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Higher penalties ahead for work-related driving offences
...nts; mobile phone/proper control - £30 to be made endorseable: three points, £60; rationalising fines for children not wearing seatbelts - £500 fine for front and rear - currently £200 in rear and £500 in front. The increased penalties put further onus on employers to manage the safety of work-related driving.
News | 30 Nov 2004
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Official statistics show 150 work-related driving accidents a day
...in 2005 statistics have recorded the purpose of journeys and revealed that 'at-work vehicles' were involved in over 54,000 crashes in 2005 or 150 per day. The GMB has said that this massive number of work vehicle crashes each day highlights the need for urgent HSE action. Despite for calls for work-related road traffic accidents to be included in the reporting of workplace accidents under the Reporting of Incidents, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR), as Workplace Law previously reported, it has been announced that such accidents will not be included. The HSE has stated that it f...
News | 13 Nov 2006
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TUC Calls for Employers to Take More Responsibility for Work-related Driving
The TUC wants the Government to make employers more responsible for work-related driving. The TUC says that, in addition to 1,000 worker deaths on the roads every year, there are also about 12,000 serious injuries to driving workers, and 70,000 lesser injuries. The new TUC campaign calls for: - the Government to act on the findings of the independent Work-Related Safety Task Grou...
News | 17 Oct 2002
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Work-related driving should be subject to health and safety law, says task force
A government task force has decided that the HSE should be able to investigate work-related road deaths, according to a report in The Times today. The report claims that a thousand road deaths a year involved work-related driving, and that company car drivers are twice as likely than general motorists to be involved in an accident. If the proposals are accepted, employers will have to conduct risk assessments and investigate any road accidents. In line with health and safety law, organisations could face an unlimited fine i...
News | 27 Feb 2001
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HSE announces: 228 work-related deaths in 2007-2008
It is good to see an improvement in this matter, however these statistics don't include work related deaths occurring whilst driving in the course of employment. Is it not time to start including this information to enable resources to be targeted at the major issue. I am positive that there were more than 38 fatalities during the same period through work related driving accidents.
Comment | 3 Jul 2008
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Official statistics show 150 work-related driving accidents a day
Driving on company business has been recognised by my employers as one of the two major significant risk areas for employees (the other being working all day in front of a computer). We have policies, risk assessments and additional driver training along the lines of "drive to stay alive" for those who we...
Comment | 14 Nov 2006
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Employers must carry out risk assessments for work-related driving in 2005
Slashing employer liability costs through risk assessment programmes has become a key priority for fleets as they move into 2005. But despite this, 58% of employers still have no formal risk assessment procedures for staff driving on company business. British firms are starting to adopt risk assessment programmes in a bid to limit their exposure to soaring insurance premiums and the growing threat of employee litigation. The results were drawn from a seminar held by LeasePlan, in conjunction with The Financial Times, and ...
News | 4 Jan 2005
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Threat to specialist legal support for work-related crime
Government proposals to introduce bidding for criminal defence work could mean the end of specialist advice and representation for defendants accused of work-related crimes, according to a legal firm. The concerns have been raised in response to the Legal Services Commission’s consultation paper on Best Value Tendering (BVT) for certain legal aid services. The consultation paper was issued in March 2009, and proposes a limited BVT scheme which would cover ...
News | 29 Jun 2009
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Scale of at-work drink driving unknown
...the enactment of the Corporate Manslaughter Act earlier this year, it is imperative that fleet managers measure and deal with all issues detrimental to the safety of their drivers.“Employers must conduct suitable risk assessments and put in place all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that work-related journeys are safe, staff are fit and are competent to drive safely and the vehicles used are fit for purpose and in a safe condition,” says RoSPA in its Driving for Work - Drink and Drugs advice sheet.One company recently escaped prosecution after one of its drivers crashed while over the drink d...
News | 20 Aug 2008
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Campaigners reject work-related health strategy
...to what people can do (rather than can’t do) and improving communication between employers, employees and GPs. Government should pilot a new Fit for Work service based on case-managed, multidisciplinary support for patients in the early stages of sickness absence, with the aim of making access to work-related health support available to all – no longer the preserve of the few.The Government is currently considering Dame Carol’s recommendations and will respond formally in the autumn.
