General rules for the use of protective barriers (fragment)
The protective safety barrier is a road safety device, but it is also a physical obstacle which, if hit by a vehicle, may pose a threat to the health or life of road users.The main purpose of using road safety barriers is to protect the health and life of road users and the safety of persons and structures in the vicinity of the road. Protective barriers may only be used if their absence could have more negative effects on persons in the vehicle and on persons and objects in the hazardous safety barrier area than in the case of barriers. After identifying the presence of hazards on the road and its surroundings that require the use of safeguards, it is necessary. To check the safety barrier possibility of removing, moving or minimizing these hazards by engineering activities (e.g. changes in the location of obstacles, the use of supporting structures absorbing energy or easily tearable during impact, barrier alleviation of slope incli...