The Health and Safety Executive is clamping down on the unsafe reversing of street collection vehicles, and its inspectors will be out in force this year. Speaking to Motor Transport at the opening of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management show in Torquay today, HM principal inspector Paul Harvey said: “We want to see reversing cameras, beacons, high-vis jackets and reversing assistants.
Seventy-percent of fatalities in the
waste management industry involve vehicles, and the bulk are to do with reversing.” Of particular concern to the HSE is the increasing number of recycling vehicles on the
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