Question No: 2024/2266
Question (Thomas Turrell AM) 18th July 2024
The Auditor's conclusion in Audit 23794 that TfL's "Driving at Work" was "Poorly Controlled" is concerning and merits further scrutiny. For the period 6 May 2016 to 31 December 2023, how many collisions occurred involving TfL-owned and TfL-contracted vehicles? In answering, please provide me with a spreadsheet with columns showing the incident date, the name of the TfL Business Unit/contractor, driver status (TfL employee/contractor), borough, severity of injury (fatal, serious, minor, other or none), party injured (driver, passenger, pedestrian, bicycle, 3rd party vehicle) and type of vehicle, including the make & model.
Answer (Sadiq Khan) 30th August 2024
Transport for London’s (TfL’s) first priority is the safety of everyone using and working on the transport network and TfL and I are committed to making London’s streets safer through my ambitious Vision Zero plan, which aims to eliminate deaths and serious injuries from the transport network by 2041.
Please see the requested data attached. These figures are against an average of approximately 9,500 miles per year per vehicle and over approximately 1200 vehicles.
The scope of the audit was to seek assurance that the driving to work requirements of the Safety Health and Environment Management System (SHEMS) are being met. The audit focused on the clarity of the SHEMS content including roles and responsibilities, risk assessment and training in conjunction with the TfL internal company vehicle policy and handbook. The outcome of the audit showed that there were inconsistencies between the online content and the linked company vehicle policy and handbook documents which the auditor deemed poorly controlled. TfL is addressing these inconsistencies and plans to complete all audit actions by September 2024.
