Sign Maintenance Activities
Effective sign maintenance includes the following tasks:
- maintaining breakaway features of sign supports to ensure they function as designed (no silt or debris over slip base, no signs attached below hinge points)
- assuring that the sign message is clearly visible at all times (clear of vegetation or other obstructions).
- reporting damaged signs (a responsibility for all employees)
- replacing signs and posts as needed
- straightening posts and sign assemblies
- completing records of all sign installations (stop signs and regulation)
- cleaning as necessary
- tightening sign fasteners
- proper torquing of slip base plate and fuse plate connecting bolts or breakaway sign posts
- tightening anchor bolt nuts on overhead sign supports
- performance of scheduled inspections by trained personnel in accordance with the .