
Workplace transport
safety (Employers'
guide)
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622
By
law, you must take account of your employees’ capabilities
regarding health and safety when you give them tasks.
623
The
law also requires that employers must make sure employees are
given adequate training to ensure health and safety:
•
when they are recruited; and
•
when they are exposed to new or increased risks in the
workplace.
624
Only authorised drivers should be allowed to drive workplace
vehicles
625
Employers’ procedures for recruitment, checking references,
induction, training, supervision, auditing and assessing
competence should make sure that workers are fit to operate the
machines and attachments they use at work, in all of the
environments in which they are used.
Extracted from....
Workplace transport safety (Employers' guide)
HSE Second Edition 2005 ISBN 0 7176 6154 7
HSG 136
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