Who must complete this: every worker, supervisor, subcontractor, truck / concrete / delivery driver and accredited traffic controller working on or delivering to the site. This induction supplements the main site induction and covers City of Sydney's approval for vehicles to reverse into the Ada Place driveway, the approved Construction Traffic Management Plan (CTMP, DA Condition 91) and the Construction Noise and Vibration Management Plan (CNVMP, DA Conditions 18 and 19).

How it works: watch the video, read each section and confirm it, then answer 5 questions. You must score 4 out of 5 (80%) or better to submit. If you score less, go back, re-read the section and correct your answers. Sign at the end.

Site: 445-447 Harris Street, Ultimo (includes 46A Ada Place at the rear). Hotel and cafe conversion plus a new boarding house fronting Ada Place. Harris Street is hoarding only (clearway 3.00pm–7.00pm weekdays).

All vehicle access, the reversing driveway and the approved Works Zone are on Ada Place.

Sensitive neighbours: residences at 46 and 48 Ada Place and 439 and 449 Harris Street. Protected street trees: Plane trees at 445 and 449 Harris Street, Kentia palm at 46A Ada Place — nothing stored, parked or refuelled within 2 m of a trunk.

Approved hours (DA Condition 112):
Monday to Friday 7.30am–5.30pm; Saturday 7.30am–3.30pm; no work Sundays or public holidays. Safety inspections only from 7.00am. The hours apply to all noise-generating activity including loading, unloading, transferring tools and vehicles arriving or leaving.

Trucks must not arrive before 7.30am and must not stage, queue or wait on any public road. Mobile cranes are not delivered before 7.30am without Council approval. Out-of-hours work needs written Council approval before it starts.

City of Sydney has approved vehicles up to 6 metres long to reverse from Ada Place into the site driveway, subject to the eleven conditions below. The CTMP normally requires forward entry and exit — this approval is the specific exception, and it only applies while every condition is met. Breach of any condition = immediate withdrawal of the approval and all loading and unloading moves to the Works Zone.

1. Two accredited traffic controllers, minimum, present for every vehicle entering and exiting. No controllers, no movement.
2. Controllers clearly identifiable and compliant with accreditation requirements (hi-vis, accreditation card on person, stop/slow bat where the TGS requires).
3. Maximum vehicle length 6 metres, bumper to bumper. The 8.8 m medium rigid truck in the CTMP does not qualify.
4. Single manoeuvre in, single manoeuvre out. No three-point turns or repositioning on Ada Place. If it cannot be done in one movement, the vehicle uses the Works Zone.
5. Parking opposite the driveway must not be reserved, coned, signed or obstructed at any time.
6. Once entered, the vehicle must be fully contained within the site boundary — no tailgate, tray or trailer overhanging Ada Place.
7. Tyres cleaned before exit — use the wheel wash / shaker grid. Tracking mud onto the road is a pollution offence.
8. Entry and exit only within DA hours (Condition 112).
9. All movements comply with the approved CTMP — routes, prohibited streets, controller rules, pedestrian priority, TGSs.
10. No staging of vehicles on any road outside the approved Works Zone. Drivers are called in one at a time.
11. Once vehicles can no longer be fully accommodated on site, all loading and unloading moves to the approved Works Zone.

Reversing procedure:

(1) Driver calls ahead; supervisor confirms both controllers are in position.
(2) Approach via Fig Street into Ada Place — not from Quarry Street.
(3) Controller 1 upstream on Ada Place, Controller 2 at the driveway managing the site side and pedestrians, TGS signs in place.
(4) Wait for a natural gap — controllers do not stop road traffic.
(5) Pedestrians first — held only for seconds while the vehicle actually crosses the footpath, never in anticipation.
(6) Reverse in one movement: alarm on, hazard lights on, walking pace, Controller 2 visible in the mirror at all times — if the controller disappears from view, stop.
(7) Fully inside, handbrake on, engine off.
(8) Wheel wash.
(9) Exit forward in one movement under controller direction, depart via Quarry Street to Harris Street.
(10) Supervisor logs the movement.

