IS-VL-TR01 / v0.5.1-rc1 / INCLUDES ANSWERS
Blocked pedestrian route
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Complete proposed wording, including answers. Not an approved procedure or training resource.
An explicitly unresolved fictional warehouse condition, not an approved layout. A packing worker stands on a marked walkway facing cartons occupying its full width. The packing-room door is behind the worker. The open adjacent area is stated to be used by lift trucks. Adequate separation has not been established. No vehicle, crossing or protective barrier is depicted.
Same geometry overhead: wall at top, marked walkway beneath, worker to the left of the pallet, pallet across the full walkway, adjacent vehicle-operating space below. A dotted hypothetical departure bends towards that space before the load. It is not an approved route. Dashed outer edge is a cropped view boundary, not a barrier. The transport arrangement remains unresolved.
A diagnostic loading-area doorway, viewed obliquely from its pedestrian approach in the foreground. A four-wheel trolley carrying a carton stands immediately in front of part of the opening. The opening continues behind the trolley and space is visible beside it. Number 1 identifies the doorway, 2 the trolley and 3 the foreground pedestrian approach. These numbers identify objects and areas, not a movement sequence. No dimensions or suitable pedestrian route are established. Vehicle movements beyond the doorway, local instructions and authority to move the trolley are unknown. No protective arrangement, safe waiting point or alternative route is shown.
01 / ENCOUNTER
The route is blocked.
What changes next?
Fictional assumptions and limits
The load is assumed stable. No vehicle is currently approaching and no emergency is depicted. You are an adult packing worker, not authorised to move pallet loads, operate lift trucks or direct vehicles.
No alternative pedestrian route is known to you. Remain in a suitable place and use your workplace's reporting arrangements. This drawing does not identify a suitable waiting place, validate a return journey or prescribe a contact method.
The drawing does not establish that the pedestrian/vehicle interface is adequate. Markings alone do not prove adequate separation. These assumptions, the worker position, door and proposed response all need competent human review.
02 / NOTICE
What can the picture tell you?
Point to the problem. What would you need to know before changing your route?
Point, speak, sign or write. Communication support is welcome; writing is optional.
Make an optional note
Optional reflection may be spoken, signed, pointed or written.
Facilitator prompt — no answer yet
Ask what the learner can see and what remains unknown. Accept their own explanation before showing a route overlay or suggesting an answer. For later discussion, a packing-room phone is an illustrative reporting example only if that contact point and any journey to it have been confirmed suitable locally. It is not the required or universal answer. Ask how the learner would establish a suitable place and the reporting arrangements; do not treat the drawn worker position as verified.
03 / DECIDE
What would you do?
- Routine situation; no emergency.
- You are not authorised to enter the vehicle area or move the load.
- No alternative route is known. Use your workplace's arrangements.
The pictured position is not a verified suitable place. These are unapproved assumptions, not a universal procedure.
04 / EXPLAIN
Fitting through is not enough.
What is there
What could change
Same worker. Same load. The dotted line is a hypothetical departure into vehicle-operating space — NOT an approved route.
1 / 4 · Observed
The walkway is blocked.
The load blocks the marked walkway.
No suitable waiting point is identified in this picture.
Your chosen response
Remain in a suitable place and report the blocked route using your workplace's arrangements.
Report using your workplace's arrangements.
Do not enter the vehicle-operating area or attempt to move the load without appropriate authorisation. Remain in a suitable place and report the blocked route using your workplace's arrangements.
All explanation notes and emergency distinction
Observed: The load blocks the marked walkway.
Potential exposure: Going around it could put you where lift trucks move, creating a risk of being struck or trapped.
Unverified: Room to pass, floor markings or permission alone do not establish a suitable route. Separation, access and instructions need checking.
Action in this example: Remain in a suitable place and report through your workplace arrangements. Authorisation alone does not make access or load movement suitable; applicable controls, instructions, training and equipment still matter.
This is routine obstruction reporting, not an emergency procedure. If serious and imminent danger arises, use the site's arrangements for that danger. Do not wait for routine reporting permission before getting out of immediate danger. The exact wording and arrangements require competent review.
Feedback on the other responses
Go around the load through the vehicle area when no truck is visible.
A clear view is not a suitable route. A truck could move into the area while you are there. Room to fit past the load does not tell you whether people and vehicles are kept apart.
Move the pallet yourself to clear the walkway.
Moving the load is outside your stated role. You are not authorised to move pallet loads. That task needs people with the right training, equipment and authority. Do not take it on just because the route is blocked.
05 / TRANSFER
A different workplace.
What matters here?
Trolley in the approach.
Is the remaining access suitable? You do not know.
“There’s plenty of room. Just go.”
Local reporting arrangements: not given. A colleague's confidence is the only information you have.
Full scenario and limits
A trolley narrows the pedestrian approach to a loading-area doorway. You do not know whether the remaining route is suitable.
A colleague's confidence is the only information you have. This workplace's reporting arrangements have not been given.
No approved route, clearance or authority to move the trolley is established. This is a diagnostic scene.
Compare your reasoning
Your attempt: Keep clear of the uncertain vehicle interface and ask the local responsible person to clarify the arrangements.
Your reason: You need to establish pedestrian access, vehicle movements and the instructions that apply here.
