Guidance

Health and safety arrangements: management of workplace transport

Sets out the health and safety standards we expect prisons to achieve, with guidance to supports the management of risks associated with workplace vehicle movement.

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This particular set of arrangements bring together and update a range of national guidance on the management of the risk of workplace transport in public sector prisons and establish the standards and good practice elements to be achieved at local level in managing this significant risk.

They do not extend to the management of driver and vehicle safety where driving is being undertaken on public roads by HMPPS employees for work purposes (known as Occupational Road Risk). They do not extend to unpowered vehicles.

Published 16 March 2020
Last updated 11 January 2023 + show all updates
  1. Framework updated.

  2. First published.