Case studies

HSE has put together a variety of case studies to help improve workplace transport safety.

Main case studies^[1]
Additional case studies for group discussion

Case study publications

Safety culture and workplace transport (PDF) ^[2]

Case studies for group discussion

The following examples detail the incident, environment and consequences of workplace transport accidents. Each example includes a publication reviewing the incident and a publication with recommendations for improvement.

However, the improvements we suggest are not the only, ideal or complete solutions for these examples. There is no such thing as a perfectly safe site.

Example A

Example B

Accident at indoor bus depot (PDF) ^[5]
Example B - Recommendations (PDF) ^[6]

Example C

Example D

Link URLs in this page

Main case studieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/sitesafe/interactive-case-studies.htm
Safety culture and workplace transporthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/assets/docs/investigation-safety-culture-performance.pdf
Accident when poorly secured load moved during transithttps://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/assets/docs/a-learning-lessons.pdf
Example A - Recommendationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/assets/docs/a-learning-points.pdf
Accident at indoor bus depothttps://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/assets/docs/b-indoor-bus-depot.pdf
Example B - Recommendationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/assets/docs/b-suggestions-for-improvement.pdf
Reversing accident, where site layout was also a factorhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/assets/docs/c-lessons-learnt.pdf
Example C - Recommendationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/assets/docs/c-reversing-accident.pdf
Accident involving fork lift and dump truck, where site layout and visibility were also factorshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/assets/docs/d-fork-lift-dump-truck.pdf
Example D - Recommendationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/workplacetransport/assets/docs/d-recommendations.pdf