Company Meeting Title

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MAINSTREAMING MORR Bringing risk on the road
into mainstream HS
Presented by
Roger Bibbings Occupational Safety Adviser THE
ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS
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RoSPAs mission

• RoSPAs mission is to enhance the quality of
  life by exercising a powerful influence for
  accident prevention
• Key issues to date
• managing occupational road risk (MORR)
• accident investigation (Acc Inv)
• director action on safety and health (DASH)

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Road casualties G.B.

• KILLED SERIOUSLY
• INJURED
• 1981/85 average 5,598 74,534
• 1994/98 average 3,578 44,078
• 2003 3,508 33,707
• Percentage reduction 37
  55
• (approx 40 per cent increase in traffic volume)

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Occupational road accidents key points

• 800 1000 deaths per annum (at work
  drivers/passengers/ pedestrians, other road
  users) compared with 450 RIDDOR
• UKs biggest occupational safety issue
• Excluded from mainstream HS management/enforcemen
  t
• Action needed on company cars and vans
• Prevention focused on management not just
  drivers!
• MORR can contribute to national RS targets (40
  reduction KSI by 2010)

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Who is at risk?

• Commercial vehicle drivers
• Sales staff
• Service engineers
• Delivery workers
• Social workers
• Emergency services
• Local authority staff
• Bus and coach drivers passengers
• Voluntary workers

• Motorcycle couriers
• Pizza delivery riders
• Police
• Paramedics
• Government officials
• Teachers
• Vehicle recovery staff
• Health workers
• At-work pedestrians
• Anyone on the road as part of their job!!!!

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MORR initiatives

• 1996/7 RoSPA seminars (Esso/EEF)
• 1998 RoSPA Guidance/ Stoke Court Declaration
• 1999 input to Tomorrows Roads
• 2000/2001 WRRSTG (Dykes report)
  (www.hse.gov.uk/road/content/traffic1.pdf)
• 2002 ORSA
• 2003 New HSE/DfT guidance/RoSPA guidance 2nd
  edition
• 2004 New ORSA website/work programme

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Causes of road crashes?

• IMMEDIATE
• inappropriate
• speed
• inattention
• falling asleep
• travelling too close
• drink/drugs
• adverse weather
• vehicle defects
• highway conditions

• UNDERLYING
• pressure/attitudes
• distractions/fatigue
• inadequate sleep
• congestion
• stress
• poor journey planning
• poor maintenance
• poor routeing

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Employer impact on crash risk

• Exacerbate
• Too far
• Too fast (incentives to speed etc)
• Unsafe routes
• Unsafe conditions
• Unsafe vehicles
• Stressed, tired, untrained drivers
• Mobiles
• Poor HS culture

• Ameliorate
• Reducing exposure
• Clear policy on speed
• Journey planning
• Safer vehicles
• Driver assessment and training
• Action to combat fatigue
• No mobile while mobile
• Clear MORR policies
• Leadership by example

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The case for action

• Ethics, CSR etc
• Legal compliance
• The business case

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Company values..

• Nothing we do is so important that it justifies
  injuring our employees or members of the public
• Major Utility CEO

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The legal context

• Two sets of law.....
• HSW Act (safe system of work, MHSW Regs (risk
  assessment, management system)
• (enforced by HSE/LAs but not on road)
• plus
• Road Traffic Acts, Highway Code, CU Regs etc
• (enforced by police, concerned mainly with
  driver behaviour)

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New HSE/DfT guidanceDriving at Work - Sept 03

• (Accessible at http//www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg382
  .pdf)
• Explains how HS law applies on the road
• Suggests approaches to risk assessment
• Suggests control measures/performance review
• Signposts further information
• Highlights the business case

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From HSE caveat

• . HSCs enforcement policy statement recognises
  the need to prioritise investigation and
  enforcement action. Current priorities, as set
  out in HSCs strategic plan, do not include
  work-related road safety .

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Threats to the business

• Accident costs
• Lost business
• Lost staff time
• Higher fleet premia
• Loss of morale
• Threat to corporate reputation
• Notices and/or prosecutions
• Common law claims
• Corporate manslaughter?

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What are businesses doing?

• MOST NOTHING AT ALL !!!!
• but some.
• driver handbooks
• hows my driving?
• licence checks
• negative penalties/positive incentives
• crash data analysis
• driver assessment
• DRIVER TRAINING

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Yes, OK BUT.

