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Winter Maintenance:
Communications and
Technology
Mike Hansford
Infrastructure Manager
Dorset County Council
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APSE Service Awards
Best Service Team: Highways, Winter Maintenance &
Street Lighting
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HMEP Peer Review
Key themes :
• Are we Delivering a Value for Money Service?
• Are we Communicating Effectively?
3 day visit
• Critical friends NOT Inspectors
• Team of five, including senior officers and members
• Scope of review determined by authority
• Action plan produced
• Review workshop to monitor progress
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Dorset Highways Communications
• Communications Officer embedded in highways
• Communications strategy
• Making best use of channels available
• Empowering staff
• ‘Campaign’ approach
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Dorset Highways Communications
Communications Plan
• Setting out clear objectives
• Identifying stakeholders
• Promoting two-way communications
• How we communicate different work streams; eg
minor works, major schemes
• Evaluating effectiveness
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Dorsetforyou.com - Travel Dorset
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Gritting maps
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E-newsletter
• Monthly
• Over 13,000
subscribers
• Prompts feedback
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Twitter - @TravelDorset
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Top tweets for winter 2015/16
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Winter service infographic
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Policies & Processes
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Systems Thinking Review
• Community Highways Officers – providing direct link
to parish/town councils, members and the public
• Involving members in the development of key policies
and associated documents
• Intranet (Sharepoint) – discussions and sharing of
key documents with parish and town councils
• Self help – flood wardens (boards/road closures), grit
bins (strategic locations) and dumpy bags salt,
volunteer schemes (sign cleaning/gully clearing)
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Internal Communications
• Corporate Plan - Service Plan – Team Plan –
Individual targets / development (PDRs)
• Staff briefing days
• Management blogs
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Performance Framework
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Outcomes - Performance
• 9% increase in website hits
• 13% reduction in highway defects
• 20% reduction in public enquiries / service demands
• Public liability claims reduced by 40% compared to last five year
average
• NHT survey – customer satisfaction in road condition up 11%
since 2015
• £1.75 million efficiency savings
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Thank you for listening
Mike Hansford
Dorset County Council