News | 4 Aug 2008
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Work-related health services need a radical change
The National Director for Health and Work has proposed "radical" changes to work-related health services, and has called for an urgent and comprehensive reform to create a new approach to health and work in Britain. Dame Carol Black’s report, Working for a Healthier Tomorrow, contains the results of the first ever review to identify what the Government, businesses and the medical pr...
News | 17 Mar 2008
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Should work-related road incidents be reported under RIDDOR?
...report serious incidents relating to on-the-road work activities under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR) should be introduced. The report follows a request from the Department for Transport (DfT) to the Motorists' Forum to look at the issue of work-related road safety and advise on how companies and other organisations can be encouraged and helped to raise their road safety standards. The working group concluded that by organisations introducing the following simple measures they could make savings of hundreds of pounds per vehicle per annum, get be...
News | 2 Jun 2005
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HSE Publishes Guidance on Work-related Road Safety
The HSE has published its long-awaited guidance on work-related road safety, aimed at alerting employers and the self-employed to the fact that their responsibilities under current health and safety law extend to driving at work. The HSE guidance complements the Workplacelaw Network's existing model policy and guidance note. The guidance covers employers' l...
News | 17 Sep 2003
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HSE Plans Autumn Launch for Work-related Road Safety Guidance
The HSE has announced plans to publish its generic guidance for employers on work-related road safety this autumn. Speaking at the 'Best of the Best' conference, in association with the road safety charity Brake, Sharan Bains, head of work-related road safety policy at the Safety Policy Directorate for the HSE, highlighted the Executive's plans. She said: "As long as there are no unf...
News | 27 Jun 2003
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HSE Works with Police on Work-Related Road Accidents
Police officers are to be provided with a series of guidelines on how to investigate companies whose employees have been involved in a road accident while driving for work. It is one of a new series of measures discussed by UK road safety executives with Transport Minister David Jamieson. The proposal builds on a recommendation made in previous reports that health and safety and road-safety enforcing authorities should develop a co-ordinate approach to in...
News | 18 Aug 2004
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New Work-Related Road Safety Site Launched
Nearly 70 organisations are behind a new website which has been launched to raise awareness of work-related road safety and to encourage businesses to manage at-work-road risk more effectively. The Occupational Road Safety Alliance (ORSA) site has been developed with the support of the Department for Transport. It provides ORSA members and others in the road safety and occupational safety commu...
News | 2 Apr 2004
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Driving at work: Managing work-related road safety
...Many incidents happen due to inattention and distractions as well as failure to observe the Highway Code. You need to consider what steps you should take to ensure that your employees use the road as safely as possible. Contents: Introduction. Your legal responsibilities. Benefits of managing work-related road safety. How to manage work-related safety. Assessing risks on the road. Evaluating the risks. References and further information.
Official guidance | 1 Sep 2003
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48: How the 48-hour working week could push employers to the max
...ek over a 17-week rolling period. However, research suggests that many drivers are clocking up as many as 60 hours per week far in excess of the legal maximum. And while commuting is not covered by the Regulations, it can be taken into account by the HSE in some cases, and could be regarded as a work-related driving activity where travelling to and from work significantly extends an employee's working day. So how do fleet managers keep their workforce in order and stick to these Regulations with so many competing pressures? For an outsider looking at the legislation, the mechanics of the Regulations look extre...
Magazine issue | 5 Feb 2009
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Last chance to take part in young drivers at work project
... sometimes skills on top of learner training and testing that are needed when at work.“The responses are also showing the ways employers want the risks associated with young drivers to be managed, and whether a qualification in driving for work could be useful as part of that.”Young drivers and work-related driving are two of today’s biggest road safety challenges. Figures show that young motorists are at greater risk of being killed or injured than more experienced drivers. It is also estimated that one in three crashes involves a vehicle being driven for work. This means that every week, about 200 deaths ...
News | 16 Dec 2008
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workplace driving
Dawn doing a driver assessment is very important. With the new CM law you should at least have in place a "work-related driving H&S policy". Don't just tag on a paragraph at the end of your main policy. Online assessments are used mainly by companies with many drivers over several locations to highlight any HIGH risks. They are just the beginning though. If you find out your drivers are high or medium risk, what then? Yo...
Comment | 24 Feb 2010
