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Safety Net Journal Issue 6 |
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Sign our road risk petition!
Usdaw is supporting an e-petition from Preston Trades Council calling for work-related road traffic accidents to be reportable.
20 people on average are killed weekly by work-related road crashes (UK Government statistics). Employers often cause or contribute to these deaths by failing to include the risks from driving in their health and safety arrangements, placing responsibility on individual drivers' behaviour, not satisfying legal duties to assess/mitigate risk and imposing unreasonable targets.
Health and Safety Executive annual work-related accidents/deaths statistics are wrong, as work-related road incidents are excluded.
The petition calls on the Government to act immediately to make reportable under RIDDOR all injuries and deaths to workers/members of the public from work-related traffic incidents, improve enforcement by HSE, local authorities & police of employers' statutory duties under existing legislation and enable the prosecution of negligent employers for corporate killing.
The petition is endorsed by all UK trade unions representing members who drive whilst at work.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/petitionforkaren
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