Clear - Keeping Scotland’s traffic moving

Joint Outcome

To minimise the impact of incidents on road users and the economy through an integrated, co-ordinated approach to safe partnership working.

Joint Responsibilities

• ensure due regard for personal safety and the safety of others throughout the co-ordination of the incident response
• co-operate, co-ordinate and collaborate to ensure effective and efficient partnership working between responders
• support other responders in achieving their objectives, ultimately contributing to timely carriageway re-opening
• establish effective leadership from each responders’ scene leader to
  co-ordinate the incident response
• warn and inform with regular updates to control rooms on:
  • incident management progress
  • traffic management measures
  • estimating accurate times for carriageway re-opening
  • off network issues
• participate in timely debriefing with handover of control and scene transfer to appropriate partner responder
• identify, agree and allocate time bound actions to address emerging issues
• execute allocated actions

Roles and Responsibilities

The responding organisations’ individual roles and responsibilities are set out in the following pages.