Driving for Work Compliance: What Ireland's 2026 HSA Inspection Campaign Means for Employers
Ireland’s Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has launched a nationwide inspection campaign focused on driving for work compliance, and it’s a timely signal for employers across construction, manufacturing, healthcare and local authorities. From July 2026, HSA inspectors are visiting workplaces to check not just whether driving is mentioned in a safety statement, but whether it is genuinely risk assessed and controlled.
The campaign focuses on three practical questions. Is driving for work included as a hazard in your safety statement? Has a specific risk assessment been carried out for journeys, vehicle use and driver fatigue? And are control measures, such as vehicle checks and journey planning, actually documented rather than assumed?
For many organisations, this is a genuine grey area. Driving risk often sits between HR, fleet administration and site safety, and the records needed to prove compliance can be scattered across different systems, or missing entirely.
A structured HSEQ platform removes that ambiguity. With FlexManager, driving for work can be documented as a formal hazard using Risk Assessment and Job Hazard Analysis tools, while Employee Audits and Task Manager keep vehicle checks, driver training and corrective actions visible in one place, ready for review at any time.
So, could your organisation show an HSA inspector exactly how driving for work is assessed and controlled, today? If you’re not certain, it’s worth finding out before an inspection does it for you. Book a FlexManager demo to see how our platform brings driving for work compliance together with the rest of your health and safety management.
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