The effects of the recent Beast from the East have exposed just how vulnerable some parts of our highways infrastructure can be to extreme weather conditions. Highways claims continue to be a key risk area and having a robust claims management approach to highways claims is essential to any local authority risk manager.

To support risk managers in this regard, Alarm has recently revised its comprehensive highways claims management manual. This provides a practical reference document to risk and insurance professionals who are responsible for managing the performance of the highways claims process.

Following the launch of an update to its code of practice, the UK Roads Liaison Group (UKRLG) published the Well-managed Highway Infrastructure code of practice. Replacing the Well-maintained Highways, Management of Highways Structure and Well-lit Highways codes of practice, this code takes an integrated, risk-based approach to managing highway infrastructure assets.

As a result of this new code of practice, section two, Managing the highways liability risks, of the Alarm highways claims management manual, has been updated and revised to reflect the changes and the adoption of a risk-based approach to managing the risks.

Further revisions are in the pipeline to assist with understanding the revised code and the need to adopt a risk-based approach in managing highway infrastructure to ensure that local authority risk and insurance managers continue to have the best tools available to manage this key risk.

For more information about this and other Alarm guidance documents, please visit: alarm-uk.org.

And for those who have not already done so, please do consider registering for the Alarm Annual Conference, which will be returning to Manchester 24-26 June 2018. This year we will be covering the themes of assurance, business continuity, education, GDPR, governance, housing, insurance and risk and third sector risk management, among many other topics.

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