Road Distribution Action Group

The Road Distribution Action Group started up in 2002. The group is a partnership between employer groups, trade unions and regulators. The aim of the group is to improve health and safety at work and reduce accidents and ill health in the road haulage and distribution industry by effective liaison between enforcing authorities, employer and employee representatives and others with relevant knowledge and expertise on matters affecting the industry.

Minutes of recent meetings

• 19 September 2007 [58KB]
• 27 March 2007 [57KB]
• 13 November 2006 [52KB]

RDAG working groups

Five working groups have been set up by the main RDAG group.  These working groups aim to identify ways to reduce injuries in the haulage and distribution industry.

1. Fatigue
2. Preventing falling loads
3. Slips and trips
4. Manual handling
5. Falls from vehicles

If you have any ideas or suggestions for any of these groups, or would like to know more about the work being done by these groups, please contact;  haulage@hse.gsi.gov.uk

Current membership of the RDAG:

• Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)
• Freight Transport Association (FTA)
• Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
• Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
• Interactive Driving Systems
• Local Authority Coordinating Office on Regulatory Services (LACORS)
• Association of Pallet Networks (APN)
• Road Haulage Association (RHA)
• Skills for Logistics (SfL)
• Traffic Commissioners
• Transport and General Workers Union (T&G)
• Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW)
• United Road Transport Union (URTU)