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Logistics and Transport: Sector Plan For Health and Safety: Sector Plan For Health and Safety

The logistics and transport sector contributes £70 billion to the UK economy but has worse-than-average health and safety performance. Issues include high rates of injuries and musculoskeletal disorders, especially among postal and courier workers, as well as work-related road risks that account for 30% of deaths and serious injuries. The Health and Safety Executive aims to improve load security, reduce musculoskeletal disorders, and increase engagement on road safety risks through targeted interventions, regulatory guidance, industry partnerships, and intelligence sharing with other agencies.

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Logistics and Transport: Sector Plan For Health and Safety: Sector Plan For Health and Safety

The logistics and transport sector contributes £70 billion to the UK economy but has worse-than-average health and safety performance. Issues include high rates of injuries and musculoskeletal disorders, especially among postal and courier workers, as well as work-related road risks that account for 30% of deaths and serious injuries. The Health and Safety Executive aims to improve load security, reduce musculoskeletal disorders, and increase engagement on road safety risks through targeted interventions, regulatory guidance, industry partnerships, and intelligence sharing with other agencies.

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Health and Safety

Executive

Sector plan for health and safety:


Logistics and
transport
The sector includes distribution centres, road- The sector contributes around £70 billion to
haulage, postal and courier services, ports and the economy, around 4% of the total, with the
airports. There are around 900 000 people working prospect of further sustained growth.
in logistics alone, with the number involved in road
haulage and ‘final-mile’ delivery activities rising.

Current position

The logistics sector has a worse-than-average record welfare arrangements for delivery drivers and fatigue.
for health and safety performance. Recent Labour
Force Surveys show the non-fatal injuries rate is Traditional industry risks and how to manage them,
almost double the all-industries rate. Similarly, for such as working at height, are well known in the
work-related ill health, the rate of musculoskeletal sector. Less widely recognised issues, such as load
disorders is 50% higher. Both rates are particularly security, are a cause for concern. Poor packing,
high in the postal and courier sub-sector, but nearly securing and marking can cause significant risks
all the sub-sectors have higher-than-average rates, during transit and then again at the delivery site.
especially for injuries. There is an ongoing focus on work-related road risk,
Other important health issues can be grouped around with a March 2015 Transport Safety Commission
the effects of the driving environment, including report suggesting that 30% of deaths and serious
injuries on the roads occur in the course of work.

Outcomes and priorities

The sector will be a priority for HSE in order to achieve the following outcomes:

• Improve the securing of loads

• Reduce the rate of ill health caused by


musculoskeletal disorders

• Increase engagement on work-related


road risk
Health and Safety
Executive

What HSE will do to #HelpGBworkwell

We will secure effective management and control of risk by:

• delivering targeted interventions on the highest-risk areas, with a particular focus on load security
and/or musculoskeletal disorders;
• adapting flexibly and proportionately to technological developments.

We will provide an effective regulatory framework by:

• developing HSE’s regulatory position on work-related road risk, incorporating insight, research
and industry intelligence;
• reviewing and refreshing HSE’s guidance on work-related road risk;
• working with other regulatory agencies to make best use of existing legal frameworks relating to
driving and the highway to address work-related road risk.

We will lead and engage with others to improve workplace health and safety by:

• encouraging and supporting strategic industry initiatives that show leadership in tackling key problems;
• improving access to welfare facilities for visiting delivery drivers by encouraging and supporting
industry initiatives;
• sharing intelligence with other key partners such as the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA);
• re-energising the adoption of under-used solutions for tackling musculoskeletal disorders and
identifying any new problems and solutions.

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