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Committee Report - Work-Related Road Safety |
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A number of organisations believed that
employers should be required to report work-related
road incidents under RIDDOR (the Reporting
of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences
Regulations 1995 ). This was also a recommendation
of the Task Group, which concluded that
it was essential in order to build up a
statistical database and use reports to
target investigations, would not be too
burdensome on individual firms and would
help to raise awareness of the issue among
employers. The HSC told us that the review
of RIDDOR was currently underway and would
be looking at reporting of at-work road
traffic incidents causing injury. A discussion
document is to be issued in 2004. |
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The Committee recommends that at-work
road traffic incidents should be required
to be reported pursuant to RIDDOR. |
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A further issue was whether there should
be an Approved Code of Practice (failure
to comply with which may be taken, in court,
as evidence of failure to comply with the
legislation). The Work-related Road Safety
Task Group recommended that HSE should issue
guidance ‘as soon as possible’
and that the impact of the guidance should
be reviewed in Spring 2004, to determine
whether to recommend the production of an
Approved Code of Practice. In fact the guidance
was not published until September 2003.
In evidence to the Committee, the Association
of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) called
on the HSE to develop an Approved Code of
Practice (ACoP) in this area. When asked
about this, Mr Bill Callaghan argued that
what was needed was ‘to get a better
knowledge base of what road accidents have
a clear work provenance.’ |
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The Committee recommends that, by 1
October 2005 the HSC/E should carry out
a review of the case for an ACoP on work-related
road safety, and publish its reasoned
conclusions
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