Safety isn't a slogan. It's the whole job.
Traffic control is the safety layer between your work and the road. We run it like the life-or-death layer that it is — ticketed crew, current plans, maintained gear, documented controls.
If it can't be done safely, it doesn't get done.
Our safety commitment is not a poster on the smoko-room wall. It is a standing authority given to every crew member to stop work the moment something is not right — no questions, no push-back, no retaliation. That authority is real because the moment you soften it, safety becomes optional. We do not accept optional.
Every site, every shift, is run under a documented SWMS, verified with a JSA, opened with a pre-start, and audited by a supervisor. We measure ourselves on lost-time incidents, near-miss reports and corrective-action close-out time. The numbers are reviewed monthly with the leadership team and shared with the crew — because the people on the cones are the ones whose safety is on the line.
Ticketed. Audited. Insured.
What each accreditation actually means for you as the principal contractor or project owner.
TfNSW-accredited (Traffic Control)
Authorises our designers and implementers to work on classified and state roads across NSW. It means a regulator has checked our tickets, our processes and our track record.
SafeWork NSW compliant
We operate under a documented WHS management system that meets the NSW Work Health and Safety Act and SafeWork codes of practice. Your principal contractor obligations cascade cleanly.
AS 1742.3:2019
Every TGS, sign placement and taper we deploy is designed to the current AS 1742.3 standard — so your site survives an audit and your road users survive the site.
$20M Public & Products Liability
High-limit public liability cover for work on NSW roads, including damage to third-party property and bodily injury claims — confirmed in writing before any job starts.
$50M Professional Indemnity
Cover for our TMP and TGS design work. If a plan we signed is ever challenged, you are not left holding the risk on your own PI.
Workers Compensation via icare NSW
Every controller, designer and driver we send is an ATC employee covered by icare NSW workers compensation — no labour-hire gaps, no hidden risk to the principal contractor.
How the safety layer actually runs.
Four documents, four practices — and no cone goes down until all four are ticked.
PPE
Class D/N hi-vis (day/night rated), reinforced safety boots, hard hats, impact gloves, safety glasses, and reflective overpants on night shifts. PPE is issued by ATC and replaced before it fades — no controller rocks up in a faded vest.
SWMS
A Safe Work Method Statement is prepared for every high-risk construction activity on every job. It names the hazards, the controls, the responsible person and the trigger points for stop-work. It is signed by the crew before a cone goes down.
JSA
A Job Safety Analysis is run on first arrival for each shift and whenever conditions change — weather, traffic volume, staging. It is the 'read the site before you start' check that catches the hazards the plan could not predict.
Pre-start briefings
Every crew runs a pre-start before the job kicks off. Scope, roles, comms channel, emergency muster, stop-work authority, and a site-specific risk review. Nobody starts until everybody understands.
Training & tickets
Every controller carries these.
We do not send anyone out without the current units of competency for the job they are on. If a job calls for a ticket we do not hold, we upskill the crew or subcontract to somebody who does — we do not fake it.
- White Card (General Construction Induction)
- Prepare a Work Zone Traffic Management Plan (PWZ) — for designers
- Implement Traffic Control Plans (ITCP) — for on-site implementers
- Traffic Controller (RIIWHS205E) — for controllers
- Provide First Aid (HLTAID011) and CPR (HLTAID009), current within 12 months
- Relevant NSW driver licences (C/MR/HR/HC) for vehicle and plant operators
- Working at Heights where a job requires edge protection or elevated work
- Asbestos awareness where a site risk-register flags ACM
Reported. Reviewed. Closed.
Every near-miss, every first-aid, every plant-damage event is reported to dispatch before the end of the shift. No blame, no drama — just a short factual write-up so we can look at the pattern. We treat a near-miss as a gift, because it tells us where the next real incident was going to happen.
Within one business day the Compliance Officer runs a post- incident review with the supervisor and the crew on scene. We look at the plan, the site conditions, the controls and the human factors. The output is a documented corrective action with a named owner and a due date — and nothing closes until that action is verified in the field.
Patterns and corrective actions feed back into our SWMS library, our induction, and the TMPs we issue. That is the improvement loop. It is slow, unglamorous work — but it is why the numbers keep moving the right direction, and why our clients keep coming back to us for the complex jobs.
Full cover. Real limits.
Certificates of currency available on request before any job starts. If our cover is not right for your prequal, tell us — we will work with you, not bluff.
- Public & Products Liability
- $20,000,000 per occurrence
- Professional Indemnity
- $50,000,000 any one claim
- Workers Compensation
- icare NSW — all employees covered
- Plant & Equipment
- Trucks, TMAs, VMS, trailers — comprehensive
- Motor Vehicle
- Fleet cover, $30M third-party liability
Safety questions we hear a lot.
Straight answers — no corporate soft-edge.
Frequently asked questions
Need our COI or prequal pack?
We'll email certificates of currency, SWMS templates and ticket matrices within the hour.