Abstract
This commentary considers work-related road safety and strategies that can be used to reduce work-related traffic accidents, which account for between 25% and 33% of all serious and fatal road accidents. The author first reports some of the statistics found by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), the Dykes Report of 2001 about the high risks faced by people on the road for work purposes, and studies from the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL). The author then considers ways that employers could take work-related road safety more seriously, including vehicle selection, scheduling, training courses, and the use of information from the organizations in the Occupational Road Safety Alliance. The author concludes by calling for additional government resources to tackle this problem of work-related road safety.
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