New rules on bin lorries to be introduced in wake of FAI

Crews will be given training in the use of driver controls and stronger health screening measures are to be brought in by Glasgow City Council.

Sheriff John Beckett made 19 recommendations at the conclusion of the FAI.

Five of these were for driver Harry Clarke’s employers and two for all local authorities.

The council said it had already made changes before Sheriff Beckett’s determination. For example, large bin lorries had been removed from pedestrian areas after some people reacted angrily towards them following the crash.

It is also developing “vehicle familiarisation” training for bin lorry crews on the cab controls and is reviewing the the “potential to improve screening for health problems as part of the recruitment process”.

Sheriff Beckett also said councils should buy bin lorries with “advanced emergency breaking systems” or have this system retrofitted.

A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said: “We will implement all of the recommendations and were already working on some of them prior to the publication of the Sheriff’s determination.”