Course Duration: 30+ minutes

This online training course provides an awareness of the risk assessment process for workplace transport. Moving vehicles are one of the most common causes of fatal accidents in the UK each year. Understanding how to conduct risk assessments is vital to preventing such accidents from occurring.
This programme looks at how to evaluate the risks to the health and safety of those on site from mobile equipment and vehicles. Whether workplace transport is operated by employees, employers, visitors or the self-employed, they must be suitably controlled to reduce the risk.
Course Outline
This workplace transport safety risk assessment course covers the following sections:
- Understanding risk assessments
- Step 1: Look for the hazards
- Step 2: Decide who might be harmed & how
- Step 3: Evaluate risk & decide on precautions
- Step 4: Record your findings
- Step 5: Review your assessment
- Making improvement
Learning Outcomes of Workplace Transport Risk Assessment Training
By taking this online training, users will have a greater awareness of:
- Main principles of undertaking a workplace transport risk assessment
- Range of common hazards and the process of undertaking a risk assessment
- Principles of risk control in this area, which, if implemented can help to ensure safe workplace transport systems
Why Workplace Transport Risk Assessment Training Course is Vital
Each year, between 33 and 51 people are killed in workplace transport-related accidents, more than 1,000 major injuries occur, and about 5,000 other injuries are reported, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
A vast majority of these workplace transportation accidents involve injuries from being struck or run over by moving vehicles, falling from a vehicle due to load or having a vehicle overturn. Most of these accidents are preventable because they often occur due to poor design or poor traffic management systems.
Employers have a legal duty to ensure that their workforce is safe and secure whilst working, and should examine their worksites for any risks.
Benefits of Workplace Transport Safety Course
- IIRSM approved course content and certification
- Helps in controlling workplace transport issues
- Helps to undertake a suitable workplace transport risk assessment to reduce risks
- Interactive and engaging course content
- Mini quizzes to help retention
Course Details
Study length | 30+ minutes |
Approval body | IIRSM Approved |
Target audience | All staff members – awareness |
Format | One interactive module with an end of course test |
Assessment | Online multiple-choice test |
Certification | Online certificate issued immediately on course completion |
Certification validity duration | 3 years |
Frequently Asked Questions
All in all, a transportation safety manager is responsible for ensuring that drivers are following relevant laws and guidelines, and also examining and conducting regular risk assessments to reduce risk.
To become a transportation safety manager, you will need a bachelor’s degree in safety management. A transportation safety manager also must have several years of experience in this or a similar field. Along with this, you should have exceptional interpersonal as well as organisational skills. Since being a manager requires overseeing numerous activities and sometimes many employees.
A transport risk assessment is a process that seeks to identify health and safety hazards in connection with workplace transport. Such a risk assessment helps organisations understand how to take steps to protect their workplace, workers and business operations.
Undertaking a regular risk assessment of workplace transport systems helps employers and managers make the right decisions on how to mitigate any risks in their work environment and ensure everyone’s safety.
Workplace transport can cause serious injury. The most common type of work-related vehicle incidents are:
- Being hit by a moving vehicle
- Falling from a vehicle
- Being crushed, thrown or otherwise injured from a vehicle overturning
- Being injured during vehicle maintenance
Other fatal injuries occur during the following activities:
- Loading & unloading
- Deliveries & collections
- Maintenance & repair
Vehicle-contributed risk factors are risks that derive from the vehicle itself. Poor maintenance or inspection routines can lead to equipment failure, which is always a risk and can become a risk multiplier in other situations.
Some of the common examples of vehicle-contributed factors are:
- Poorly adjusted brakes
- Broken headlights
- Dirty windscreens
- Loose or broken seat belts
- Leaking fuel tank
Human Focus offers the following programmes under the workplace transport toolkit: