Situational Awareness: Reversing

Reversing vehicles present a significant risk not just to operatives, but to members of the public too.
Through the completion of route or customer risk assessments, the waste sector tries its upmost to work with drivers to eliminate reversing wherever possible. However, there will still be numerous times in a working day where a driver needs to perform a reversing manoeuvre.
Reversing during waste collection presents risks which are typically not present in other workplaces, often because complete control cannot be exercised over the street environment because of factors such as:
The street layout/geography
Street furniture (parked cars, lamp posts, bollards, trees, etc.)
Other vehicles
Pedestrians
The weather - varying weather conditions
This short film aims to share best practice guidance to support those performing or assisting reversing manoeuvres.