Duty of Care by Compare Contract Hire

If you run one vehicle or more, and you are a company entity, you need to be aware of the Corporate Risk legislation affecting your business. There are numerous pieces of legislation around this subject and you should ensure you have a comprehensive road risk assessment plan for your organisation.

This risk assessment plan should cover any employees that are known or believed to be driving at work in a company car or van, their own vehicle or in a rental vehicle.

Key legislation includes;

- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

- The Provision of Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998.

- The Road Vehicles( Construction and Use) Regulations 1986.

- The Workplace( Health and Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.

- Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2008

The Government Department of Transport and Health and Safety Executive have published a useful publication to help you at:

www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg382.pdf

Or our Contract Hire Partners will be happy to help and advise you on any questions regarding your duty of care responsibilities.

Do you have a written health and safety policy that includes your vehicle fleet?
Is your health and safety policy audited annually by you and improved?
Do you issue your drivers with a vehicle handbook containing details of your policies or procedures?
Are your policies and procedures being followed and how do you measure this?
Are your policies and procedures adequate to protect you from current legislation?
Do you monitor actual driving hours per day, week and month?
Do you have a policy in place to govern safe and legal usage of mobile phones whilst driving a car or van?
Do you regularly check driving licences and insurance details of all employees who drive cars or vans in connection with work?
Do you check whether your drivers are still healthy to drive i.e. their eyesight or other medical ailments that may affect or impair their driving?
Can you ensure that all your company vehicles are safe and roadworthy at all times?
Have you got an audit trail to demonstrate the above?

Or ask for further information from one of our contract hire finance partners who will be able to help you formulate your own policy.

Compare Contract Hire Ltd cannot be held responsible in any way concerning the accuracy of the above information