Your action seeks the missing local arrangements. Your reason identifies the information needed.
This is evidence of a response attempt, not proof of understanding or workplace competence.
Who resolves a blocked route? Where can you contact them without vehicle exposure? What if the instructions are unclear?
What needs establishing?
What needs establishing?
- Whether pedestrian access is suitable, how vehicles interact with it, and which instructions apply.
- Who can clarify the arrangements and deal with the obstruction within their role.
- What you can do without entering an uncertain vehicle interface while seeking clarification.
A colleague's confidence is not enough. Neither is assuming that every narrowing has the same answer.
Apply it locally
Optional reflection may be spoken, signed, pointed or written.
No competence, safe system of work or technical approval has been established.
Facilitated alternative and rubric
A facilitator records the learner’s actual spoken, signed, pointed or other accessible response before feedback, plus ratings for changed exposure, action/explanation, role/limits and use of local arrangements. For each: 0 unsafe/absent, 1 partial, 2 sound explanation. A zero is still an attempt requiring corrective discussion; these ratings do not establish competence. A learner acknowledgement alone is insufficient.
Feedback for every action-and-reason pair
Use the gap because the colleague says there is room. — Being able to fit through is enough.
Compare your reasoning
Your attempt: Use the gap because the colleague says there is room.
Your reason: Being able to fit through is enough.
That action relies on uncertain access or authority; it could introduce further exposure. Physical fit alone does not establish suitable pedestrian access.
This is evidence of a response attempt, not proof of understanding or workplace competence.
Use the gap because the colleague says there is room. — You need to establish pedestrian access, vehicle movements and the instructions that apply here.
Compare your reasoning
Your attempt: Use the gap because the colleague says there is room.
Your reason: You need to establish pedestrian access, vehicle movements and the instructions that apply here.
That action relies on uncertain access or authority; it could introduce further exposure. Your reason identifies the information needed.
This is evidence of a response attempt, not proof of understanding or workplace competence.
Use the gap because the colleague says there is room. — Every narrowed pedestrian route must be treated as unusable.
Compare your reasoning
Your attempt: Use the gap because the colleague says there is room.
Your reason: Every narrowed pedestrian route must be treated as unusable.
That action relies on uncertain access or authority; it could introduce further exposure. A narrowed route is not automatically unusable; its suitability depends on the actual arrangements.
This is evidence of a response attempt, not proof of understanding or workplace competence.
Keep clear of the uncertain vehicle interface and ask the local responsible person to clarify the arrangements. — Being able to fit through is enough.
Compare your reasoning
Your attempt: Keep clear of the uncertain vehicle interface and ask the local responsible person to clarify the arrangements.
Your reason: Being able to fit through is enough.
Your action seeks the missing local arrangements. Physical fit alone does not establish suitable pedestrian access.
This is evidence of a response attempt, not proof of understanding or workplace competence.
Keep clear of the uncertain vehicle interface and ask the local responsible person to clarify the arrangements. — You need to establish pedestrian access, vehicle movements and the instructions that apply here.
Compare your reasoning
Your attempt: Keep clear of the uncertain vehicle interface and ask the local responsible person to clarify the arrangements.
Your reason: You need to establish pedestrian access, vehicle movements and the instructions that apply here.
Your action seeks the missing local arrangements. Your reason identifies the information needed.
This is evidence of a response attempt, not proof of understanding or workplace competence.
Keep clear of the uncertain vehicle interface and ask the local responsible person to clarify the arrangements. — Every narrowed pedestrian route must be treated as unusable.
Compare your reasoning
Your attempt: Keep clear of the uncertain vehicle interface and ask the local responsible person to clarify the arrangements.
Your reason: Every narrowed pedestrian route must be treated as unusable.
Your action seeks the missing local arrangements. A narrowed route is not automatically unusable; its suitability depends on the actual arrangements.
This is evidence of a response attempt, not proof of understanding or workplace competence.
Move the trolley, although your authority and the effects are unknown. — Being able to fit through is enough.
Compare your reasoning
Your attempt: Move the trolley, although your authority and the effects are unknown.
Your reason: Being able to fit through is enough.
That action relies on uncertain access or authority; it could introduce further exposure. Physical fit alone does not establish suitable pedestrian access.
This is evidence of a response attempt, not proof of understanding or workplace competence.
Move the trolley, although your authority and the effects are unknown. — You need to establish pedestrian access, vehicle movements and the instructions that apply here.
Compare your reasoning
Your attempt: Move the trolley, although your authority and the effects are unknown.
Your reason: You need to establish pedestrian access, vehicle movements and the instructions that apply here.
That action relies on uncertain access or authority; it could introduce further exposure. Your reason identifies the information needed.
This is evidence of a response attempt, not proof of understanding or workplace competence.
Move the trolley, although your authority and the effects are unknown. — Every narrowed pedestrian route must be treated as unusable.
Compare your reasoning
Your attempt: Move the trolley, although your authority and the effects are unknown.
Your reason: Every narrowed pedestrian route must be treated as unusable.
That action relies on uncertain access or authority; it could introduce further exposure. A narrowed route is not automatically unusable; its suitability depends on the actual arrangements.
This is evidence of a response attempt, not proof of understanding or workplace competence.