Codes of practice & publications

Competence and safety on road projects are essential. Working on the road network can be hazardous and the RSTA encourages good working practice that reduces the risk to workers and drivers.

249 documents

Pothole Solution – A Guidance Note – Road surface Treatments Association
15 January 2026
Greener Roads Ahead – Cardiff September 2025
6 October 2025
RSTA Renew Magazine Autumn 2025
8 September 2025
Decarbonisation of Road Surfacing Seminar – Stafford 2024 Presentations
25 April 2025
RSTA Edition 2 Carbon Guidance April 2025
10 April 2025
The Case for Surface Dressing – Magazine Article January 2024 (Quarry Magazine)
16 January 2024
RSTA-ADEPT-Microsurfacing-TTM-Signing-Guidance-August-2023
5 January 2024
The Case for Surface Dressing RSTA/REA 2023 (Video) (Carbon Emissions)
23 November 2023
2023 02 RSTA Safety Alert – Boiler Safety
16 October 2023
2023 – 01 RSTA Safety Alert – Safe Usage of Gas
16 October 2023
Decarbonisation of Road Surfacing Technical Training Day 2023 Reading
13 September 2023
The Case For Surface Dressing – RSTA/REA 2023
11 July 2023
RSTA ADEPT Surface Dressing Codes of Practice
29 June 2023
Transport Scotland: An Approach to Cold Recycling of Bitumen and Tar Bound Roads
8 June 2023
RSTA Carbon Emissions for Road Surface and other Maintenance Treatments Report and Guidance January 2024
13 April 2023
RSTA 2023 Conference Agenda & Speakers
23 January 2023
Road Note 39
21 September 2022
ASI Case Study, Blackpool, Yeadon Way
2 September 2022
ASI Case Study, A50
2 September 2022
ASI Case Study, M40
2 September 2022
ASI Case Study, Northamptonshire County Council
2 September 2022
2022-01 SAFETY ALERT – SHOOTING AT ROAD SURFACING CREW
15 August 2022
The Importance of Interlayer Bonding in Pavement Construction – Webinar 2021
9 August 2022
Creating a meeting in Outlook from an email
12 July 2022
12. SCOTS 2022 Road Recycling
4 July 2022
11. SCOTS 2022 Geosynthetics
4 July 2022
10. SCOTS 2022 IHE
4 July 2022
9. SCOTS 2022 Asphalt Preservation
4 July 2022
8. SCOTS 2022 Grouted Macadams
4 July 2022
7. SCOTS 2022 Benefits of Membership
4 July 2022
6. SCOTS 2022 Slurry Microsurfacing
4 July 2022
5. SCOTS 2022 Retexturing
4 July 2022
4. SCOTS 2022 Surface Dressing
4 July 2022
3. SCOTS 2022 Innovative Patching
4 July 2022
3. SCOTS 2022 Innovative Patching Systems
4 July 2022
2. SCOTS 2022 HFS
4 July 2022
1. SCOTS 2022 Cost Planning For Sustainability
4 July 2022
Renew Magazine – Spring 2022
4 April 2022
Membership Form Dec 2021
24 December 2021
Renew Issue 12 December 2021
17 December 2021
2021-09 Safety Alert – Incursion by third-party vehicle into a lane closure
28 July 2021
JCB 3XC Exploding Airbag incident
23 July 2021
2021-08 SAFETY ALERT – TRIP LEADS TO BROKEN HAND
19 July 2021
RSTA Membership application v.2021
16 July 2021
HEi258 – Highways England for Information Alert – Fractured ankle injury
13 July 2021
Surface Dressing East Riding November 2021
12 July 2021
RSTA Training 2021
8 July 2021
2021-06 Safety Alert – Bitumen Boil Over
29 June 2021
Safety Alert – Fatality of an Independent Connections Provider Operative
16 June 2021
HEi246 – Highways England for Information Alert – Road Traffic Incident
8 June 2021
2021-04 Finger Injury
7 June 2021
2021-05 Incident at Level Crossing
7 June 2021
2021-03 RSTA Alert SHEQ ALERT-Electrical Fire_Redacted
7 June 2021
COVID19-HSC-Safe-Operating-Procedures-Version-5-Jan-2021
23 March 2021
2021-02 HSE Safety Alert – Failure of a road tanker pressure relief valve – March 2021
9 March 2021
NHSS 13 based on ISO 9001 (2015) – Issue 5 – Published October 2022
5 March 2021
Roadtechs Case Study, Binley Road, Coventry
16 February 2021
Roadtechs Case Study, A45, Coventry
16 February 2021
Roadtechs Case Study, Reclamite, A22 East Sussex
16 February 2021
2021 01 Hot Box Incident
18 January 2021
2020-07-Operative Broken Ankle
6 January 2021
