Hi all,

Another topic / headache I would really appreciate some help with please...!

My company carries out shunting duties for a customer on the customers premises. We operate terberg tugs to shunt HGV trailers and HGV drivers arranged by our company and another seperate haulier collect the trailers.

The customers owns the site, the roads, the warehouses etc. Other third parties, contractors and puplic users of the weighbridge facility, also enter and traverse around the customers site.

My questions are:

A) who is responsible for completing the Transport risk assessment for the site - am i right in thinking it's the site owner?

B) who would be responsible for barriers, people vehilce segrgation, lighting etc. - again, am i right in thinking it would be the site owner?

Appreciate your thought and any pointers of where i can find factual info :)

Customers site, customers problems - you are "the hired help" to drive vehicles

That's how i understand it.

Trouble now is how to convince an HSE Inspector who doesn't look at or read the information that's been passed to to them !!

Thank you for your thoughts and info pointer :)

Hi I work in a similar sounding situation.

A) who is responsible for completing the Transport risk assessment for the site - am i right in thinking it's the site owner?

This should be carried out by by the site owner however, I also ensure compliance to HSG 136 and use the checklist to identify any non-compliance. I also ensure that we have our own site and task specific RA for our drivers.

B) who would be responsible for barriers, people vehilce segrgation, lighting etc. - again, am i right in thinking it would be the site owner?

This is also the site owners responsibility. Again I would use HSG 136 and my own RA to identify further actions required to make improvements to barriers, roadway conditions, segregation, LUX readings etc.

I address all on-site risks to our drivers, assess them and use my RA to ask for support from the customer in order to either improve or reach an agreement in that they accept the risk rating from my assessment. 

I hope this helps.

Danielle

It's not so much a question of who owns the site (this may only be a landlord who leases it out and doesn't get involved), but of who operates the site.

For example, a warehousing business may operate a warehouse which they rent from a landlord.  It is the warehousing business and not the landlord who has operational control of the site and therefore is responsible for the transport risk assesssment.

Edited by user 26 August 2021 08:31:30(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Well I thought it was about a haulage contractor doing jobs on a customer's site.