making road safety at work part ofzx

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Making Road Safety at Work - Part of Mainstream Occupational Safety and

Health

A must know Concept

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CONTENTS

• Introduction

• The problem

• Costs and Benefits

• The Current Legal Position

• The British Experience

• The Nigerian Experience

• How to Manage Work Related Road Safety

• Assessing Risk on the Road

• Steps to Risk Assessment

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Introduction

• Between 1996 – 2003, an average of one accident occurs every 25 minutes.

• Between 1960 – 2003, an average of one person die through road accident every 88.5 minutes.

• Traffic Safety (death/10,000 vehicles) has reduced from 120 to 96.

• Personal Safety increased (death/100,000 population) increased from 30 to 68.

• Level of motorization (veh/1,000 population) increased from 30 to 68.

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The problem

• Most employers wrongly believe that safety of their employees before, during, and after work, is solely the responsibility of individual employee.

• Three quarter of all drivers involved in road traffic accidents in 2003 were carrying commercial driver’s licenses.

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Types of Vehicles Involved in Road accidents

Year Comm Priv Others

1994 9,033 5,410 3,794

1995 8,954 4,972 3,074

1996 9,368 4,863 2,562

1997 8,956 4,674 3,091

1998 8,411 4,376 3,259

1999 6,314 3,732 2,378

2000 6,913 3,611 2,181

2001 7,114 4,513 2,174

2002 7,631 4,673 2,240

2003 7,392 4,635 2,117

TOTAL 80,086 45,459 26,870

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Costs and Benefits• Management time

• Management training

• Risk assessment

• Driver assessment

• Driver training

• Accident Investigation

• Data Collection/analysis

• Control measures

• Reduced accident losses

• Less lost time

• Improved staff morale

• Better public image

• Lower insurance premium

• “Off the job” road safety

• Improved safety culture

• More effective vehicle use

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The Current legal Position

• Occupational Safety and Health Laws in Nigeria

• Factories Act of 1990

• National Road Traffic Regulations (NRTR)

• The Revised Highway Code

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The British Experience• Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974

• Work Related Road Safety Task Group

• Health and Safety Commission

- accepted Task Group’s report now known as

Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations of 1999

- provide guidance on health and safety risk assessment with company’s environment, and safety guidance for employees at work on public highway

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The Nigerian Experience• The regulations in the National Road Transport Regulations

are not employee-friendly. They are also not fully enforced.

• Federal Government must take a cue from the Management of Road Risk (MORR) of the UK Government’s independent Work Related Road Safety Task Group that says

• That employers must manage risk on the road as part of health and safety

• That there should be a major campaign to raise awareness

• That there should be revisions to the statistics collected

• That there must be a further research into prevalence, causation, costs and preventability of road safety at-work risks

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How to manage Work-Related Road Safety

• Policy

Does your health and safety policy statement cover work-related road safety? The policy must be compulsory if you employ five or more people

• Responsibility

Is there top-level commitment to work-related road safety in your organization and its responsibility clearly defined? Does the person responsible for it have sufficient authority to exert influence? Does everyone understand what is expected of him or her?

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• Organization and Structure

In larger organizations, the aim is to ensure that there is an integrated organizational structure that allows cooperation across departments with different responsibilities for work-related road safety. In smaller business, the aim is to ensure that one considers the links between driving activities.

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• Systems

Do you have adequate systems to allow you manage work-related road safety effectively? For example, are you confident that your vehicles are regularly inspected and serviced in accordance with manufacturers’ recommendations?

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• Monitoring

Do you monitor performance to ensure that your work-related road safety policy is effective? Are your employees encouraged to report all work-related road incidents without fear that punitive action will be taken against them? Do you collect sufficient information to allow you make informed decisions about the effectiveness of existing policy and the need for changes?

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Assessing Risk on the Road

• The same principles used as risk assessment for other work activity should be applied to risk assessment for work-related driving activity

• It must be carried out by someone who is very familiar with the intricacies of the work.

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Steps to Risk Assessment

• Look for hazards that may result in harm when driving on public roads

• Decide who might be harmed. In most cases it may be the driver, but may include passengers and other road users.

• Evaluate the risk and decide whether existing precautions are adequate or more should be done

• Record your findings

• Review your assessment and revise it if necessary

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Evaluating the Risks

C o m p e t e n c eI s h e c a p a b l e ?

V a l i d i t y a n d a u t h e n t i c i t yo f d r i v i n g l i c e n c e

T r a i n i n gA t I n d u c t i o n

O n s a f e l o a d d i s t r i b u t i o nO n f a t i g u e o r v e h i c l e b r e a d o w n

F i t n e s s a n d H e a l t hE y e T e s t s a n d B P t e s t s

K n o w l e d g e o f d r u g s e f f e c t

T h e D r i v e r

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S u i t a b i l i t yF i t f o r t h e p u r p o s e ?D o y o u n e e d b i g g e r

v e h i c l e s

C o n d i t i o nW e l l m a i n t a i n e d ?

S p a r e P a r t sB a s i c s a f e t y c h e c k s

S a f e t y E q u i p m e n tA r e t h e y p r o p e r l y

f i t t e d a n dm a i n t a i n e d

S a f e t y C r i t i c a l I n f oD o d r i v e r s k n o wr o a d s a f e t y i n f o

a n d H e l p / R e s t A r e a s

T h e V e h i c l e

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R o u t e sW e l l p l a n n e dA r e t h e y s a f e

f o r y o u r v e h i c l e s

S c h e d u l i n gA r e t h e y r e a l i s t i c ?

2 a m - 6 a m ?2 p m - 4 p m ?

T i m eS u f f i c i e n t f o r j o u r n e y ?

A l l o w a n c e f o r n i g h t s l e e pC h e c k t a c h o m e t e r ?

W e a t h e rP l a n w i t h r a i n ?

A r e v e h e q u i p p e d ?

T h e J o u r n e y

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