If your business runs vans, company cars, LGVs or relies on staff driving their own vehicles for work, you carry a legal duty of care for road risk — even without an HGV or PSV Operator Licence. This free Driver Safety Self-Assessment walks you through 64 questions across 8 areas — your organisation, drivers, vehicles, journeys, towing and more — with guidance on every question, and gives you an instant duty-of-care score, your priority gaps and a printable report. Nothing is stored.
Most road-risk attention goes to HGV and PSV operators. But the majority of people who drive for work are not lorry or coach drivers — they are sales reps, engineers, carers, delivery and trades staff in vans, company cars and their own vehicles. The law does not let those employers off the hook.
Under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, you must assess and manage the risks to employees while they drive for work — and HSE's guidance Driving at work (INDG382) makes clear this includes staff using their own cars and vans on company business. Get it wrong and the consequences range from HSE enforcement and higher insurance to civil claims and, in the worst cases, corporate manslaughter.
This self-assessment covers the eight areas of a sound work-related road safety system — the same thinking we apply to licensed operators, scaled to any business that has people on the road.
Answer each question Yes (in place), No (not in place) or N/A (doesn't apply). Your score counts only the questions that apply to you — anything marked N/A is excluded. Your answers stay in your browser.
Please answer every question (Yes, No or N/A) to get your result.
FTC helps employers put driving-for-work policies, licence checking, vehicle and grey-fleet controls and journey risk assessment in place — meeting your duty of care and cutting risk and insurance cost.
Get help closing the gaps →It is easy to assume road safety law only bites for the big fleets. In reality, work-related road incidents are one of the leading causes of workplace death and serious injury in the UK — and a large share involve ordinary cars and vans, not lorries. If your people drive for work, the duty of care is yours.
The single biggest blind spot for non-fleet businesses is the grey fleet — staff claiming mileage in their own car. Because the vehicle isn't yours, it's tempting to assume it isn't your problem. Legally, it is: if an employee drives their own car on your business, you are responsible for ensuring it's safe, legal and properly insured for that use. This self-assessment checks exactly that, because it's where employers are most exposed.
The self-assessment shows you where the gaps are. These are the services that close them.
Send us your result or just tell us about your drivers and vehicles, and we'll help you build a driving-for-work and grey-fleet programme that meets your duty of care.
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