Driving is the most dangerous work activity that most people do. Research indicates that about 20 people are killed and 250 seriously injured every week in crashes involving someone who was driving, riding or otherwise using the road for work purposes. HSE Guidelines for employers,‘Driving atWork’, state that “health and safety law applies to on-the-road work activities as to all work activities and the risks should be effectively managed within a health and safety system”. Therefore, employers must assess the risks involved in their staff’s use of the road for work and put in place all ‘reasonably practicable’measures to manage those risks. Such measures are likely to more than pay for themselves by reducing the organisation’s accident costs,many of which will be uninsured, such as lost staff time or just doing the paperwork. (Author/publisher)
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