Dykes Report

The Government's national road safety strategy (Tomorrow's Roads: Safer for Everyone") set targets for reducing the number of people killed and injured in road crashes by 2010:

  • 40% reduction in number of people killed or seriously injured
  • 50% reduction in number of children killed or seriously injured
  • 10% reduction in slight casualty rate

As part of the Strategy, the independent Work Related Road Safety Task Group was formed to examine the scale of work-related road accidents. The Group concluded that “between 25% and 33% of all serious and fatal road traffic incidents involve someone who was at work at the time.”

It recommended that Government and the Health and Safety Commission take measures to reduce at-work road traffic incidents. Their key proposal was that “existing health and safety law should be applied to on-the-road work activities and that employers should manage road risk in the same way as they manage other occupational health and safety risks”.

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