Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Coronavirus

(asked on 19th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve access by haulage workers to (a) toilet facilities, (b) drive-throughs and (c) other essential services during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 25th February 2021

The Secretary of State has written to all English Motorway Service Area operators stressing the importance of providing as many facilities as possible to Heavy Good Vehicles (HGV) drivers including food and washing facilities, while adhering to public health guidelines.

In addition, we have published a signed letter with Sarah Albon, CEO of the Health and Safety Executive, to remind businesses of their obligations under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, to provide suitable toilet and hand washing facilities to drivers visiting their premises.

We have also launched a number of pilots of rapid workplace testing for transport operators to lay the groundwork for a wider roll-out of testing across the transport sector. The criteria for joining the workplace testing programme has now been expanded to businesses with more than 50 employees, boosting the availability of rapid testing further.

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