The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) through consultation between the Waste Industry Safety and Health Forum (WISH), and also based on a guidance note produced by the Northamptonshire Local Authority Safety Advisors Group, has recently published a 'best practice' document - Waste and Recycling Vehicles in Street Collection. The document deals with risk assessment, management, reversing and the deployment of agency workers.
The document is written for employers, managers, supervisors and workers to help them remove or reduce the risk of injury caused by waste/recycling collection vehicles operating in the street.
It is deliberately restricted to:
- vehicle issues (but comments on other issues);
- and activities in public access areas (eg street collection, car parks).
The document can be found on the HSE website by clicking the following link:
