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Posted By Tim Corbett
I thought that an RTI's were now going to be covered by the HSE as reportable accidents. Am I wrong?
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Posted By steven bentham
Tim
Road traffic accidents are a matter for the Police.
The HSE have for a few years been tasked with investigating accidents where the site of the accident is on the road and the accident is a work activity. An easy example is road works, where a road worker fails to take correct safety measures and another employee or member of the public is injured.
More border line are accidents involving fork lift trucks unloading from roads; again these will be HSE. Further border line is where construction plant travels on the road between sites, such as a dumper travelling short distances.
If you are at work driving your car and have an RTA it is still the Police.
Sorry if this is not clear.
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Posted By Brett Day Tim I know where you are coming from there traditionally has been a grey area over the enforcenment route following RTA's the police view that if one of the IP's is on business then any follow up is down to the HSE, likewise the HSE have had the view taht it is covered under the Road Traffic Act, couple this with nowhere to record wether or not a driver is on business or not has lead to a grey area and a bit of a mess with regards work related driving accident. The HSE took the bull by the horns a few years back and started getting more involved to the extent that the new STATS 19 form used by the police in investigating RTA's now requires the police to ascertain if any of the drivers where on business. So we now have a start at quantifying the problem officially rather than through second hand data (insurance claims etc). There was talk of RTA's whilst at work being required to be reported to the HSE by the police or by the RIDDOR route. Unfortunatly the HSE are scaling back thier role after effectively being told 'hands off' by the DfT who see this as being on thier patch (despite having done very little over the years), so expect it to sink back into the mud. That's the background and here are some links: http://www.hse.gov.uk/roadsafety/http://www.orsa.org.uk/But yes, effectively if a driver on work business is involved with an RTA then the police will be the lead invetigator and normally the lead in a prosecution.
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