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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Include traffic accidents in work-related injury figures, says IOSH  Work-related road traffic accidents (RTAs) should be included in official statistics on the number of people killed or injured in the workplace, a health and safety body has urged. The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) believes work-related RTAs should be recorded and recognised under RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995). Richard Jones, head of policy and public affairs at IOSH, says: "Employers have a moral and legal responsibility to look after their employees every mile of their business trips. "If the government insisted work-related road traffic accidents were reported as part of RIDDOR, employers would know more detail about accidents that commonly take place." As a result, he argues companies would be able to reduce the number of accidents, which could also mean a reduction in the number of people seeking advice from a personal injury lawyer in Southampton. In the UK, one-in-three company drivers have an accident each year, while up to a third of RTAs are work-related. Roger Bibbings, occupational safety adviser at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, recently suggested that occupational road risk is "not being addressed by employers as [a] mainstream health and safety issue". Posted by Paul Stevens 
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