Role of the law in ensuring work related road safety.
Some 150 deaths and serious injuries are caused each week by people who were driving in the course of their work. The police, health and safety executive and government are seeking to improve this startling statistic by ensuring that organizations, including NHS Trusts, comply with health and safety law and fulfil their duty to carry out an assessment of risks associated with work related driving and implement a policy to minimize those risks. Failing to comply could result in prosecution by the police and health and safety executive.
Griffith
Richard
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School of Health Science, Swansea University. richard.griffith@swan.ac.uk
Tengnah
Cassam
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