Occupational road risk ‘should be a priority’
Employers and the Government need to do more to ensure work-related
road safety is given the same attention as general health and safety,
according to a new report commissioned by Royal Society for the
Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
RoSPA asked TRL (Transport Research Laboratory) and the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London (UCL) to examine the management of occupational road risk in the UK.
The report, which makes a number of recommendations, assesses the progress made in helping employers to manage the risks their staff face and create when they use the road for work purposes. It calls for the data on work-related driving risk to be improved, including better recording by the police and Health and Safety Executive, and for the effectiveness of different approaches to the management of occupational road risk to be properly evaluated.
However, the Government has ruled out making the reporting of work-related driving accidents part of RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurances Regulations 2013).
http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/2014/7/18/occupational-road-risk-should-be-a-priority-/53034/
RoSPA asked TRL (Transport Research Laboratory) and the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London (UCL) to examine the management of occupational road risk in the UK.
The report, which makes a number of recommendations, assesses the progress made in helping employers to manage the risks their staff face and create when they use the road for work purposes. It calls for the data on work-related driving risk to be improved, including better recording by the police and Health and Safety Executive, and for the effectiveness of different approaches to the management of occupational road risk to be properly evaluated.
However, the Government has ruled out making the reporting of work-related driving accidents part of RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurances Regulations 2013).
http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/2014/7/18/occupational-road-risk-should-be-a-priority-/53034/
