Chapter 8 Barriers

Expert-Designed Barriers and Cones

Successfully directing and separating traffic, pedestrians and work crews demands barriers that meet – if not exceed – the required UK standards for worksites.

Seton UK also understands the need for barrier systems and other safety products that are swift to put in place and environment-resistant, while offering hard-wearing longevity to deliver measurable value for money.

This is all part of a service that means you never need to ask, “Where can I find dependable, premium Chapter 8 compliant barriers and other safety products?”

Our research, design and engineering excellence

The Chapter 8 traffic management regulations have been created by the Department for Transport (and its other UK counterparts) specifically to control the movement of vehicles and people, and to reduce the shocking statistics for accidents on UK roads.

It includes rigorously applied and often complex design principles for ‘Traffic Safety Measures and Signs for Road Works and Temporary Situations’.

Every aim and specification of this section of the Traffic Signs Manual has been thoroughly studied by our engineers and designers. This ensures that we are confident in supplying the best traffic management barriers to meet Chapter 8 standards.

Knowing that we have taken care of the accuracy of the structure, design and material quality of our road safety products makes your job far easier. You can specify and purchase barriers to your exact requirements, confident that they will fulfil every aspect of the regulations, alongside providing other commercial benefits.

This includes meeting regulations connected to:

• Clear and early warning of obstructions from high-vis, brightly coloured traffic management products.


• Barriers that optimise and fit easily into the road space to create adequate safety zones and working spaces in even challenging locations.


• Directional aids that give motorists and your own work crews help to quickly make decisions and act strategically to avoid incidents and accidents.

These barriers are also durable and reliably constructed to manage potential impacts between road users, your work teams, and your valuable site equipment and vehicles.

This protects people, productivity and also your credibility as a contractor.

What sort of Chapter 8 barriers are vital?

Our responsive service allows you to create bespoke traffic management systems that match your site’s layout and terrain, and its level of operations. This is due to our use of advanced technology and traditional engineering skills, applied to creating barriers, cones and other road safety products.

However, avoiding the risk of injury within public road works, and staying Chapter 8 compliant, always involves:

Purchasing safety barriers that you can re-position and reconfigure during the lifespan of your road works.
Having environment-resilient road management systems and products that stand the test of time and the UK weather.

Beyond this, we have the barrier solutions to all common road and site work needs, including the following.

Barriers that don’t topple easily

How can you be certain that your traffic management barriers stay upright outdoors? We offer sturdy high-vis barriers with feet that are ideal for exposed locations or busy sites.

Barriers to minimise pedestrian trip risk

Do you need barriers with anti-trip features? If so, the perfect solution comes from a range of stackable – and easy to store and assemble – barrier systems with swivel feet to support high-stability central struts.

Sturdy barriers that are easy to move

We also have multi-configuration barriers with non-slip feet, which include innovative grip details to make them even easier to move around in all weathers.

Specific location and hazard barriers

Maybe you need compact and portable lightweight polypropylene barriers in a four or three-gate design, to place around smaller work areas or safety hazards? If so, some of our flexible multi- configuration options are listed below:

Continuous straight or curved barrier systems

When separating heavy-duty traffic or creating barriers for high-speed locations, you may need to specify more robust linking barriers and segregators. We provide Chapter 8-compliant products engineered from highly durable and innovative Solathene™ HD that can be filled with sand or water as a ballast, and then drained swiftly for relocation.

Impact-absorbing traffic management options

In some roadwork locations, you need safety products that can withstand some degree of contact, without damage to vehicles and equipment. For example, our reflective highway swing-back bollards are highly visible delineating products that flex 360 degrees if they are hit.

Versatile barriers for tight spaces

When either storage or the surface area to erect road management systems are tight, there are stable and space-efficient barriers you can purchase from our exclusive range. However, our innovative compact barrier designs do not compromise their compliance or quality.

Traffic cones to match regulations and operational needs

Traffic cones may be the stuff of nightmares for road users, but they are a vital element of the best road traffic management layouts – which is no doubt why estimates put the number of traffic cones being used in the UK at 1.3 million.

Little does the public know how even this simple design can be varied according to the exact traffic management priorities and locations they serve. Different sizes, and the potential to sand-weight cones for extra stability and density, are just some of the bespoke traffic cone specifications we offer.

Made-to-order Chapter 8 compliant barriers

High-vis, reflective features and strong colours are standard throughout this range of premium road management products, but you can request several bespoke design details for barriers and cones.

This could include requesting traffic management products that match your corporate colours, or barriers with company logos on them.

Do you need barriers delivered quickly, to respond to a new or updated new road management need? Our expertise and the fact that we are a UK barriers supplier mean short lead times, even for bespoke road safety products.

It’s not just your business at risk

Speak to the team at Seton UK if you need help deciding which Chapter 8 compliant barriers to buy.

According to the road safety charity Brake, someone is killed or injured on UK roads every 16 minutes, and sadly most of these incidents are preventable. With our advice and dependable traffic management product range, you could be part of the solution, not the problem.