FORS Toolkit updated for the new FORS V6 standard
The FORS standard has been updated to version 6.0 which means all businesses who are currently compliant with this scheme will need to make some updates to ensure compliance with the updated standard which has some new requirements relating to documentation that will need to be prepared as evidence for compliance.
The FORS scheme has been regularly updated since it was launched and with each update the documentation requirements and documentary evidence required for compliance has been increased. These ever increasing documentation requirements make complying with this scheme, which is intended to improve road safety, a very time-consuming administrative exercise requiring a huge amount of time an effort to ensure all the documentation requirements are met.
Our toolkit can help companies meet these extensive documentation requirements by providing the extensive list of policies and simplified documents for driver sign-off's and declarations while also covering each clause of the standard in the various procedures included in a single and simple to use manual.
Avoid the pain and pitfalls of FORS compliance by using our FORS toolkit!
The Changes
Some of the main changes to our FORS toolkit to meet the FORS V6 standard;
Driver Declarations
The updated standard requires additional declarations to be signed by drivers and a number of new forms have been added to facilitate getting these declarations documented, New forms allow FORS, Collisions, Licence endorsements and medical declarations to be collected on individual forms or collected together on a single sign-off form (F-FORS2);
- F-FORS1 Driver FORS Declaration
- F-FORS2 Driver FORS Declaration-Combined
- F-HS33 Driver Health Declaration
- F-HS34 Driver Collision Declaration
- F-HS35 Driver Declaration
Other Updates
There are also various other updates which have led to some changes to various procedures included within the FORS manual and also to some other documents.
The main changes to the standard;
- Slight change to vehicles register to include details of dormant operating centres
- Amendment of procedure to state that licence or permit revocations will be reported to FORS
- Inspection procedure to reference leased and loaned vehicles
- Procedure for walkaround checks amended to state must be competent to repair minor defects
- Some change to licence checking procedure
- Procedure for checking driver hours now includes information on secondary employment
- Some amendments to sample risk assessments