Posted By Paul Marshall
Hi, I work for a private Company who specialise in Gully Cleansing for Local Authorities.

My question is this: Does anyone know of any guidence or regulation that allows operatives to ride on a vehicle to carry out this type of activity other than the Road Traffic Act 1988 26. "Holding onto a vehicle to be towed or carried without lawful authority or reasonable cause is an offence"

I understand that this would be considered a high risk activity, and one suggestion is that if we provide a bespoke platform with the operative enclosed in a safety cage we would have reduced the risk to as low as reasonably practible.

Posted By Chris Pope
Pretty sure I've seen something like a platform for travelling and standing and leaning out in HSE literature or lecture for teams putting out and gathering in roadsigns.

Posted By Frank Hallett
Good evening all

Could you please clarify exactly what sort of gullies you refer to Paul? It would help to focus responses more effectively.

My response has assummed that you refer to roadside gulleys.

I believe that the questioned activity is no different in principle to a range of activities that occur from moving vehicles quite legally already - the best known example will be "Cone Dropping & Retrieval" on all types of roads [but mainly fast moving roads with high traffic density] which is carried out from purpose designed vehicles that comply with the relevant RTAs and also PUWER & WaH Regs.

Frank Hallett