Is driving for your company a risky business?

As an employer or senior manager should I allow my employees to carry out a driving activity (however minor) for my company without assessing whether they are a potential risk to themselves or others?

You have a `duty of care’ towards employees when they drive while they are at work.  You also have a `legal` responsibility to ensure that others are not put at risk by your work-related driving activities.

View the Driving for Work checklist and tick which recommended safety measures you currently undertake.  Driving for work Checklist 

You have a Legal responsibility: Your Legal Responsibility 

At work driving is the biggest cause of work related accidental death.  Find out how risky it is  - Your Company’s Driving Risks 

There is a strong Business Case for addressing work related driving risks:

• The majority of costs incurred in crashes, whether injury related or not cannot be insured against.
• Year on year the costs of doing nothing about at work crashes gets more expensive and eats into company profit margins.
• In 2000 the HSE estimated the costs to employers arising from ‘at-work’ road traffic crashes to be in the region of £2.7 BILLION per annum.¹

¹'Reducing at-work road traffic incidents - Final Report' - Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

Further help

Download the HSE Driving for Work leaflet Health and Safety Executive

How to contact us:
Telephone: 01296 382450
Email roadsafety@buckscc.gov.uk
Post: Road Safety, FREEPOST ANG 332, County Hall, Walton Street, Aylesbury, Bucks.  HP20 1BR