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This introductory guide provides simple advice, based on the HSE’s approach of ‘Plan, Do, Check, Act’, and signposts you to more detailed guidance. It is designed for organisations that may not have considered this issue previously and are unsure how to start.
RoSPA
An Introduction to Managing Occupational Road Risk
An introduction to Highways England’s Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention Programme including initiatives aimed at tackling the main causes of incidents involving commercial vehicles.
National Highways
Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention Programme
The Highways England Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention Team is collaborating on a range of initiatives to improve safety for drivers and operators of commercial vehicles as well as other road users.
National Highways
Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention Case Studies
This leaflet is for those who need to put in place or oversee their organisation’s health and safety arrangements. It’s a brief guide to help you comply with the law, and summarises the more detailed guidance in Managing for health and safety (HSG65)
Health and Safety Executive
Plan, Do, Check, Act (INDG275)
This guidance has been produced by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to help people involved in workplace transport reduce the chances of accidents happening. It is mainly aimed at managers but operators and their safety representatives will also find it useful.
Health and Safety Executive
Workplace transport safety: A brief guide (INDG199)
This guide provides advice for employers on what they need to do to comply with the law and reduce risk. It will also be useful for managers, supervisors, employees and their safety representatives, as well as contractors, vehicle operators and other organisations concerned with workplace transport...
Health and Safety Executive
A guide to workplace transport safety (HSG136)
Employers have a duty to consult with their employees, or their representatives, on health and safety matters. This leaflet is aimed at employers and discusses what they need to do to ensure they are complying with the law.
Health and Safety Executive
Consulting employees on health and safety: A brief guide to the law (INDG232)
Traffic Commissioner Sarah Bell talks to David Williams about why a breakdown in trust between fleet operator and traffic commissioner could severely disrupt your ability to do business.
Office of the Traffic Commissioners
How safe is your ‘O’ Licence?
Employers and fleet operators across the country, whose commercial vehicles are defective, or whose drivers break the law, are now coming under closer scrutiny
Driving for Better Business
The landscape is changing around compliance
Who can drive a van, the speed limits and weight limits that apply, and rules on loading, drivers' hours and maintenance.
DVSA
Guidance: Driving a van
The impact of COVID-19 on UK businesses will take a while to be fully realised. Our new Fleet Safety Guide distils the key issues and provides advice from our experts on how to deal with them effectively as the lockdown continues to ease.
IAM RoadSmart
COVID-19: Driving business back to work – safely and profitably
Many in the transport and driver risk management arena believed the Corporate Manslaughter Act would make it easier to hold organisations to account for the wellbeing and safety of those engaged in driving for work. The reality has been somewhat different.
IAM RoadSmart
White Paper: The Corporate Manslaughter Act, ten years on
Confidence in your fleet safety profile comes from three things. Understanding everything you’re responsible for, making sure everything is managed in line with industry best practices, and having a robust audit trail to prove everything was done correctly. Barrie will talk through the key things...
Driving for Better Business
Confidence in the compliance of your fleet
This Safe Loading Code of Practice (The Code) has been compiled to offer guidance to drivers and operators of vehicle transporters to address the basic issues which can lead to serious incidents where personal injury and damage are all too common.