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Thats where you are ill-informed, Mr Foulmouth. Transport and road deaths are dealt with by dfT, police etc. The application of the HSWA re conduct of the undertaking is for HSE.

http://www.corporateaccountability.org/HSE/road/factors.htm This is a pressure group concerned with HSE activities, or more the lack of them. They quote an HSE document thus: "This policy is not, however, intended to exclude the use of health and safety legislation in respect of all work-related road traffic incidents. Where safety cannot be adequately regulated by the enforcement of other more specific legislation, such as the Road Traffic Acts and the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, there may be a need to use health and safety legislation, particularly in the cases of serious management shortcomings, e.g. failure to check driving licence validity or encouragement of the use of mobile phones while driving."
 

spindrift

New Member
From the health and safety aspects of lorries on the roads - a lot of
people have been killed by left turning lorries in London, many of them
linked to construction sites. If they ran over someone on the construction site the HSE would be swarming all over them but because they do it just
outside on the roads, they are not interested because as they say "work-
related road safety is not a priority"


They are paying more attention. They don't want to be responsible for
road crashes in general, but they are increasingly getting involved
in driving during working hours. There's been quite a bit of press
about it in the last six months to a year.

See, for example, their publication indg382 - which is sub-titled
"managing work-related road safety" and was published two years ago.
A google should find it, it's a free download from the hse web site
somewhere. All jolly stirring stuff (benefits of managing driving H&S
etc), and the caveat early on "Health and safety law does not apply to
commuting, unless the employee is travelling from their home to a
location which is not their usual place of work".


And see the page of their website linking to it which states "While HSE
will continue to promote sensible advice to employers, in line with its
workplace health and safety strategy to 2010 and beyond, work-related road safety is not a priority for HSC/E."

http://213.212.77.20/roadsafety/index.htm


I accept your apology.
 
That it is not a priority (a political decision, not a legal one) does not mean that for the purposes of supervising the senior management of the company, the behaviour of their em'ees is irrelevant. If people affected by activities by their employees complained they would have to take up the issues of H&S management. HSE cannot walk away from this.
 

Tynan

Veteran
Location
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if there's room for him to safely pass, let him pass

if there isn't, don't

I certainly wouldn't stop or leave the road to let them past

man on the ground one though, natch
 
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