Posted By Roger Blanchard
Morning All,

We are a steel stock holder & deliver steel via our own employed drivers & own fleet of LGV's. Many customers are small one-man-bands with equally V. small premises. This means we often have no alternative but to offload steel from LGV whilst on side of public road

In these circumstances I wonder whether our drivers are still deemed to be "Visitors" of the customer in the same way as when they off-load whilst on/in boundary of customers' premises (ie does customer still owe a duty of care to our employee). Equally, if an accident occurs in this scenario & our employee is IP, should accident be entered into customers accident book as well as ours?

Many thanks for any help/guidance.

Roger

Posted By Roger Blanchard
Forgot to mention that the means of off-loading can vary between: manual (our employee only), manual (our employee + Customers' employee(s)) or Customer FLT, all depending on weights involved + customer off-load facilities.

Thanks

Roger