Contents

  • Cover
  • Front matter
  • Introduction
  • Identifying and managing risk
    • Risk overview
    • Working smart and efficiently
    • Starting the job – be prepared
    • The job is not finished until it is signed-off
  • Basics
    • Roading terms
    • Basics about soil
  • Good construction
    • A well-constructed road
    • A well-constructed landing
  • Earthworks
    • The right machine for the task
    • Clearing and stripping
    • Cut and side cast construction
    • Cut and bench fill construction
    • Full bench construction with end-haul
    • Earthworks compaction
    • Landing construction
    • Forming road corners and in-bends
    • Final grading before metalling
    • Stabilising cut/fill slopes
  • Water control
    • Water control overview
    • Ditches
    • Road drainage culverts
    • Berms and cut-outs
    • Flumes
    • Silt traps and soak holes
    • Silt fences
    • Single culvert river crossings
    • Ford crossings
    • Bridges
  • Applying aggregate (metalling)
  • Repairs and maintenance
    • R&M overview
    • R&M common to new construction
    • R&M of road formation
    • R&M during harvesting operations
    • R&M of river crossings
  • Assisting loggers and harvesting rehab
    • Installing deadmen
    • Installing debris traps
    • Harvesting track rehabilitation (rehab)
    • Harvesting track rehabilitation – cut-outs
    • Landing rehab
  • Want to learn more?
  • Glossary

NZ Forest Road Engineering Manual: Operators Guide

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  2. Identifying and managing risk ›
  3. Working smart and efficiently
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Working smart and efficiently

Working smart and efficiently gives the best results. A great road generally means more work for the business. Also, your job satisfaction and skill levels will go up too. What is the most efficient, safe and effective way to do the job?

Table 1: 5 steps to a top quality job
1. Plan it out, and start prepared
2. Do the job well
3. Monitor or check that things are going according to plan. If not, revise
4. Review to see if anything could be done better
5. Sign-off the job
Step 1: Plan
• Use the ‘Starting the job’ checklist
• Answer questions including:
- What will the end result look like?
- Where are the job’s hard parts?
- What can we do to manage water?
- Which direction are the loaded trucks going to be going?
- Where to put stumps, slash, and topsoil?
Step 2: Do the job well
• Focus on things including:
- Moving the least amount of material, the least distance
- Know each machine’s strengths and weaknesses
- Work machines together if their combined effort gives the best effect
- Make the best available use of materials
- Make the job fit for purpose
- Communicate and work as a team
Step 3: Continually check it’s going to plan
• Keep to the plan unless there is a reason to change:
- Does some machinery need to go to another urgent job?
- Are the soils better or worse than expected?
- Is construction easier or trickier than expected?
Steps 4 & 5: Review and sign-off
• Use the job sign-off checklist
• Answer questions including:
- What was done well, or what could have been done better?
- Did everyone work well as a team?
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