Not really my field but. In order to pursue this line of work you need to obtain a licence from the local council, requirements for this to be granted vary according to council so you may want to consult your LA to see what they require with regards to H&S, CRB check for drivers etc prior to granting a license. If the taxi office is open to general public then I would imagine there would be a requirement for some form of H&S documentation in place. If however it is being run by some guy with a radio in his front room with no driver base or public access then I`m not too sure. regards

Just re-re-read your email and now realise (I think) that you are referring to providing policies and risk assessments to the self employed drivers. If so then please ignore my last comment.

I think you need to break this down a bit. Generally there are two types of taxi licences, those that are the traditional 'Hackney carriage' that can be hailed by passers by and then a 'private hire' type where the passenger pre-books. This is a simplistic break down and local licensing authorities do vary. For those taxi's that are pre booked generally the taxi driver will be self employed and will hire radio equipment from a taxi operator who acts as the 'middle man' between the passenger and driver. The fares are kept by the driver and the operator derives income from renting the radio equipment. The operator will often have a call centre or office that takes the bookings and these are generally staffed by paid employees. The role of the operator is to take and make the bookings and they would not be involved in the delivery of the taxi journey which is the role of the self employed driver, they are effectively different businesses. Depending on the size of the operator (5 or more employees) will as we know determine whether there will be written policies etc. I would suggest that the call centre staff will be covered in the RA's etc. and not the drivers who are there own 'businesses'. Though I would expect that some duty of care would be owed to the driver. This is what happens in most districts but there will be some where the operator also owns the fleet of vehicles and in that case different rules may apply. Think of this like travel agent and airline, the agent is the middle man, would the airline company expect to see the agents RA's or provide them for the airlines work activities (when these are different companies)? Above is my humble opinion!