Setting hire standards

摘要

EMPLOYMENT agencies throughout the UK supply drivers for haulage companies. This workforce is a valuable resource: a phone call away and very low maintenance. They will turn up at short notice with no idea of what the next job entails. These drivers fit their agency work round other interests and it follows that they work when they can, so may be tempted to drive when an employed driver - through injury, sickness or fatigue - would not. This is a serious health and safety concern, as is stress and lack of training, which are endemic in the agency driver workforce. It should be a worry for the agencies themselves, but it should aiso be a concern for any business that is interested in the safety standards of its supply chain and of those taking to the road in its name.