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RHA and EU plan to ad on site security and terrorism
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The EU aims to beef up supply-chain security with draft regs, and the RHA is poised to launch new security standards. Sally Nash reports.
THE RHA IS TO roll out new security standards later this year following two successful pilots. The Road Haulage Industry Minimum Security Standards (RHIMSS) are designed to address issues such as vetting drivers and depot security.
Chrys Rampley, manager for security at the RHA, explains: "The industry is trying to do something itself rather than having regulations imposed on it."
Rampley points out that there are already management standards in place that deal with security,such as ISO 28000.
The move comes as EU draft regulations set out measures which, if adopted, will make an attempt to protect freight transport byroad. rail and inland waterways against terrorist attacks. This will include auditing freight travelling within the UK, not just goods coming in from abroad. Under the regulations, member states would be obliged to create a 'quality label' for security.
The security measures will initially be taken up by individual companies on a voluntary basis and anyone signing up to the scheme could be subject to audits and screening of staff.
The Freight Transport Association says it is supportive of the scheme in principle.
"We were fearing a knee-jerk mandatory system which would have been irrelevant, but at least this way it is controlled." says AndrewTraill, head of rail freight, maritime and air cargo policy.
"It seems a reasonably sensible approach, but we'd like to se some benefits for those wh comply voluntarily." Traill als believes that there should b guidelines for operators on whi auditors will he looking for.
However, the Federation c Small Businesses (FSB) warn that the bill across the EU coul be as high as f37bn.The draft prc posals are due to be discussed b the Council of Ministers on 4 Ser tember — and the FSB hopes the will be rejected.
• The FTA has rejected calls fro, the European Commission fc harsher regulations on operatin standards for road transpoi within the EU, pointing out th: the UK industry already has a hig level of compliance.