RoSPA Press Office : Press Release

March 4 , 2005
MINISTER BACKS CAMPAIGN ON WORK-RELATED ROAD SAFETY

Ministerial support for the campaign to tackle work-related road safety has been welcomed by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Speaking at RoSPA’s National Road Safety Congress in Brighton this week, David Jamieson, Transport Minister, said too many businesses still ignored what might happen to their employees who were out on the road.

He said there was a need to engage more of them in developing at-work road safety policies, and reminded the delegates that a third of all road crashes involved someone who was at work at the time.

The Minister praised RoSPA and the Occupational Road Safety Alliance for their work on the issue, and said the Department for Transport and the Local Authority Road Safety Officers Association had been collaborating to produce new publicity materials.

Charles Davis, RoSPA Head of Driver and Fleet Solutions, said: “It was very pleasing to hear how importantly the Government views the management of occupational road risk. It is becoming widely accepted that this is the most serious occupational health and safety issue facing the country.

“RoSPA is continuing to work to encourage employers to incorporate occupational road safety into their mainstream health and safety policies, but still far too many are doing nothing at all. Perhaps they will now begin to realise how big an issue this is.”

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