Hi folks I would like to make contact with any H&S advisers dealing with driver/instructor training to the public. I am not sure if any qualified person can set up as a centre and if so do they get audited on meeting workplace safety as well as driver safety? What is the process? Please PM me. Thanks in anticipation. Regards Linda

Linda. Not sure if I have understood your query fully, but driver / rider training for reward (of any kind) is regulated by the DSA. Only Approved Instructors can do it, although there is a grey area around "off-road" training. However, best practice would surely be that competent instructors are used - hence ADIs (Approved Driving Instructors). There is no legal distinction for fleet / advanced / corporate driver training within the ADI profession, but it would usually be a specialist area of a business, and there is CPD training available for ADIs going into this line of work.

Linda - I understand your query a bit better now. Every employer (or self-employed person) is required to comply with H&S legislation. It is up to them, and between them and the enforcers, whether they do or don't, although customers may also have contractual influence. The DSA regulate the driving standards, the local council EHOs will regulate workplace standards. Neither overlaps. RTITB are a very distinct agency, who will have their own ways of providing services. Still not really sure why you are asking.