Reversing beeper law

People who do not need to be in reversing areas should be kept well clear. Consider employing a trained signaller (a banksman), both to keep the reversing area free of pedestrians and to guide drivers. As most of you know I work for the local council and my car is fitted with a reversing beeper ( beeper cancels if you select reverse twice) there is also a strobe light fitted to the rear and a flashing orange magnetic bar on the roof as my job is to visit all the schools in Cornwall.

Does the law about noise nuisance and vehical horns still exist? Does it include reversing alarms that might be fitted only as a optional feature and not in compliance with any safety requirement? If that were so, it is doubtful there could be any legally recognised good cause. The provisions of paragraph (1)(a) do not apply in respect of the sounding of a reversing alarm when the vehicle to which it is fitted is about to move backwards and its engine is running. I think this is on a par with shouting and blasting horns in truck stops, really ignorant.

It would be worth revisiting your risk assessment (if you have one) that identifies the need for a reversing alarm and see if you can control the risk (and ask yourself how significant or not the risk is) by other means. My advice - try and work with the neighbour to find consensus/compromise. The lorry starts to reverse at the front of my house,down the side and across the rear, with beepers on, for a whole, max, yards, this is a cul-de-sac. I finish work and get to bed approx 3/am, I am woken up for mornings a week.

All our alarms are tested and approved for compliance to EMC legislation. Why Reversing and Warning Alarms? The rear blind spot is a huge problem regardless of vehicle/machine with reversing vehicles now accounting for a quarter of all.

This Standard may also be cited as Australian.