Practical Guidance Documents
NEW WINTER SERVICE NATIONAL GUIDANCE FROM OCTOBER 2016
BACKGROUND TO NWSRG PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR WINTER SERVICE
The latest (2016) version of the UK Roads Liaison Group’s national code of good practice for highway maintenance matters, ‘Well-managed Highway Infrastructure’, no longer provides detailed guidance to practitioners regarding the delivery of the winter service.
Instead, and recognising the technical quality of its work and level of expertise residing within the NWSRG, the UK Roads Board, on behalf of the UKRLG, has requested the NWSRG to make its Practical Guide generally available to all practitioners and interested parties, as it is considered to constitute the best way of providing national best practice guidance on these issues.
Background to the Practical Guide is available here
As work in each subject area is completed, a section of the Guide is produced and made available for use by NWSRG Members. The Table below shows the current Status of the current and proposed chapters of the Practical Guide:
Guidance - Publication Dates
| Section | Publication Date (Superseded Version – where applicable) | Publication Date (Current Version) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Foreword and Using the Guide | 2010_11_29 | 2021_03_18 |
| 2 Planning | 2020_05_18 | |
| 3 De-Icer Types | 2019_03_19 | |
| 4 Salt Storage | 2010_11_29 | 2019_03_19 |
| 5 Treatment Methods and Technologies | 2019_03_19 | |
| 6 Spreader Management | 2010_12_02 | 2019_03_19 |
| 7 Decision Making | 2020_11_23 | |
| 8 Precautionary Salt Spread Rates | 2010_12_06 | 2019_03_19 |
| 9 Treatments for Snow and Ice | 2011_01_25 | 2019_03_19 |
| 10 Treatments for Extreme Cold | 2012_01_31 | 2019_03_19 |
| 11 Footways and Cycleways | 2021_03_18 | |
| 12 Weather Forecasting and RWIS | 2020_09_14 | |
| 13 Route Selection and Optimisation | 2020_11_23 |
