if they cant be arsed to have a banks men
then don’t risk it
Don’t wanna bang the H&S drum to much but the store should have a written risk assessment for the movement of delivery vehicles in the car parks …in the risk assessment there should a basic requirement for a members of staff who are trained banks man / persons…
Should you arrive and this persons are not available or isn’t prepared to assist, then your quite within your rights no to refuse to move your vehicle any further until such time as they are…why should you take the risk
and if the store staff make to much issue ask to see the risk assessment 
and remind them of there health and safety requirements under UK law…Surely you’ll be met with a rush of assistance 
emwmarine:
…it doesn’t really seem intrinsically safe. Yet I haven’t heard of any big accidents ever.
You’ve answered your own question.
What’s happened to just living life, getting on with stuff. There’s already far too much H&S ■■■■■■■■ and even more stuff that isn’t H&S but is claimed to be H&S ■■■■■■■■.
Sorry for the slight hijack here but…most new large cars now have reversing cameras.
All quarry trucks, including artics, have reversing cameras.
At the CV Show this year there will be umpteen companies selling forward-facing (and, eeek, cab interior-facing) cameras, which will relay accident and nearmiss footage etc straight back to base.
Sales of journey-recording cameras in the UK are projected to top 1 million this year.
And still urban artics and other delivery vehicles don’t have reversing cameras…why?
GasGas:
Sales of journey-recording cameras in the UK are projected to top 1 million this year.
A lot of those sales are nothing to do with safety and all to do with someone hoping to capture something that will go viral on Facebook or YouTube.
Couldn’t agree more…but the ‘professional’ systems being hawked to fleet operators seem to be more to do with attributing blame after an accident than preventing accidents…funny old world.
Almost Nothing is 100% safe.
When you’re reversing a lorry in a car park, whether it’s a rigid or an artic, why would you want a camera ? Don’t you have enough to look at with one pair of eyes.
As a delivery driver all you can do is be vigilant, stick your hazards on etc etc etc, but if some eejit wants to put themselves in harms way then so be it. Some folk are better removed from the gene pool,preferably before they’ve bred.
Swampey2418:
Don’t wanna bang the H&S drum to much but the store should have a written risk assessment for the movement of delivery vehicles in the car parks …in the risk assessment there should a basic requirement for a members of staff who are trained banks man / persons…Should you arrive and this persons are not available or isn’t prepared to assist, then your quite within your rights no to refuse to move your vehicle any further until such time as they are…why should you take the risk
and if the store staff make to much issue ask to see the risk assessment
This! The only response to give to those that refuse to assist. The driver didn’t design the delivery point nor did he decide the type of vehicle to be used for the SAFE delivery of the goods/services etc the time of day or anything else but the list of factors to consider is long.
The only control the driver has is wether it is (in his ‘professional’ opinion) safe or not to complete the task at the time within the parameters that present themselves.
If in doubt blow it out - nothing to do with balls or anything like it.
Supermarket work (working inside them) fries your brain. I managed them for 18 years. I now drive trucks. 'Nuff said.
I’ve had very few issues with pedestrians,the issues are normally with car drivers who are in a rush too buy that loaf of bread,paper ,pint of milk ,they totally ignore reversing bleepers,hazards,shop workers watching you in ,then look gob- smacked when a irate truck driver gives them a ear - bashing 