Employers 'unaware' of transport hazards

It is a given that housing associations will have travelling agents who use vehicles. However, many UK employees remain in the dark about workplace transport risks, a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) study has revealed.

The HSE questioned a sample of businesses from five major sectors of industry and found that: 28% had not performed a risk assessment that considered workplace transport issues; 26% provided no training for their workplace transport operators; 57% were unaware of HSE's workplace transport safety initiative.

The findings have given rise to a number of recommendations aimed at improving awareness of workplace transport issues, including:

More education on the dangers associated with workplace transport, particularly with respect to lack of supervision, reversing and inadequate safe systems of work.
Increased training for workplace transport operators.
A need to promote greater awareness of the duty to perform risk assessments on workplace transport systems.

Copies of the HSE's findings are available from: www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr523.pdf

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Employers 'unaware' of transport hazards

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