For any site where goods vehicles arrive and leave: warehouses, manufacturing sites and small engineering works where lorries come in, things get loaded and unloaded, and people walk about on the same ground as moving vehicles and plant.
Seven areas, from site layout through to visiting drivers.
Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, regulation 17
Segregating pedestrians from vehicles, one-way systems, designated reversing areas, and signage and floor markings.
PUWER 1998, regulations 5, 6 and 28; LOLER 1998, regulation 9
Pre-use checks, planned maintenance, inspection, thorough examination of lifting equipment, and devices that improve the driver's view.
Approved Code of Practice L117, rider-operated lift trucks
Basic training, specific job training and familiarisation on your site, then written authorisation to operate.
Exclusion zones, load security checks and controlling vehicle movement during the operation.
Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, regulation 17
Safe positioning, standard hand signals and a competence record for anyone marshalling reversing vehicles.
The single-topic pack for vehicle marshals →Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, section 3
Discharging the duty owed to people who are not employees, including delivery and collection drivers.
Reporting part: RIDDOR 2013
Weekly walk round, quarterly review, accident and near-miss recording, and reporting what the law requires to be reported.
The full document set.
Risks, law and the full range of PHW products for goods in and goods out sites in one place. Warehouses have their own page.
Up to four of your people assessed for competence in one day, on your own site and machines, with minimum downtime. Plus a written safe-system pack for each topic.
HSE prosecutions in this line of work.
£146,700 · 2026-05-22
A yard operative unclipping a trailer curtain was struck by a reversing forklift's wheel, suffering multiple fractures and a de-gloving injury.
Read the case →£134,000 + £4,908 costs · 2026-04-10
A worker's leg, trapped in a gap in a roller deck, was struck by a skid sliding from a delivery trailer while unloading, leading to a through-knee amputation.
Read the case →£24,000 + £4,777 costs · 2026-03-11
A telehandler reversed into a worker sorting waste, crushing him against a wall and causing multiple fractures and permanent loss of sight in one eye.
Read the case →