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Evidence required

Requirement

To maintain safe and healthy working conditions.

Purpose

To reduce the risk of work-related accidents, injuries and cases of ill health and help ensure the health, safety and welfare of anyone affected by the fleet operation.

Demonstration

FORS Operators shall have a policy and procedures to reduce the probability and severity of work-related accidents, injuries and cases of ill health. The policy shall be supported by risk assessments or method statements and state the organisation’s commitment to health and safety.

The policy shall also:

  • Name the person with continuous and effective responsibility for health and safety
  • Describe how health and safety is managed, stating who does what, when and how
  • Outline the procedure for reporting workplace accidents, occupational diseases and dangerous occurrences (near-misses)
  • Be clearly displayed in the workplace

Health and safety risk assessments or method statements shall, where applicable, include:

  • Slips, trips and falls
  • Manual handling
  • Lone working
  • Substances hazardous to health
  • Access to vehicles and working at height
  • Working around moving vehicles
  • Reversing, manoeuvring and turning
  • Coupling, uncoupling and towing trailers

Operational and driving at work risks shall be assessed with control measures documented as a procedure, risk assessment or method statement. Operational and driving at work risks include:

  • D2 Seat belts, speed, distraction and adverse weather
  • D5 In-vehicle communications
  • V5 Safe loading and load restraint
  • O1 Routing, including prescribed passenger routes, designated routes to and from construction sites, and notified routes for abnormal indivisible loads (AIL)
  • O4 Passenger safety
  • O5 Specialist operations
  • O6 Security and counter-terrorism

Risk assessments and method statements shall include personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements for drivers, particularly PLV riders.

The policy, procedures, risk assessments, method statements, records and data relevant to health and safety shall be:

Evidence required

A documented Health and Safety policy and procedure;

Evidence of H&S policy being clearly displayed in the workplace i.e. photographic or other visual evidence

Risk assessments or method statements for the following health and safety areas:

  • Slips, trips and falls
  • Manual handing
  • Lone working
  • Substances hazardous to health
  • Access to vehicles and working at heights
  • Working around moving vehicles
  • Reversing, maneuvering and turning
  • Coupling, uncoupling and towing

Documented risk assessments, method statements or a procedures for the following operational and driving at work areas:

  • Seat belts, speed, distraction and adverse weather
  • In-vehicle communications
  • Safe loading and load restraint
  • Routing, including prescribed passenger routes, designated routes to and from construction sites, and notified routes for abnormal indivisible loads (AIL)
  • Passenger safety
  • Specialist operations
  • Security and counter-terrorism

Tips: the only non-mandatory risk assessments/method statements are coupling, uncoupling and towing if no trailers are operated, and specialist operations if no ADR, AIL, hazardous and non-hazardous upper-tier waste and longer semi-trailers are operated.

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