For over 20 years, local authorities and utilities in Scotland have participated in a national coring programme which seeks to measure compliance with aspects of the specification for utility reinstatements. These programmes are undertaken roughly every two years and involve taking core samples from a number of reinstatements to assesses whether those samples comply with the specification. This results in each core sample either passing or failing the checks. Since 2012, the Commissioner has set the expectation that for each utility, 90% of core samples will pass the checks and has issued penalties to organisations which have failed to meet this standard. The Commissioner has recently re-iterated this requirement with the publication of Commissioner Good Practice Guidance no. 2.
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The Commissioner is aware that there was an outage of the Scottish Road Works Register yesterday (16 December 2024). Normal service resumed at around 15:15.
New powers granted to the Scottish Road Works Commissioner by the Transport (Scotland) Act (2019) allow him to carry out inspection of works by both public utilities and councils. Two new Compliance Officers have been appointed to carry out this role and, since the new powers came into effect on 1 April 2024, they have been focussing on compliance with the Safety at Street Works and Road Works Code of Practice at council road works sites.
The Scottish Road Works Commissioner Annual Accounts for period April 2023 to March 2024 have been published.
The Scottish Road Works Commissioner Road Works Monitoring Report for the period April 2023 to March 2024 has been published.
SCOTS, the member organisation representing local authority roads and transport officers has announced a rebranding and new website. The Commissioner works with SCOTS to improve local authority collaboration and is keen to raise awareness of the group.
Joint statement from SRWC and Transport Scotland on Portable Traffic Signal Guidance.
The Scottish Road Works Commissioner has issued penalties totalling £138,000 to seven utility organisations for failing to comply with required standards identified through the National Coring Programme.
The Scottish Road Works Commissioner has today issued a statement regarding the ongoing SGN works on the A9 at Dunkeld.
Posts are now filled. The SRWC is currently seeking to recruit two Compliance Officers to join his team in Edinburgh. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual to work in a fast paced environment with a growing, progressive organisation.