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I'm currently reviewing our risk assesssments and trafffic management policy ahead of an upcoming event where we will have around 350 young people dropped off at our site by their parents, obviously these parents may be driving electric cars.
Do we need a section of either our event documentation, fire risk asessment or traffic management plan that identifieis the risk associated with electric vehicles and how these are mitigated against.
Any advice much appreciated.
Thanks
Nick
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What about ICE vehicles? Your biggest problems will not be with the type of vehicle but coralling the 350 new to site visitors and their parents.
Are you carefully communicating how to access site, where they can park or drop off their off-spring (for some it will be door open and push the child out whilst for others it will be some time checking and hugging) and that you do / do not have vehicle chargers available to the public? For a limited experience just watch the carnage that is the local school run (where these same parents also ignore school request / instruction / road traffic signs & markings). Electric can be a damned nuisance if it runs out of power especially at the gated entrance to a facility and any owner / driver will not be happy to be pushed or towed as it causes damage to the motors. If one vehicle could cause such an obstruction which cannot be readily navigated (e.g. by opening a second barrier) may be worth having a recovery truck on call. You will want to have some bodies in very hi-vis watching the parents don't crash in to each other and guiding the visitors on your premises or at the curtilage. Also don't forget you get to repeat it all over again when the parents come to collect (many will arrive early to get a spot close to the notified exit). Finally don't neglect your neighbours as an additional 350 cars in an area can be a nuisance to local residents and businesses. You might also want to check with the local council as ours has a tendency of sending the traffic wardens out when the local colleges have "open days" last thing you need is an irate parent blaming you for their parking ticket.
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What about ICE vehicles? Your biggest problems will not be with the type of vehicle but coralling the 350 new to site visitors and their parents.
Are you carefully communicating how to access site, where they can park or drop off their off-spring (for some it will be door open and push the child out whilst for others it will be some time checking and hugging) and that you do / do not have vehicle chargers available to the public? For a limited experience just watch the carnage that is the local school run (where these same parents also ignore school request / instruction / road traffic signs & markings). Electric can be a damned nuisance if it runs out of power especially at the gated entrance to a facility and any owner / driver will not be happy to be pushed or towed as it causes damage to the motors. If one vehicle could cause such an obstruction which cannot be readily navigated (e.g. by opening a second barrier) may be worth having a recovery truck on call. You will want to have some bodies in very hi-vis watching the parents don't crash in to each other and guiding the visitors on your premises or at the curtilage. Also don't forget you get to repeat it all over again when the parents come to collect (many will arrive early to get a spot close to the notified exit). Finally don't neglect your neighbours as an additional 350 cars in an area can be a nuisance to local residents and businesses. You might also want to check with the local council as ours has a tendency of sending the traffic wardens out when the local colleges have "open days" last thing you need is an irate parent blaming you for their parking ticket.
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Thanks, yeah this isn't our first rodeo, its a fairly regular occurance and our site team have it pretty nailed down now. Whole area gets lit up like a christmas tree, signage, cones, one way traffic through the site. All works well as long as the parents listen to the instructions they get as they enter and leave the site. Whole team breifed and managed by a couple of traffic coppers so happy with how that all worrks.
Cheers
Nick
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For balance, rather than focus on EV, how are you already dealing with visitor ICE breaking gown, fuel leak, fire risk etc. if they aren’t in place, why target EV? Then hybrids, LPG etc.
are we over complicating what might otherwise be a very low risk issue that could be generically covered for all visiting veh?
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Nick Out of the box, perhaps, but is your site in the middle of nowhere, or should you be discouraging dropping off and picking up the children at the gates? Somewhat bigger numbers but many schools these days have NO DROPPING OFF rules - typically deisignating an exclusion zone - EXCEPT for e.g. the disabled. OK, some of the parents will ignore such rules (which is where the parking wardens can help a bit), but at least the schools are making an effort to assist with environmental objectives + less nuisance to neighbours +++
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