Posted By PST PS Most sites have 10 mph speed limit some 20 depends upon what type of vehicles and if you can totally segregate people from vehicles. 10 mph gives you a chance to get out of the way !! PST

Posted By Jeffrey Watt PS We used to have a limit of 5mph on our production site as it was built on a steep incline and this just felt like a safe speed. Also consider buying a radar gun. Bought a sports one for use with tennis balls that type of thing for £150, measures the speed of trucks just as easily. Saves any arguement with the driver cos you know they were speeding. Do a google for Bushnell radar gun. Use it enough round site and you get to the stage where pointing your phone the right way makes drivers slow down. Like a remote control only more fun. Kind regards Jeff

Posted By The toecap Some good answer here. I always think how will the speed limit be enforced

Posted By anon1234 Edward has mentioned a point I would like to re-emphasise. It is no good setting speed limits and employing radar guns to 'trap' the offenders if the limit is set so low as to: 1) be outside the accurracy of the spedo in the vehicle 2) be below the point at which spedos effectively show a reading that can be read. Have a look at your car next time you are driving and see what is the lowest speed at which you get an accurate read out - I accept it is probably easier to comply with a digital spedo but even these jump in steps etc.

Posted By Gerry Newton PS Sorry misquoted the date earlier it should be the Croners H&S Briefing of the 10th April 2006, Issue No. 321, not the 24th.

Posted By Stupendous Man You certainly need to take account of the type of vehicles being used on site when setting maximum speeds - as others have mentioned, cars, vans, pick-ups and lorries (unless they are equipped with low-ratio or crawler gears) will certainly find it difficult to keep to a 5mph limit and, in personal experience, even a 10 mph limit may prove difficult in some circumstances. Have you ever tried to drive that slow? it's not easy even on a smooth road surface. Separating vehicles and pedestrians should be the priority where possible - after that, I would prefer a rule to keep to a 'reasonable speed for the conditions' and back that up with supervision rather than signs that people can just ignore.

Posted By Alex Ryding This one always niggles me... I think that 10mph should be the limit, look at the spedometer in your car does it have a 5mph increment? How can you set a limit that most people can't know if they're adhering to it? We have a 5mph limit on out site. I aksed the facilities manager how you adhere to the limit and got him to drive me round the car park. Within seconds of being in his car we where in breech of the policy he had set. Alas common sense didn't prevail, "we've bought the signs now".