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@Oliver Schick
You're spot on about the importance of H&S in this area. FORS doesn't do much in that regard. What's happened is that the Met traffic division have retained their H&S powers, albeit without that cancelled Mayoral funding, and moved it to the Commercial Vehicle Unit. It's not the worst outcome, although it still means a shortfall in funding.
I'm not sure what you can do as a project engineer, not my area at all, but if it becomes best practice to request such things, it is certainly worth ensuring that all lorry drivers of companies you use have had cycle training (not such an unusual thing these day, following LB Lambeth's influential initiative with its own drivers) and it certainly helps if the company have had input from the CVEU/CVU, although how exactly that works in practice, I don't know. You can contact RoadPeace or the LCC about it.