Since 2021, customer truck drivers have been involved in six fatal accidents. The following are best practices provided by the Mine Safety and Health Administration to help prevent future accidents.
Best Practices:
✅Provide site-specific hazard awareness training to customers, including commercial over-the-road truck drivers.
✅Alert customer truck drivers to changes in traffic procedures, patterns, or road conditions.
✅Provide fall protection or safe means of access to customers who need to gain access to containers or tankers on their vehicles if there is danger of falling.
✅Provide and maintain a safe location for drivers to tarp their loads.
✅Ensure customers follow proper loading and dumping procedures.
Read more from this safety alert: https://www.msha.gov/customer-truck-drivers-safety-alert