Seat Belts

August 2025

Driver Managers – improve your understanding

Our monthly fleet focus delves deeper into some of the key road safety topics to improve your understanding, with free resources for you to share with your drivers.

Each month’s topic sits in a library so, as the library grows each month, you can access a bank of resources at any time to help you improve driver safety in your organisation.

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Your Drivers – Your Responsibility

Your call to action:

Make sure you’ve got the policies you need in place to ensure your drivers know that they must always be wearing a seat belt.
Make sure everyone involved is aware of their responsibilities – including managers & supervisors.
Don’t be afraid to challenge drivers about wearing their seat belts.

Seat Belts

Driving is for most people the most dangerous activity they can do.

We know that in the great majority of cases the initial cause of a crash is around driver behaviours – and drivers not wearing seat belts can of course massively change the outcome of an incident.

It’s fundamental that as an organisation and as a manager or owner that you are confident that your drivers know the important safety reasons as to why they should wear a seat belt, and their legal obligation.

Seat belts should be a mandatory fleet policy. Every driver should buckle up and be safe. It’s not just about being safe while driving – it’s a legal requirement. Failure to wear a seat belt could mean the driver may incur penalty points, and in the case of a serious incident, those consequences could also affect the company.

So how confident are you that your drivers are wearing their seat belts?

Legal Insight: Seat Belts

Seat belts – are you covering this in your driver policies?

Criminal motoring law liability will rest with the driver or adult passenger who chooses not to wear a belt, but if you are an operator of fleet vehicles or fleet manager, you should still exercise your duty of care to those who drive for their work.

Read this month’s insight on employer’s responsibilities on seat belts and driver safety here.