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COMPLIANCE WITH CURRENT LEGISLATION If you employ any persons in your organisation then you must comply with current legislation, failure to do so can lead you open to fines, prohibition notices, improvement notices, court cases and serious personal charges to be brought against you

Health And Safety at Work Act 1974 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. Management of the Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 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. The Workplace (Health, Safety And Welfare) Regulations 1992 These regulations cover a wide range of basic health, safety and welfare issues including traffic routes for vehicles within the workplace. Road Traffic Acts Supported by the Hi-way Code 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. EC Drivers Hours Rules, UK Drivers Hours Rules Tacograph Regulations. The Road Transport (Working Times) regulations 2005 It is the drivers and employers responsibility to ensure compliance with drivers 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 a lot simpler but they are more refined in capturing data. The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1996 Provides information regarding the safety of loads on vehicles, and the provision, conformity and type of lamps etc fitted to vehicles. Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 The act introduces an important new option for certain very serious senior management failures whcih 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 seperate health and safety offences.

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