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Duty of Care

Helping you take care of your drivers.

We know that occupational road risk is still a major issue facing fleets today. New legislation and increased penalties have led to an even greater of a need for improved management of driver safety on the road.

Our product.

We're working with one of the UK's leading driver training companies, providing a full service online risk management system to help you manage your duty of care obligations. With over 15 year's experience, our supplier is an expert in driver training, assessment and driver awareness schemes throughout the UK. All elements of duty of care are catered for and the risk management services can be tailored to your specific business requirements

Did you know...

Up to a third of all road traffic accidents involve somebody who is at work at the time.
Vehicle accidents cause £10bn loss annually
65% of all vehicles are involved in an accident
70% of companies do not have a formal risk policy
1m UK drivers have 9 points on their licence and are one prosecution away from a ban
56% of companies do not provide driver training.

Source: AA DriveTech

The benefits.

While helping to keep your drivers safe on the road, our product can help to reduce business costs and risk by significantly improving drivers' attitude, behaviour and competence. It provides an auditable record of managing risk showing diligence and control at all times. It manages your duty of care requirements and complies with international best practice on road safety.

It gives you an at-a-glance view of who your high risk drivers are so you can focus any additional solutions towards them first. This also helps you to keep costs down by working with high risk drivers first, instead of using a blanket approach and training all drivers.

The package includes:

Fleet Risk Audit

A formal risk audit for all 'driving for work' activities will help indentify areas of risk exposure and non-compliance.

Our audit helps you to:

Reduce your legal and financial exposure by identifying the risks your fleet faces
Manage your fleet risk via a bespoke action plan
Meet your legal requirements by acting on our recommendations
Achieve optimum cost efficiency by applying best practice in fleet management.

Fleet Risk Manager

An online, occupational road risk portal that enables you to manage your duty of care programme from your desktop.

Key benefits:

A single portal to manage your entire fleet
Driver-focussed and easy to use
All key driver information in one place
Efficient driver communication.

Driver Assessment

Driver assessments are a key component of a comprehensive road risk strategy, as well as helping an organisation meet its duty of care responsibilities. They can take place online, on-road or on paper, depending on your needs.

Our assessments help you to:

Meet your duty of care obligations
Target 'at risk' drivers via bespoke training opportunities to improve driving ability
Reduce the collision rates/vehicle abuse
Reduce fleet operating costs through improved driving skills
Save time by minimising manual intervention
Provide results by reporting on driver's activities
Ensure a continual improvement plan.

Eco-driving Assessment and Top Tips Training

With ever increasing fuel costs and the continuing need to reduce emissions from carbon fuel, the requirement to improve fuel efficiency is now a key operational issue and a critical part of a comprehensive road safety strategy.

Our Eco-driving assessment helps you to:

Assist in managing fuel costs through a series of improved techniques.
Reduce accident rate/vehicle abuse
Reduce fleet operating costs.

Licence Check

It's important that all employees who drive for work have legal and valid driving licences not only for an employer to meet its duty of care obligations but also to ensure that, in the event of a crash, the employee and employer are fully insured. Licence Check is an online service that captures a driver's driving licence number and validates it against the DVLA database, which provides details such as points and drink driving offences.

Assess Online

Online individual driver risk assessments are popular because they can target training for 'at risk' drivers, reduce fleet accident rates, resulting in reduced operating costs. The assessments include modules about driver history, knowledge, attitude and skill.

Our online assessment helps you to:

Identify each driver's risk of exposure
Roll out to wider audience in a short amount of time
Provide consistent assessment for the entire business
Be more cost-effective than on-road assessments.

Learn Online

This is a fully interactive online portal that develops a driver's knowledge and challenges their driving attitude and behaviour. It includes subjects such as road signs, hazards and motorway skills.

Key benefits:

Interactive content to engage drivers
Training needs are identified
Cost-effective and available online.

Practical driver training

Practical driver training is normally provided to drivers who have been assessed or identified as being 'at risk'. It addresses the driver's skill and attitude as well as vehicle safety issues.

Key benefits:

Meet your duty of care obligations
Target 'at risk' drivers to improve driving ability
Reduce the collision rates/vehicle abuse by improving driving techniques and awareness
Reduce fleet operating costs through improved driving skill
Provide online results.

Fleet Risk Workshops

These workshops can be delivered face-to-face or online to all levels of driver or manager. They communicate safety messages and improve driver knowledge and are a successful; road risk reduction programme.

Road Safety Events

These events are off-site and are an excellent environment for delivering valuable driver training messages to groups of employees in a more relaxed environment.