The report estimates last year between 750 and 1,000 people died in road accidents linked to their work.
The committee claims the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) does not examine the ‘vast majority' of work-related deaths because they occur on the roads.
The report says: "The Government should review the role of the HSE with regard to road safety to ensure it fulfils its unique role in the strategy beyond 2010."
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) welcomes the report. Its head of road safety, Kevin Clinton, said: "We have been campaigning about managing occupational road health for more than 10 years and we believe the HSE could have a much greater part in this."
He added that employers have a role to play as well. "It is important to make the correct selection of vehicles so employees are using the right car or van for the job they have to do. But employers also need people, policies and procedures in place to manage occupational road risk as part of their mainstream health and safety policies."
Work-related road deaths ignored
More needs to be done to investigate deaths in work-related accidents, the House of Commons Transport Committee said today.
