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HSE gathers drivers' views on safety
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NEW RESEARCH on truck drivers' attitudes toward health and safety is to be published on the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) website .
The agency is concerned about the frequency of accidents during delivery and collection operations. While recognising the wide variation in safety procedures on sites it has been canvassing the views of drivers on what goes to make up a safe or an unsafe site.
Colin Chat ten from the HSE's Hazards & Technical Policy Division explains that last April it commissioned Partnership Sourcing to talk to drivers from a range of backgrounds to collect information and help it get a good picture of what is going on in various sites around the country.
-This information will be used to help the HSE draw attention to the potential dangers and good points to look for as well as suggesting ways that companies and organisations might improve their safety systems," he adds.
"Eighteen areas have been identified so far, including: driving off, reversing, keeping pedestrians away from working vehicles and lack of public awareness about the characteristics of industrial vehicles and the way they differ from cars and vans."
This is part of the HSE's Workplace Transport PnOrify programme.
• Contact: www.hse.gov.uk