The traffic marshal’s main role is to ensure the safety of vehicles and pedestrian traffic on the client’s site and the general public. The traffic marshal uses the correct hand signals and equipment to hold traffic, coordinate movements and communicate with personnel through radios. They facilitate the client in providing the correct health and safety standards to the site. They assist and guide the delivery drivers in their duties of reversing and unloading in the safest way.
It is a public facing and a responsible role where the traffic marshal must:
- Maintain security surveillance, visitors log book and record deliveries
- Facilitate vehicles into and out of the site entrance
- Preserve pedestrian and traffic routes
- Managing and ensuring the safe movement of traffic in and around the site
- Ensuring visitors to site are wearing appropriate safety uniform at all times
- Monitor all visitors to the site and ensure they are authorised to enter
- Other ad-hoc requests