2020-06-Lorry Fire
6 January 2021
2020-05 High Voltage Power Lines
6 January 2021
2020-03 Telhandler
6 January 2021
2020-02 Lorry Mounted Crane Failure
6 January 2021
2020-01 Hopper Entry Near Miss
6 January 2021
2019 – 01 Phoenix Chipping Spreader MK10 Seat Safety Pressure Switch
6 January 2021
2018 – 15 Motorists Reminded to Respect Road Closure
6 January 2021
2018 – 14 Giant Hogweed
6 January 2021
2018 – 13 Incident M6 J26 07.06.18
6 January 2021
2018 – 12 Rollaway Vehicles
6 January 2021
2018 – 11 Delivery Driver Fell Whilst Exiting Vehicle
6 January 2021
2018 – 10 Temporary Works – Excavation Collapse
6 January 2021
2018 – 09 High Potential Incident
6 January 2021
2018 – 08 Broken Toe
6 January 2021
2018 – 07 Fuel Pipes to Boilers & Lances
6 January 2021
2018 – 06 Razor Blades Attached to Traffic Management Signs
6 January 2021
2018 – 05 HGV Vehicle heading towards site with intent to enter the road closure
6 January 2021
2018 – 04 Serious Event – Hydraulic Cylinder Failure
6 January 2021
2018 – 03 Crush Injury to Mechanics Hand Whilst Repairing a Hopper – Lost Time Injury
6 January 2021
2018 – 02 Hornet Insect
6 January 2021
2018 – 01 Overturned Hotbox
6 January 2021
2017-01 Safety Alert Emulsion Spill
6 January 2021
2016-02-burn-to-operative-from-flame-gun-resulted-in-an-over-7-day-riddor
6 January 2021
2016-01 Articulated Tipper Flipped
6 January 2021
28-2015 Bitumen Emulsion Spill
6 January 2021
27-2015 Carriageway Incursion
6 January 2021
26-2015 Transporting Mixers
6 January 2021
25-2015 Fatal Injury Involving Vacuum Excavator
6 January 2021
24-2015 Bitumen Emulsion Incident
6 January 2021
23-2015 Taking Materials from the Back of a Moving Vehicle
6 January 2021
22-2015 Overhead Electric Cables and Tipper Lorry
6 January 2021
21-2015 Fire in a Skip
6 January 2021
20-2015 Operative Injured by Reversing Dumper
6 January 2021
19-2015 Outdoor Safety & Health Supplementry Information
6 January 2021
18-2015 Back Strain
6 January 2021
17-2015 Traffic Management Incident
6 January 2021
16-2015 350 Planer Overturned – Potential to Cause Serious Injury
6 January 2021
15-2015 Third Party Lorry Driver Falls from Vehicle
6 January 2021
14-2015 Articulated Truck Tip-over
6 January 2021
13-2015 High Level of Injury Threat from Loading Shovel Turnover
6 January 2021
12-2015 Fatal Incident – Contract Haulier
6 January 2021
11-2015 Driver Jailed over Death after Texting at the Wheel
6 January 2021
10-2015 Use of Stihl Saws and Dust Suppression
6 January 2021
09-2015 Traffic Management
6 January 2021
08-2015 Lone Working
6 January 2021
07-2015 Music Headphones
6 January 2021
06-2015 Serious Mixer Injury
6 January 2021
05-2015 Articulated Lorry Overturn Whilst Delivering Sand
6 January 2021
04-2015 Low Loader Significant Near Miss
6 January 2021
03-2015 Sweeper Incident
6 January 2021
02-2015 Crane Incident
6 January 2021
01-2015 Hydraulic Injection Injury
6 January 2021
Eurobitume – Bitumen Burns – July 2014
6 January 2021
Eurobitume – Bitumen Burns – March 2014
6 January 2021
Health & Safety Alert – Tipper Overturn
6 January 2021
Safety in Vehicle Cabs
6 January 2021
Safe Use of Mobile Phones
6 January 2021
How to avoid slip trip and fall accidents
6 January 2021
Bitumen Emulsion – Safe Working Procedures
6 January 2021
Tencate: A24 Leatherhead, Surrey
4 January 2021
Bituchem Group: Fortseal
4 January 2021
Asphalt Reinforcement Services: 50,000m2 Gridseal installed in Heathrow car park
4 January 2021
Hitex awarded BBA HAPAS Certificate for Texband
4 January 2021
HaTelit: London Luton Airport 1988 & 1992
4 January 2021
HaTelit: Successful use on the German Highway 13 Dresden-Berlin
4 January 2021
HaTelit: Reinstatement of Rosenstrasse in Ochtrup, Germany
4 January 2021
A87 Varragill to Portree Phase 3
4 January 2021
ABG Asphalt reinforcemnent Heathrow Airport
4 January 2021
Asphalt Reinforcement Services: Paving repairs reinforced with software
