CLOCS-A

Vulnerable Road User Training

(VRU)

Overview

The ‘Construction Logistics and Community Safety Standard – Australia’ (CLOCS-A) was developed for Australian use within the Construction and Logistics industry to bring a heightened level of awareness of community safety. CLOCS-A focusses on increasing a greater safety focus for principal construction companies, their fleets and the transport companies they use. The Vulnerable Road User (VRU) course looks at a range of vulnerable road users that includes:

Pedestrians
Cyclists
eScooter users and
Pedestrians or aged people using walking aids

Large construction projects use Heavy Vehicle transport to bring in materials and remove material for the building of construction projects. They may have their own fleet or they may use transport operators. If the Construction site is CLOCS-A accredited, the Construction company may require the transport companies to be certified to the CLOCS-A Transport Operator standard. This would apply if the Transport Operator is sub-contracted to a specific accredited site. The transport drivers therefore will be required to do the VRU short course. The VRU short course is a safety micro-credential, that focuses on the interaction of vulnerable road users with trucks and especially construction trucks entering or leaving construction sites.

What you Learn

The VRU course looks to create an awareness of, and an acknowledgement of, vulnerable road users and the need to be aware and conscious of those other road users not commonly visible by the driver from the cabin of a Heavy Vehicle.

Course Outline

Section 1

Truck specific Vulnerable Road User fatalities

Specific Construction Industry Fatalities

Section 2

The Safe System approach to safety

Section 3

Pedestrians (Construction Truck Considerations)

Pedestrian hot spots
Pedestrian Behaviour
Adapting driver behaviour

Section 4

Bicycle Riders (Construction Truck Considerations)

Bicycle Riders

Section 5

Motorcycles (Construction Truck Considerations)

Section 6

eScooter (Construction Truck Considerations)

Section 7

Personal motorised mobility devices – Motorised Wheelchairs

Section 8

Traffic Management and Road Construction Crews

Construction Truck Considerations
Road Construction workers and the weather

Section 9

The weather and Vulnerable Road Users

Onsite weather impacts
Construction Truck Cabin and it’s visual limitations
Heavy Vehicles stopping distances

Conclusion

Assessment quiz

Duration: Approximately 1 hour

This pilot Micro Credential program has been developed by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Australia and the CLOCS-A Steering Group. Ownership will pass to the funding client after full IT testing of this course and it’s assessment. Until then copyright to the pilot Micro Credential remains the property of CILT-Australia and can only be used with CILT-Australia’s permission.