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Winter Service Guidance

The UK Roads Liason Group have developed a number of key guidance documents for winter preparations.  

As of November 29th 2011

The UKRLG has revised the winter content of Well-maintained Highways. This revision is a consolidation of all previous UKRLG winter guidance documents and includes new information on salt spreading capability, salt moisture content and time of spreading.

The revised guidance supersedes the guidance provided in “Winter Service Guidance for Local Authority Practitioners” and “Recommended Precautionary Treatments and Post Treatments including Revised Salt Spread Rates”.
The revised guidance includes the recommendation from the Quarmby Review on the “Resilience of England’s Transport Systems in Winter” to adopt a resilience benchmark of 12 days/48 runs for full pre-season stockholding (Recommendation 2a) which is to be considered good practice This is in addition to the recommendation for a 6-days resilience standard in terms of number of days continuous severe conditions salting on a defined Minimum Winter Network for the overall and core winter periods (Recommendation 2).

It is advised that those local highway authorities that have used the simplified salt spreading rate tables in the previous version of Well-maintained Highways should review the new caveats that have been added, particularly within Appendix H of the guidance.

The revised guidance is available in Section 13 and Appendix H of Well-maintained Highways