Vehicles over 6 metres (including the 8.8 m medium rigid truck) load and unload from the approved Works Zone on Ada Place, entering and leaving forward under Traffic Guidance Scheme 2 (partial closure of Ada Place). The Works Zone needs its own Council permit on site. Trucks park in the Works Zone for loading and unloading only. No dog trailers or articulated vehicles on local roads; oversize / over-mass needs one-off Council approval 28 days ahead. Concrete pumps, cranes or plant on the public road need a separate Council permit.

Inbound route (all directions): Wattle Street, William Henry Street, Harris Street, Fig Street, then left into Ada Place. Outbound: Ada Place to Quarry Street, left into Quarry Street, then Harris Street at the signals. Prohibited for construction traffic: Henry Street, Fig Lane, Quarry Lane, and Fig Street north-east bound to Harris Street. No queuing or marshalling on any public road. Keep neighbours' driveway access on Ada Place open at all times.

Traffic controllers: do not stop traffic on the public street to let trucks in or out — wait for a suitable gap; vehicles already on the road have right of way. Pedestrians have right of way on the footpath, not trucks. TGSs must comply with AS 1742.3 and TfNSW Traffic Control at Work Sites; only the approved TGS may be used. The works supervisor implementing the TGS must hold current TfNSW accreditation. Barriers and delineators must be TfNSW approved. If a controller is unsure, the vehicle waits.

Parking and public way: no worker parking on public roads (Central Station is a 15 minute walk; off-street parking at 320 Harris Street). Never obstruct the public way with materials, vehicles, skips or plant — Council can stop the whole site (Condition 125). All loads fully covered before entering the road (Condition 117). Wheel wash for every vehicle (Condition 118). No stockpiles on footpaths; cover dusty stockpiles. Stone kerbs on Harris Street and Ada Place are heritage — no cutting or removal without Council approval. Locate Ausgrid cables before any excavation near the footpath.

Noise: site criterion 58 dB(A) at the nearest residential boundary; above 75 dB(A) Council can impose respite periods. City of Sydney code: background +5 dB from 7.00am to 8.00am, background +10 dB after 8.00am. Piling and concrete pumping are the noisiest activities and are permitted only with the controls in place: quietest suitable plant, no radios or amplified music audible at neighbours, stagger noisy activities, use noisy hand tools inside and away from openings, keep plant well maintained, do not drop material from height (use rubber matting), keep the 1.8 m gap-free boundary fence intact, wear hearing protection.

Vibration limits (DIN 4150-3): dwellings 5 mm/s at 1–10 Hz; commercial 20 mm/s; heritage / sensitive structures 3 mm/s. Indicative safe working distances to structures: small hydraulic hammer 5 m, medium 15 m, large 40 m, vibratory pile driver 8 m, pile boring 4 m, jackhammer 2 m. On this site most of these distances cannot be achieved to the neighbouring walls — plant selection, method and monitoring are controlled by the engineer, not the operator.

Vibration monitoring: ground is silty / sandy clay over shale at about 1.8 m; contiguous or hit-and-miss piling is expected. Before work starts the engineer identifies at-risk properties and whether an alarmed vibration monitor is required during piling and excavation; dilapidation reports (AS 4349.1) are completed on those properties. If the alarm activates or the threshold is exceeded: stop the activity immediately, notify the site supervisor, change the excavator / attachment / method before restarting, and record and report the event to the engineer. Never defeat, move or switch off a monitor — report a damaged or displaced monitor straight away.

Dust and neighbours: water suppression or extraction on all saw cutting and grinding; water sprays during demolition; cover skips and chutes; seal exposed party walls and floors with temporary sheeting; no dry sweeping of silica dust. Adjoining neighbours get at least 48 hours' notice before excavation, shoring, underpinning or high-noise plant (Condition 120). Monthly letter drop to nearby tenants.

Complaints and reporting: if a neighbour raises a concern, be courteous, take their name, number and the issue, do not argue or promise anything, and report it to the site supervisor immediately. Report immediately: any near miss with a vehicle, pedestrian or cyclist; any vibration alarm or damage to a neighbouring property; any contact with underground services or street trees; any Council officer or ranger attending site. Locagroup will remove from site any driver, controller or worker who breaches these conditions.