Could your company defend itself?
If one of your employees was involved in a road accident whilst driving on business, your company could find itself facing a potential prosecution by the Police and/or the Health & Safety Executive.
For a brief assessment of your company's exposure to the consequences of an at-work driving incident, check each box below and see if you could answer 'yes' to the question.
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...have an identified director responsible for managing road risk, who also understands the legal commitments for the company? |
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...have a written and dated road risk policy and a plan for reducing road risk, which is regularly updated? |
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...apply all your processes and policies to all employees who drive on company business - even in their own vehicle? |
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...carry out routine risk assessments on all aspects of your use of roads, including routing; journey times, and driver and vehicle safety? |
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...analyse the information you collect about vehicle repairs and incidents and identify their causes and frequency? |
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...try to stay up todate with best practice on occupational road risk? |
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...monitor key indicators such as the number of driving incidents, to ensure that road safety in your company is improving? |
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...consider safety first when specifying new vehicles; e.g. Euro NCAP crash test results, active and passive vehicle systems etc? |
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...regularly check your employees’ fitness to drive; e.g. eyesight tests; alcohol/drug abuse checks and ensure employees are not stressed or tired? |
How did you do?
Even if you have answered ‘yes’ to all nine questions, can you provide an audit trail that meets the needs of Health & Safety Guidance 65 and current legislation? There is no way of correctly ranking the effectiveness of your company purely against the nine short questions we ask here. To pretend to do so would be misleading. Our solution is a professional risk assessment tool, looking at company culture, process, policies and management systems and will provide ‘your’ answer which is a compliant safety management system which meets the need of corporate manslaughter legislation, make sure all your answers are YES.