fitted where required and consistently used. The checklist also asks for a documented, regularly scheduled maintenance program, a clear and accessible system for reporting faults and defects, and a requirement for drivers to perform and document basic pre-use safety checks before operating a vehicle.
How to conduct the inspection
1. **Prepare before you walk the site.** Record the location, the date, and who is carrying out the inspection. Decide who needs to be involved so you can cover both the physical layout and the training and supervision questions. 2. **Start with separation.** Walk the entry and exit points, then the boundary between pedestrian walkways and vehicle routes. Look for barriers, exclusion zones, and designated safety areas, and test whether a visitor could reach the office without stepping into a vehicle path. 3. **Walk the vehicle routes.** Check width against the largest vehicle, surface condition, obstructions, and visibility at corners. Inspect loading and unloading zones, parking areas, and the clarity of traffic flow directions. 4. **Watch vehicles move.** Observe speeds, reversing, one-way systems, and compliance with site traffic rules. Check the placement and visibility of speed limit signs, hazard warnings, and exclusion zone signage, including under night time lighting conditions. 5. **Check the equipment and the people.** Confirm warning devices on powered mobile plant, verify operator licences and model specific training, and review the training and instruction given to workers, visitors, and delivery drivers. Look at supervision levels and whether high-visibility clothing is provided and worn. 6. **Review vehicle safety records.** Look at the maintenance program, the defect reporting system, and the pre-use safety checks drivers complete. 7. **Record and close out.** For each item that falls short, document it with a photograph and assign a corrective action to the appropriate team member. The checklist also leaves room for any additional control measures you identify.
Using the results
The value of the inspection comes from what you do with the findings. Assigning each defect to a named person turns a list of problems into a set of actions with owners, and the photograph attached to each item removes ambiguity about what was wrong and where. Together, the completed sections give you a current picture of how well traffic is controlled on your site and where the next improvements should be made.
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