COVID-19 Transport Toolkit #2 – Essential Drivers
Essential Drivers
Many business offering essential services are now operating at, or even above, maximum capacity. While there are currently temporary relaxations of regulations in areas such as drivers’ hours, this does not reduce your duty of care responsibilities to manage work-related road risk. In this video we look at the challenges around maintaining safety critical policies such as the management of driver fatigue as well as issues around driver recruitment, driver eligibility and sanitisation where multiple employees may be using the same vehicle.
Further Resources
DVSA: Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on drivers’ hours relaxations
DfT, FCO: Advice for the international freight transport industry
DfT, DVSA: Driver CPC changes for essential drivers
DfT: Employing people to drive
Driver Metrics: Best practice in recruiting safer drivers
Driver Metrics: How to Recruit Safe Drivers (White Paper)
HSE: Arrangements for driver welfare and hours of work during the coronavirus outbreak