• managing occupational road risk is not driver
  training.

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Managing occupational road risk means

• developing a
• risk management approach,
• i.e. putting in place the
• policies, people, procedures
• to
• work the problem !!

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Using the HSG65 framework

• A 1. define policy
  objectives
• U 2. organise and train
• D 3. plan and implement
• I 4. measure performance
• T 5. review and feedback

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Using risk assessment

• To help managers and/or drivers understand-
• 1. How, when, who, how bad etc?
• 2. Whether existing controls adequate or more
  needed?
• 3. Which risks to tackle first?

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Generic risk assessment

• Review risk enhancing features of
• journey tasks
• vehicles
• drivers

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Some key risk factors

• Journey task (speed? fatigue? routeing? weather,
  night/day?)
• Vehicle (fit for purpose? properly maintained?
  Additional features?)
• Driver ( age, experience? fitness/eyesight/stress?
  crashes/points? attitudes/competence?)

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Preferred approaches to risk control

• meeting without moving
• change/mix mode
• reduce journeys/mileage
• reduce hours/distances
• optimise schedules
• plan safer routes
• avoid adverse conditions
• specify safer vehicles
• ensure maintenance
• assess driver fitness
• reduce distractions
• alcohol/drugs policies
• assess driver competence
• prioritised driver training

• 1. eliminate
• 2. reduce
• 3. isolate
• 4. control
• 5. adapt

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Supported by

• Training for line-managers
• Information, guidance and supervision
• Performance targets/timescales
• Emergency procedures/personal safety
• Monitoring (from licence/vehicle checks to black
  boxes to hows my driving?)
• Crash/near-hit reporting/investigation
• Awards/incentives etc.

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In-house policies needed for

• Speed (all staff to comply with limits)
• Combating fatigue (preparation for driving,
  mileage limits, caff/napping etc)
• Night/adverse weather driving (avoidance)
• Vehicle specs/maintenance (fit for person/purpose
  etc)
• Driver fitness (stress, ill health, eye sight..)
• Drugs/alcohol (including non- prescription
  medicines)
• Mobile phones etc etc (no mobile when mobile!)
• Driver competence (higher grades for higher risk
  drivers?)

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Data, data, data

• Fleet profile
• Vehicles (by type)
• Drivers (status, age, gender, experience,
  enforcement, training etc)
• Journeys/miles
• Accidents/incidents
• Severities
• Causes
• Costs (insured/uninsured)

• Accidents/incidents
• Reference
• Claim? (claim no)
• Incident date/time
• Vehicle type/reg no
• Driver (name/gender/age)
• Location
• Collision type
• Blameworthy?
• Costs

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Three key steps

• 1) Where are we now?
• Vehicles, drivers, miles, crashes, causes, costs?
• Management system (policy, organisation,
  planning, monitoring, review)?
• 2) Set up a joint team (HS, HR, Fleet, SRs
  etc)
• 3) Develop an action plan to
• develop management system,
• assess risks, prioritise interventions
• set standards, targets, timescales etc
• implement
• monitor, review and feed back lessons learned

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Team working and partnership

• Professionals
• Drivers and safety reps
• Insurers/brokers (e.g. crash data feedback)
• Vehicle providers etc
• Local road safety organisations
• Sector peers
• MORR service providers

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RoSPA and MORR where next?

• Lobbying HSC/DfT to establish Dykes MkII ORSA,
  membership, research group etc
• European liaison/international comparisons
• Focusing on best practice via ORSA
• Lobbying to make MORR a higher priority
• Meeting without moving
• More MORR seminars/public speaking etc
• Progress review?

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Government must

• Accept WRRS is a major issue
• Increase HSE resources for WRRS
• Facilitate performance benchmarking
• Link WRRS and site transport safety agendas
• Enforce where necessary
• Respond to worker/public complaints
• Ensure liaison in crash investigations
• Take high profile prosecutions
• Lead the WRRS research agenda
• Take a lead as exemplar employer

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Some useful websites

• www.rospa.com (go occupational safety)
• www.orsa.org.uk
• www.morr.org.uk
• www.hse.gov.uk/roadsafety
• www.airso.org.uk
• www.roadsafe.com
• www.pacts.org.uk
• www.brake.org.uk
• www.larsoa.org
• www.rospa.com/drivertraining

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Challenge everyone to