The Construction Logistics and Cycle Safety [CLOCS] campaign will next month launch a free web-based software system to allow construction companies to track road safety and compare their performance with peers.
The new CLOCS Manager system will be available free to any company that requests details via the CLOCS website.
Contractors will be able to upload details of any accidents related to their fleets, or the type of “near misses” routinely recorded on construction sites. Drivers will fill in an online form, either at the side of the road if there’s been an accident, or back at base if it was a near miss.
Contractors will be able to see their own data, and how it compares with anonymised, pooled data from other users.
"CLOCS Manager enables people to collate collision and near miss data. If we want people to take road risk seriously, as seriously as on-site accidents, then we need similar levels of recording and logging of incidents and near misses."
Mike Eames, CLOCS
Mike Eames, a spokesman for CLOCS, told CM: “CLOCS Manager enables people to collate collision and near miss data. If we want people to take road risk seriously, as seriously as on-site accidents, then we need similar levels of recording and logging of incidents and near misses. I hope that CLOCS Manager will be widely adopted across the construction industry and become the industry standard tool for collision reporting – you don’t have to be a CLOCS Champion to use the software.”
Eames added: “In construction some people are reporting and some aren’t, although they should do. Where there have been injuries, the police will capture the data via STATS19 accident reporting, people will also report to their insurance companies, and companies will have their own internal systems, but they are all different. With the CLOCS Manager system, you can input the information, then see how your data compares with anonymised averages for the other industry users.”
Eames stresses that the system is not simply a database, but will offer users intelligence and insight on reducing risks. “We can collate all of the incident data everywhere, which means we will be able to put alerts out – for example, if a specific junction is proving dangerous, we can tell people using CLOCS Manager to avoid it. So the point is not just to log the incidents, but to learn from them, right across the country – it’s a learning instrument.”
The CLOCS campaign currently has 40 “champions”, including Mace, Skanska, Lend Lease and Vinci, which commit to embed challenging safety standards across their supply chains nationally. Its requirements cover traffic routing, accident reporting, driver training and fitting safety measures to eliminate vehicles’ blind spots.
CLOCS is now also aligned with the silver standard Fleet Operators Recognition Scheme (FORS), so that any truck or HGV with FORS silver accreditation will meet the standards applying at sites run by Mace or other CLOCS champions.
The CLOCS scheme is project managed by Aecom on behalf of Transport for London.
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