3  Safety Inspection Strategy and Safety Inspections

3.1  The Service Provider shall carry out all Safety Inspections in accordance with this Schedule 7 and the Safety Inspection Strategy for the relevant Contract Year.

3.2  The Service Provider shall input the results of all Safety Inspections into the relevant part of the Management Information System in accordance with Part [♦] of the Output Specification.

3.3  No later than four (4) Months prior to the commencement of each Contract Year following the first Contract Year, the Service Provider shall submit to the Authority a revised Safety Inspection Strategy pursuant to the Review Procedure and provide to the Authority a copy of any risk assessments used in the development of each revised Safety Inspection Strategy.

3.4  Subject to the provisions of this Schedule 7, the Service Provider shall ensure that each Safety Inspection Strategy and all Safety Inspections shall comply with the recommendations of the Highways Maintenance Code, the Highways Structures Code and the Highways Lighting Code (as appropriate).

3.5  The Service Provider shall ensure that each Safety Inspection Strategy shall include, in respect of each forthcoming Contract Year:

(a)  the frequency (including the time and date) and location of all Safety Inspections to be carried out in respect of Project Roads provided that such Safety Inspections shall not be carried out any less frequently than as set out in Table 1 (Highway Safety Inspection Frequency) below:

Table 1: Project Road Safety Inspection Frequency

Service Delivery Output Element

Project Road Hierarchy

Category

Frequency of Safety Inspections

Carriageway

Strategic Routes

2

Monthly

 

Main Distributor Routes

3 (a)

Monthly

 

Secondary Distributor Routes

3 (b)

Monthly

 

Link Routes

4 (a)

3 Monthly

 

Local Access Routes

4 (b)

6 Monthly

Footpaths and Footways

Prestige Walking Routes

1 (a)

Monthly

 

Primary Walking Routes

1

Monthly

 

Secondary Walking Routes

2

3 Monthly

 

Link Walking Routes

3

6 Monthly

 

Local Access Walking Routes

4

6 Monthly

Cycle Tracks

Cycle Tracks

B

6 Monthly

 

Cycle Tracks

C

6 Monthly

Privately Maintainable Public Rights of Way

All

All

6 Monthly

(b)  the frequency (including the time and date) and location of Safety Inspections to be undertaken to those Project Network Parts other than Project Roads (over and above the frequency that is required pursuant to the Highway Structures and the Highways Lighting Code);

(c)  the method(s) of each Safety Inspection to be undertaken which shall include, without limitation, the following requirements:

(i)  any Safety Inspection undertaken in relation to Footpaths, Footways and Cycle Tracks shall not be carried out by an inspector from a vehicle;

(ii)  any Safety Inspection undertaken in relation to Carriageways may be carried out by an inspector from a vehicle or otherwise;

(iii)  where Carriageways intersect with Footpaths, Footways and/or Cycle Tracks, Safety Inspections shall not be carried out by an inspector from a vehicle; and

(iv)  how the results of Safety Inspections and actions to be taken following a Safety Inspection are to be recorded on the Management Information System.