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Collision at work
16 October 2008
Many workers are required to drive mechanised vehicles in the workplace. Where this occurs, there is a risk mechanized vehicles may collide with each other or other workers going about their duties on foot.
Employers are under a duty to ensure mechanized vehicles using the workplace cannot be driven too fast, and to ensure all the drivers and operators of those mechanized vehicles have been adequately trained in their use.
In accordance with the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 employers are to ensure:
- the workplace be organised in such a way that pedestrians and mechanized vehicles can circulate in a safe manner
- workers on foot and mechanized vehicles may use a traffic route without causing danger to the health and safety of others
- there is sufficient separation of any traffic route for mechanized vehicles from doors or gates or from traffic routes for workers on foot which lead onto that traffic route
- where mechanized vehicles and workers on foot use the same traffic route, there is sufficient separation between them
Should you be injured because you have been involved in a collision involving mechanized vehicles at work, even if you think you were to blame or one of your colleagues was to blame, you may still have a claim for compensation against your employer.
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