Brown Rock Salt/Grit for ice, snow, melting - 23kg Bag

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There are also smart signs on the market, available to buy at low cost, which display warning messages at 50 and below. Is there is enough lighting around your workplace for you and your workers to be able to see and avoid hazards that might be on the ground? The easiest way to find out is to ask your staff. Another way is to shadow your employees for a couple of days, walk the main internal and external routes that they use throughout their working day. It is important to do this both inside and outside of the workplace, as the effect of light changes during the day. If you can't see hazards on the ground you will need to improve the lighting (eg new lights or changing the type of bulb). Wet and decaying leaves It’s crucial to be prepared in the event of snow and icy conditions, particularly if you have private business premises.

To reduce the risk of slips on ice, frost or snow, you need to assess the risk and put in a system to manage it.Customers slip on the outside floor at client premises i.e. the car park, path to the entrance or reception

Routes to large schools are gritting priorities for councils as they know how important keeping them open is both in terms of continuity of teaching for pupils and avoiding costly and disruptive childcare for parents. It's either the headteacher or the local council which makes the decision to close a school. It is not a decision taken lightly and advice from the emergency services will be considered, as will the weather forecast. Reasons to close a school include dangerous road conditions nearby, a shortage of teacher who can safely make it in or problems with vital supplies such as heating or water. Schools appreciate it can be a huge inconvenience to parents but the safety of pupils and teachers are the primary concern. Councils in the UK are responsible for about 225,000 miles of road. It would cost hundreds of millions of extra pounds to grit all roads. Also, many roads are simply too narrow or too steep for gritting lorry to navigate. Instead, councils try to find other solutions like supplying local grit bins for residents, liaising with parish councils and community groups to grit more residential or remote areas and working with farmers to clear rural areas. Grit works by lowering the temperature at which water freezes. It relies on the action of vehicle tyres to be spread over the road, so requires traffic to be effective.Consider covering walkways eg by an arbour high enough for people to walk through, or use an insulating material on smaller areas overnight; Grit generously and evenly. Spread the salt generously and evenly over areas that have a high level of footfall, or busy roads using a Salt Spreader. Special allowance is made for school and other buses - an example of this is that a 40-seater bus is counted as 40 vehicles. This normally happens during prolonged snowfall when the sludge, caused by previous gritting and traffic flow, starts to wash older grit away and so risks the road surface freezing. Rain will also wash away salt. Ahead of a sub-zero night, gritting ideally needs to take place after rain but before freezing as grit spread on ice needs to then be worked into it by moving traffic to make it thaw. The often very small window of opportunity may be missed, or a surprise downpour may take place after a road's been treated so councils will re-run an area if needed. Councils sometimes have to contend with ‘freezing rain' – supercooled rain which falls when the surface temperature is below zero, freezing on impact – which means they may need to re-grit areas.

The Department for Transport carries out regular audits of local authorities to monitor salt levels. There is no law against people clearing pavements or public spaces. Ministers have repeatedly welcomed "public-spiritedness" and said "common sense" and "benefit of the doubt" should always prevail when considering litigation. A court would have to deem someone as having been "wholly incompetent or irresponsible" for another to successfully sue them for injury. Salt bins (grit boxes) or grit piles may be provided for use by the public, on a self-help basis, on roads with light traffic or streets which aren’t usually gritted, as long as the necessary criteria are met.It’s always wise to keep a close eye on the weather forecasts. Rain will soon wash away all the grit before it can make any kind of impact, so be on the lookout for grey clouds before you get to work! Safety doesn’t end at the front door salting time - it takes up to three-and-a-half hours to salt a route, so your journey may start or end on an untreated section of the route Over 2 million tonnes of grit is spread onto the UK roads each year. The majority is spread onto motorways, trunk roads and main roads. Less than a third of other roads are treated. Discourage people from taking shortcuts over grass or dirt which are likely to become slippery when wet. Consider converting existing shortcuts into proper paths.

If you have any questions please call highways customer care. Why is grit used on roads and pedestrian areas? It is also recommended to re-grit the surface in the evening, not only in advance of peak traffic flows as staff and visitors leave for the day, but also to prevent the ice from re-freezing as evening temperatures fall.

Salt can stop ice forming and cause existing ice or snow to melt. It is most effective when it is ground down, but this will take far longer on pedestrian areas than on roads. Section 41(1A) – "a highway authority is under a duty to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that safe passage along a highway is not endangered by snow or ice."