Posted By riskybizz After a bit of advice here guys, it's been a long day so please excuse me.... If an employee uses his own vehicle to travel to work(construction) and this involves a 2 hour journey each way, and he works 8 hrs on site(theoretically) should the travel be part of the risk assessment? Also, would the employee be entitled to more breaks? Thanks in advance................

Posted By Melanie Fellows At our company, if the job is over a certain distance away we pay them "dig money" so that they stay over near the job. Mel

Posted By Tabs It should be part of your risk assessment, but only as a possible influence on work-related matters. i.e. you shouldn't risk assess the chances of him hitting a bus on the way into work, but you might wonder if he is fit to work with intricate/heavy machines towards the end of the day. You shouldn't worry about his brakes on the way home but you might want to consider whether he is fit to drive if you have given him heavy manual work for eight hours before hand. Now ... my thought is that although you might want to record you have considered it, most healthy men should be fine with appropriate breaks and with guidance about driving whilst tired. But it doesn't take much of a health issue (like a virus) to mean that a long day can impact on driving skills. In reality, very few of us do this - but I recall a vague reference to criticism after an accident caused by long work hours. 8 hours may not fall into that category.

Posted By D H Raymond - you are correct in what you say about driving to work - unless they are driving to a place other than their normal workplace - IE construction site for audit on behalf of the employer. The risk assessment should be easy enough - generic - and to the highway code. Work and travel time together may then become an issue - but that is down to the individual employer and his employee to agree arrangements. Dave

Posted By A Campbell I suppose it would need to be defined if the employee is employed in a peripatetic capacity? Bearing this in mind the travel required to undertake their tasks would also be factored in as not all people employed on construction sites are static. In addition there are many cases where persons are employed for more than the duration of one construction site?