Traffic management plan builder

Draft a workplace traffic management plan: the vehicles on site, where people walk, routes and speed, separation controls in order of effectiveness, loading, visitors and review.

Figures checked 5 November 2026. Free to use, no sign-in.

Workplace

Victoria and Western Australia have their own Acts; the tool switches to them.

Vehicles, people and routes

Vehicles and plant used on site

Controls

Adds traffic near the site that the work may affect.

Workplace traffic management plan

Check before you use it

  • Attach a site map showing vehicle routes, walkways, crossings, parking and exclusion zones.
  • If more than one business shares the site, consult, cooperate and coordinate with them on traffic (s 46 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW)).
  • Consult the workers who will be affected, and their health and safety representatives if you have them (s 47 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW)).
  • Replace every [bracketed] item and delete defaults that don’t fit your workplace.
  • Check the current law and guidance from SafeWork NSW before relying on the document.
Business (PCBU)[Business name]
Workplace[Site name and address]
Prepared by[Name and position]
Date prepared[Date]
Next review[Review date]
JurisdictionNew South Wales

Laid out against s 214 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025 (NSW) and s 215 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025 (NSW): whoever manages or controls powered mobile plant must manage the risk of it colliding with any person or thing, must ensure it does not collide with pedestrians or other powered mobile plant, and must fit a warning device where a collision is possible. This is a draft prepared from the details entered. It does not by itself show that your obligations are met: check it against your workplace, consult the people who will use it, and update it when things change.

1. Vehicles and plant on site

  • Forklifts and other industrial lift trucks
  • Trucks and delivery vehicles

2. Where people walk and work

  • [Walkways, crossings, entrances, break areas and work areas near vehicle routes]

3. Vehicle routes and speed

  • [Entry and exit points, one-way routes, parking, turning and reversing areas]

Site speed limit: 10 km/h.

4. Keeping people and vehicles apart

Controls, most effective first (s 36 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025 (NSW)):

  • Eliminate: remove the need for vehicles in pedestrian areas, for example by moving storage or scheduling deliveries outside busy times
  • Isolate: physical barriers or fencing between walkways and vehicle routes; separate pedestrian entrances
  • Engineering: marked crossings with good sight lines, mirrors at blind corners, speed humps, lighting; warning devices on plant
  • Administrative: one-way routes, speed limits, exclusion zones around operating plant, spotters for reversing, trained and licensed operators
  • PPE: high-visibility clothing for everyone in vehicle areas

Powered mobile plant that could collide with people or other plant has a warning device such as a reversing alarm or beacon (s 215(5) of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025 (NSW)).

5. Loading and unloading

  • Drivers stay in the designated driver safety zone during loading
  • No one walks behind a reversing vehicle
  • Wheel chocks or brakes applied before loading starts

6. Visitors, contractors and delivery drivers

[How visitors and drivers are told the site rules, where they park and wait, and who escorts them]

7. Training and supervision

Only trained, competent and, where required, licensed operators use powered mobile plant. Everyone who works on site is told about this plan at induction, and supervisors check the rules are followed.

8. Review

Review this plan after any incident or near miss involving a vehicle or plant, when the layout, vehicles or work change, and at the review date above.

Sign-off

Prepared byName ____________ Signature ____________ Date ________
Approved byName ____________ Signature ____________ Date ________

Draft prepared with a free tool. Tailor it before use. General information, not legal advice.

Highlighted text in [brackets] still needs your input. Nothing you type is saved or sent. General information, not legal advice.

How this works

The plan is laid out against the powered mobile plant rules in r 214 and r 215 of the WHS Regulations (the same numbers in Western Australia) or r 109 and r 110 of Victoria’s OHS Regulations 2017. Controls are listed most effective first, following the hierarchy of controls.

Turn on the construction option to add the principal contractor’s duty for traffic near the site (r 315(c)).

Not included: the site map, traffic guidance schemes for public roads, and road authority permits.

Legal basis

Checked against these sources on 5 November 2026. Spotted a figure that looks wrong? Tell us.

Questions

Is a traffic management plan required by law?

The WHS Regulations don’t require a document called a traffic management plan for most workplaces, but whoever manages or controls powered mobile plant must manage the risk of it hitting people or things (r 214), must ensure it doesn’t collide with pedestrians or other plant (r 215(4)), and must fit a warning device where a collision is possible (r 215(5)). Victoria’s equivalents are r 109 and r 110. A written plan is the usual way to show how you do this.

What is the most effective control?

Keeping people and vehicles apart by design: removing vehicles from pedestrian areas, or physical barriers and separate entrances. Signs, speed limits and high-visibility clothing are lower in the hierarchy of controls and should back up separation, not replace it.

What extra applies on a construction site?

The principal contractor for a construction project must also manage risks from traffic near the site that the work may affect (r 315(c) of the WHS Regulations). Work on or next to a public road usually also needs approval from the road authority. Victoria has no matching regulation; the general duties in the OHS Act apply.

Is anything I type saved?

No. The draft exists only in your browser tab. Copy it, download it as text, or print it before you close the page.

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