Fit to drive

How can OH practitioners confirm fitness to drive following a driving incident?

Summary:

This case review highlights the perils of overreliance on employee self-reports and how even objective information, such as an acknowledgement of a DVLA notification, needs to be closely scrutinised. Occupational physician Vivake Roddah explains.

The case concerns a vocational driver who was seen by occupational health (OH) for a management referral following a recent at-fault driving incident. The individual worked as a delivery driver, for which group 1 driving standards applied. The driver’s employer had suspended driving duties following the driving incident, pending OH assessment, given its concerns about the employee’s fitness to drive.

At the time of the OH assessment, the driver had already been referred to a sleep clinic by their GP owing to a raised initial …

 

 

Dr Vivake Roddah is an occupational physician at D4Group.

 

Author: Roddah V

Tags driving fitness for work sleep

Occupational Health at Work April/May 2026 (vol. 22/6) pp18-19

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