The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed that all drivers must be given access to toilets during their working day, following ardent campaigning from both the RHA and Truckers Toilets UK; as well as a re-examination of the workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) regulations 1992 – specifically Regs 20 & 21. This is in addition to paragraph 127 of the HSE guide to workplace transport safety; which state that loading & unloading areas must have easy & safe access to toilets, washing facilities and refreshments.

HSE guidance now states that drivers must have access to welfare facilities in the premises they visit as part of their daily activy.

As well as having implications on employment laws, customers & clients may also be required to provide toilet facilities for drivers; possibly leading to this becoming a contractual provision in commercial agreements.