Road safety

A workforce that is overstretched and inexperienced will require training and support if health and safety standards are to be maintained, argues transport safety manager Dean Roscoe CMIOSH.

An Office of Road and Rail (ORR) report that provides quality assurance of safety data relating to All Lane Running (ALR) motorways supports National Highways claims that this type of smart motorway is relatively safer in comparison with other roads in terms of fatalities.

Companies who monitor the driving behaviour of staff may be able to contribute to their employee’s long-term health and wellbeing by spotting early signs of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study has revealed.

WorkSafe NZ has published a report with 13 recommendations to improve vehicle-related health and safety and actively manage supply chain pressures to minimise vehicle-related risks.

A transport boss has been jailed for 15 years and a driver sentenced to six years after two men died when their car was hit by an HGV with faulty brakes.

The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) is calling on employers to introduce company-wide fatigue risk management strategies to combat the problem after its report found around a quarter to almost a third of drivers surveyed had admitted to having fallen asleep while driving at least once in the past year.

Technology has a vital role to play in driver safety, but it can’t be at the expense of human factors.

More than half of Britain’s working days lost in 2019/20 were due to mental ill-health.

Motorists have let their driving standards slip during lockdown, new research has revealed.

James Pomeroy considers the the indirect increase in road deaths due to people avoiding public transport during the pandemic