4 January 2021
Nu-Phalt Case Study: Silverstone
4 January 2021
Nu-Phalt Case Study: Falkirk Council
4 January 2021
Nu-Phalt Case Study: Dorset Council
4 January 2021
Nu-Phalt Case Study: Croydon Council
4 January 2021
Stirling Lloyd Polychem: Safetrack High Friction Surfacing Noise Reduction Trial
4 January 2021
Nu-Phalt Case Study: Northamptonshire Council
4 January 2021
TRL Geosynthetics Report 2006
4 January 2021
Bituchem FortSeal Carriageway Preservation System
4 January 2021
JPCS – Rejuvophalt Case Study – Cheshire CC
4 January 2021
Velocity Patching Dorset Case Study
4 January 2021
ABG Asphalt Reinforcement Fortifix Chelker Reservoir Skipton
4 January 2021
ABG Asphalt Reinforcement Trial Rotaflex
4 January 2021
Highways magazine article – Ironwork Code of Practice July 2017
4 January 2021
Linking workforce competency to good asset management January 2017
4 January 2021
High Friction Surfacing Aug/Sept 2016
4 January 2021
Asset Management June 2016
4 January 2021
Innovation is Key April 2016
4 January 2021
Asphalt Preservation Systems April 2015
4 January 2021
Innovative Patching Products April 2015
4 January 2021
In-situ Road Recycling March 2015
4 January 2021
Retexturing Jan Feb 2015
4 January 2021
Innovative Patch Repair Systems October 2014
4 January 2021
Crack Sealing and Joint Repairs July 2014
4 January 2021
Geosynthetics & Steel Meshes May 2014
4 January 2021
Grouted Macadam March 2014
4 January 2021
Slurry Surfacing November 2013
4 January 2021
High Friction Surfacing October 2013
4 January 2021
Surface Dressing July 2013
4 January 2021
RSTA Viewpoint June 2013
4 January 2021
Renew, Issue 10 Spring 2020
4 January 2021
Renew, Issue 9, Spring 2019
4 January 2021
Renew, Issue 8, Spring 2018
4 January 2021
Renew, Issue 7, Autumn 2017
4 January 2021
Renew, Issue 6, Spring 2017
4 January 2021
Renew, issue 5, Autumn 2016
4 January 2021
Renew, Issue 4, Spring 2016
4 January 2021
Renew, Issue 3, Autumn 2015
4 January 2021
Renew, Issue 2, Spring 2015
4 January 2021
Renew, Issue 1, Autumn 2014
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 12 – Spring 2014
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 11 – Winter 2013
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 10 – Autumn 2013
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 9 – Spring 2013
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 8 – Winter 2012
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 7 – Summer 2012
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 6 – Spring 2012
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 5 – Winter 2011
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 4 – Autumn 2011
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 3 – Spring 2011
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 2 – Autumn 2010
4 January 2021
RSTA E-news – Issue 1 – Spring 2010
4 January 2021
IHE Technical Bulletin July 2018 – Crack and Joint Repair Systems
4 January 2021
IHE Technical Bulletin May 2018 – Asphalt Preservation Systems
4 January 2021
IHE Technical Bulletin March 2018 – Retexturing
4 January 2021
IHE Technical Bulletin January 2018 – Surface Dressing
4 January 2021
IHE Technical Bulletin Oct 17 – Slurry Surfacing
4 January 2021
IHE Technical Bulletin August 2017 – Geosynthetics & Steel Meshes
4 January 2021
IHE Technical Bulletin June 2017 – Code of Practice for Ironwork
4 January 2021
IHE Technical Bulletin April 2017 – High Friction Surfacing
4 January 2021
IHE Technical Bulletin February 2017 – Sign Posting Standards and Guidance
4 January 2021
Guidance on the consistent installation of HFS
4 January 2021
TRRL Lab Report 693
4 January 2021
TRRL Lab Report 553
4 January 2021
TRL trials of high friction surfaces – Nicholls 1998
4 January 2021
The location and treatment of urban skidding hazard sites
4 January 2021
The GLC’s anti-skid surfacing programme
