The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) has relaunched its Occupational Road Risk Management Charter, aimed at reducing road risk and enhancing the safety of employees, contractors, and the public. It sets out a series of commitments to manage and mitigate the likelihood of being killed or injured while driving, or being driven, for work purposes.
The relaunched Charter is an opportunity for rail organisations to renew their commitment to occupational road risk. It provides a common framework for rail sector leaders to work together, aligning with the Rail Health and Safety Strategy and Occupational Road Risk Management collaboration arrangements.
Johnny Schute, chair of the Rail Health and Safety Strategy Executive Advisory Group and chief operating officer of the Rail Safety and Standards Board, added:
“This Charter is a powerful and potent lever to bear down on the risks that driving incurs. RSSB firmly supports its adoption and stands ready to help the rail sector realise the benefits of Driving for Better Business.”
The Charter also supports commitment to the National Highways’ Driving for Better Business programme. Backed by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), this supports employers in reducing road risk through good practice management of staff who drive as part of their job. The programme offers useful online tools and resources to help employers evaluate practices, strengthen culture, enhance performance, and demonstrate leadership in the management of work-related road risk.
Jamie Hassall, executive director of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, stated:
“PACTS is a strategic partner of the DfBB [Driving for Better Business] programme and is pleased to support the Charter as it helps to promote wider improvements to the management of occupational road risk.”
Richard Hines, HM Chief Inspector of Railways at the Office of Rail and Road, stressed the importance of working together, saying:
“The ORR is pleased to support the Charter and the commitments it sets out. Strong collaboration across the industry and with our supply chain colleagues will be key to securing further, sustained, improvements in the management of occupational road risk.”
To download a copy of the Occupational Road Risk Management Charter, please visit: The Occupational Road Risk Management Charter.
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