Employers have a "duty of care" for the safety of employees at work, regardless of the type or size of the business.
There is also a duty of care to others who may be affected by their business activities, which, in the case of driving, means all other road users. You must also provide training to all your workforce, for all work activities.

Employers are required to carry out risk assessments on all activities within the the workplace, making arrangments to implement neccessary measures, appoint competent people and arrange for appropriate information and training.

These regulations cover a wide range of basic health, safety and welfare issues including traffic routes for vehicles within the workplace.

The Highway Code applies to all road users and includes information on signs and markings, road users, the law and driving penalties.

It is an offence for an organisation to set driver schedules which may cause them to break speed limits, misuse tachograph equipment or data, or have payment schemes which incentivise them to do so.

It is the driver's and employer's responsibility to ensure compliance with driver's hours and Tacograph Regulations. They are applicable to goods vehicles in excess of 3.5 tonnes.
Tacographs must be used to record hours of driving, other work, breaks and rest periods. The newer digital tachograph record cards make this task simpler as they are more refined in capturing data.

Provides information regarding the safety of loads on vehicles, and the provision, conformity and type of lamps etc fitted to vehicles.

The act introduces an important new option for certain very serious senior management failures which result in fatality. Prosecutions will be of the corporate body, not individuals, but the ability to prosecute directors or other individuals under health and safety law, or the general criminal law, in appropriate cases, will be unaffected. The coporate body itself and individuals can also still be prosecuted for separate health and safety offences.