4 January 2021
Supplementary report 340 – TRL Research into Skid Resistance 1927-77
4 January 2021
Skid Resistance and Accident Prevention in London
4 January 2021
RRL Report LR 381 – 1968 Sandy Trial of Epoxy and Bauxite
4 January 2021
RRL Report LR 350 – Synthetic Aggs with high PSV
4 January 2021
RRL Report LR 84 – Calcined Bauxite
4 January 2021
Road Aggregates and Skidding
4 January 2021
High Skid Resistant Surfaces
4 January 2021
Richard Ellis Paper on HFS
4 January 2021
High Friction Surfacing. National Centre for Asphalt technology (NCAT) Alabama USA January 2005
4 January 2021
Guidance Notes on Treatment of Melted Surface Dressed Roads 2109
4 January 2021
Guidance on Low Risk Waste Activities – January 2015
4 January 2021
RSDA Advice Note on Recycling Post Sweep Chippings
4 January 2021
ALARM Survey 2017
4 January 2021
Maintaining Strategic Roads – Parliament 2014
4 January 2021
The importance of road maintenance 2014 world road association publication
4 January 2021
A summary of all standards, specifications and guidance documents affecting the road surface treatments industry – August 2015
4 January 2021
RSTA Conference Report 2018
4 January 2021
RSTA Conference Report 2017
4 January 2021
RSTA Conference Report 2016
4 January 2021
RSTA Conference Report 2015
4 January 2021
RSTA Conference Report 2014
4 January 2021
RSTA Conference Report 2013
4 January 2021
RSTA Conference Report 2008
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT Code of Practice for Slurry Surfacing inc Microsurfacing (2018)
4 January 2021
RSTA Codes of Practice for Crack Sealing Joint Repair Systems for Road Surfaces (2013)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT Code of Practice for Retexturing (2022)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT Code of Practice for In-Situ Structural Road Recycling (2012)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT Code of Practice – Asphalt Surface Course Preservation Treatments (2020)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT Code of Practice for High Friction Surfacing (2017)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT Geosynthetics and Steel Meshes Code of Practice (2023)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT Codes of Practice for Innovative Patching Products (2015)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT Code of Practice for Patching Systems (2024)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT GUIDANCE ON THE USE OF NON-WOVEN FABRICS IN SURFACE DRESSING (2014)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT Code of Practice for Grouted Macadam (2021)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT HE Code of Practice for Ironwork Systems Installation and refurbishment (2017)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT Service Life document 2nd Edition (2017)
4 January 2021
RSTA ADEPT Guidance on Temporary Traffic Management at Surface Dressing Sites (2021)
4 January 2021
RSTA/Xais Statistical report on Collision Buffer (2020)
4 January 2021
RSTA/Xais Guidance to Template to Skidding Resistance (2021)
4 January 2021
RSTA/Xais Template to Skidding Resistance (2021)
4 January 2021
Highways England Series 900 Bituminous Bound materials (2019) (inc 936)
4 January 2021
RSTA Making the Case Issue 2 – Economic Arguments
4 January 2021
RSTA Making the Case Issue 1 – Road Safety
4 January 2021
RSTA Potholes Vital Statistics 2018
4 January 2021
RSTA in Highways Directory 2016-17
4 January 2021
CE Marking
4 January 2021
RSDA Golden Jubilee Sept 1992
4 January 2021
RSTA 70 Years of Progress
4 January 2021
RSTA Annual Review 2013
4 January 2021
RSTA Brochure
4 January 2021
RSTA Pothole Vital Statistics 2019
4 January 2021
At a glance guide to Surface Treatments
4 January 2021
Road Surface Treatments Handbook
4 January 2021

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