The Red Book
Thankfully, there is a slightly more concise version of the Traffic Signs Manual available, known as the red book.
The red book details the statutory requirements for signing, lighting, and guarding at street works and road works.
This is the core reference manual for utility companies, local authorities, street work contractors and others whose day-to-day business involves street works.
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Traffic Signs Manual
The Department for Transport’s Traffic Signs Manual provides an extremely detailed, eight-chapter guide for traffic signs and management.
The Chapter 8 guidelines are broken down into three parts – Design, Operations and Update.
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Chapter 8, Part 1: Design
Chapter 8, Part 1 is a comprehensive guide for those responsible for the design of temporary traffic management arrangements.
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Chapter 8, Part 2: Operations
Chapter 8, Part 2 is a comprehensive guide for those responsible for the planning and managing of, and participation in, operations to implement, maintain and remove temporary traffic management arrangements.
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Chapter 8, Part 3: Update
Chapter 8, Part 3 provides information on changes to the methods used to prescribe traffic signs in the 2016 Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions.
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