At work road safety CD under production

Following extensive research carried out in the eastern region, a working party has been established to produce a resource to help businesses address occupational road risk. This project is being financially supported by LARSOA.

"It’s all very well telling businesses that they should be doing something about ORR, but it’s not easy for some companies – particularly smaller ones - to know where to start," explains Stuart Hallett, who heads up the working group.

The resource takes the form of an interactive CD, comprising three main sections - focusing on the vehicle, the driver and ORR policy - with further sub-sections.

"We are producing the CD to help organisations to develop policies and best practice to help drive down their business risk," Stuart Hallett explains. "It will contain a simple guide and description of the issues, web links to useful sites, a framework for policies the user can complete and adopt, Powerpoint presentations for senior managers, line managers and employees, and other documentation and analysis tools."

The CD, ‘driving your business risk down - understanding occupational road risk - a guide for employers’ - is currently under development and should be available in May 2003. Anyone wanting to know more about the resource, or wishing to pre-order, should contact Stuart Hallett by email, stuart.hallett.pt@norfolk.gov.uk.