Health & Safety and Vehicle Safety

The Health and Safety information discussed in the documents below refers to the safe use of vehicles.

Managing vehicle safety at the workplace
In the driving seat
Reversing Vehicles
Parking Large Goods Vehicles (LGV) safely
Safe unloading of steel stock

Modelling of dense gas dispersion in tunnels
This study concerns the transport of dangerous goods through tunnels and, in particular, considers how an incident involving a release of dense gas in a road tunnel would develop and how it could be considered in a risk assessment.

New requirements for the transport of explosives by road
Examines the changes envisaged from the adoption of the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road ADR 2001 into domestic legislation.

Vehicle driver behaviour at level crossings
Quarry vehicle access and egress : an ergonomics study
Sheeting and unsheeting of non-tipper lorries : a health and safety
scoping study
Safety of roll containers
data on the transport of dangerous substances
Review of workplace control measures to reduce risks arising
from the movement of vehicles.Phase 1 & Phase 2

Aimed to obtain information about workplace transport safety from organisations of varying size and industry and divided into two sections, this research marks the completion of phase I. One hundred companies were randomly selected from each identified industry sector; these were of varying size (number of employees) and were operating from premises of different age

The security of cross loaded round timber
Examines whether current methods of transport for cross loaded round timber were appropriate and safe including safe to staff and other road users.

Transport at work: Rollover of lorries transporting paper reels
Aimed to review the rollover risk in the light of current regulations and best practice, by theoretical and practical analysis of the real-life operations of a haulage company specialising in paper reels and paper products.