ABSTRACT
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India
Planning and
In this chapter we present some of the issues in highway construction zone safety. Ensuring safety in construction zones for different road users and construction workers is a challenging task and reducing vehicle speeds in such zones is of vital importance. A number of measures are prescribed by various codes of practices and contract specifications to ensure safety in construction zones. A structured audit helps to find the level of compliances achieved by the construction agencies from the provisions of codal practices and contract specifications. There are not many standard procedures available in the literature that suggest the way an audit should be conducted. We present a systematic method to conduct a safety audit in a construction zone for the construction phase only, and illustrate its application with the help of a case study.
