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.