HSE recently published the 2019 fatal injury stats, with specific exclusion of fatal road traccifc collisions (RTCs) becasue such data is recorded by another agency.  Checked the last (2017) stats by the DfT, and whilst mentioning vehicle types, not one mention of work, employment or similar.   The Stats19 Formhas no means of recording if work / employment was involved by any of the parties. Work related road riskshould, IMHO, be high on every employer/employee's radar and being actively managed. Some businesses rave about how failing to manage WRRR will lead to a Corporate manasluaghter prosecution (Scaremongering!!) Does anyone have any sources that would assist in assessing how well or badly we are doing as the 2 main sources of such information specifically exclude the very data that might be used helpus assess our success or failure in this area.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/fatals.htm?utm_source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=digest-11-jul-19&utm_term=header&utm_content=stats-july-19

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/744077/reported-road-casualties-annual-report-2017.pdf

Below are some WRRR data provided by Mr Google. I don't how accurate these stats are and I would hazard a guess they are more anecdotal than scientific due to the lack of an accurate recording process.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/roadsafety/roadsafety.htm

http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/adhoc-analysis/lfs-worked-related-rta.htm

https://www.brake.org.uk/facts-resources/15-facts/1292-work-related-road-safety

Highways England - Driving for better business? https://www.drivingforbetterbusiness.com/

Stats 19 is dependant on the officer at the road side recording the correct information...further information is available from the local authority/ collision investigation who can provide maps on type of collisions which can show commercial vehicles as well as duty at the time of the incident...you have to pay for it but it is usedful,, I used it in for high consequence dangerous goods road risk... roadsafety fundation is a good start so is EurRap and also Crashmap UK which can be filtered to note commerical...again more for route risk assessments rather than a headline...

I've since found some official stats (My thanks to BRAKE) on work related KSIs (Search ras30037) which gives data for 2012-17.  Stats are great at saying whatever we want.

driver/rider killed at work dropped from 87 to 76 (yay), but serious injury rose from 1301 to 1357.   driver rider commuting to/from work rose from 85 to 90 and serious injury from 1720 to 2291.

Two things to note, the recording methods have changed at least once in that time, secondly I must assume that driving at work and commuting to/from work are different individuals (the latter being higher).   So, could or should the real work related road risk include killed going to, being at or coming from work where it dropped from 172 to 166 deaths but serious injury rose from 3021 to 3648.  Those higher numbers have cunningly been hidden from the stats.

We know that road risk has been a high profile for years, it has supposedly been under the remit of the H&S professionals for a similar period.  So, not one to shy away from contentious questions - What are the H&S professionals doing or failing to do to combat this trend which impinges upon EVERY workplace?  

imwaldra - in light of the above, your comment on the IOSH reasearch funds is interesting.