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Work–Related Driving 8.7

Introduction

Employer have legal duty to make sure that suitable arrangements in place to manage work-
related driving. Employers also ensure that others are not put at risk by your work-related driving
activities.

It is good management practice, that is should be part of everyday process.

You can follow a Plan, Do, Check, Act approach to help you to achieve the standards.
Plan
• Assess work-related road safety risks in your organisation
• Determine health and safety policy including organising journeys, driver training and
vehicle maintenance.
• Ensure there is a top management commitment
• Clearly set roles and responsibilities.
Do
• Departments with different responsibilities must co-operate each other
• Ensure adequate systems in place, for example vehicle inspection or maintenance
regimes.
• Involve workers during decision making process, communication, and consultation.
• Provide training, information, and instruction wherever necessary.
Check
• Monitor performance to ensure work-related road safety policy is effective.
• Encourage employees to report work-related road accidents and near misses.
Act
• Review performance based on the lesson learnt.
• Regularly review and update policy.

Assessing the risks

The employer must assess the risk for any work-related driving activity same as other activity.

The five-step approach is used to carry out risk assessment.

REVIEW RISK

ASSESSMEN

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