Road Materials Committee

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Road Materials Committee
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Materials Testing Committee

• TMH 1 Standard Test Methods
• TMH 5 Sampling Methods
• TMH 6 Special Test Method
• Test Precision Limits

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Laboratory Accreditation System

• Road Technology and Civil Engineering STC
• Precision Limits
• Test Methods
• Registration of Testers

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Specifications

• Crushed Stone
• ASPASA Proposals for modifications to COLTO
  requirements
• G4 Gradings

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TRH and TMH documents

• TRH 14 Road Building Materials
• First draft being prepared
• TRH 3 Surface Treatments
• TRH4 Flexible Pavement Design
• TRH12 Pavement Rehabilitation

USER COMMENTSWANTED
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Pavement Management

• Pavement Surveillance data specification
• TMH for Gravel Road evaluation

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Materials Technician Shortage

• Growing Shortage of experienced people
• Few new entrants
• No Technikon courses
• No ECSA registration
• Few large projects for gaining experience
• Lack of appreciation of their role and value
• PROBLEM

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Materials Technician ShortageWhat can we do?

• Industry should lobby for ECSA registration of
  Materials Technicians
• Promote reintroduction of Materials Diploma
• Introduce Materials post-graduate training for
  Technicians

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Materials Technician ShortageWhat can we do?

• Employers must improve the status of existing
  materials technicians by
• clearly acknowledging their role in quality
  assurance
• Ensuring their inputs are recognised and actioned
• Insisting on use of properly qualified and
  trained materials people
• Providing management support for the group.

INDUSTRY ACTION
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