National Highways is hosting a one-day national conference covering the key issues commercial fleet operators should focus on to help reduce collisions involving their drivers, and save lives on the roads.
‘Vehicles Don’t Crash – People Do’ will be held at the National Space Centre in Leicester on 21st March 2024.
While the event will naturally appeal to fleet managers and driver managers, National Highways is encouraging anyone to attend who is in a position to influence policy with regard to commercial driver safety, including Health & Safety managers and procurement managers.
Conference chaired by Mark Cartwright,
Head of Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention, National Highways
Agenda
| 08.30 – 09.30 | Delegate registration & exhibition |
| 09.30 | Conference Opens |
| 09.40 – 09.50 | Managing Road Safety as a Health & Safety Issue
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| 09.50 – 10.00 | National Highways Role in Improving Work Related Road Risk
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| 10.00 – 10.20 | Vehicles don’t crash, People do
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| 10.20 – 10.40 | Causation of Fatal Collisions Involving Commercial Vehicles
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| 10.40 – 11.00 | Incident investigation toolkit
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| 11.00 – 11.30 | Refreshments & exhibition |
Mel Clarke -Director of Health, Safety and
Sheena Hague – Director of Road Safety, National Highways
Mark Cartwright – Head of Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention, National Highways
Matt Staton, Head of National Road User Safety Delivery, National Highways 
Kevin Elliott – Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson| 11.30– 11.50 | Driver roadworthiness – what’s under the bonnet
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| 11.50 – 12.10 | The role of occupational health to support driver health
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| 12.10 – 12.30 | Targeting Drowsy Driving for Safer Drivers, Safer Roads: Technology to Culture and Back Again
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| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch & exhibition |
Glen Davies, Managing Director, The Driver Handbook
Nick Pahl, CEO, Society of Occupational Medicine
Clare Anderson, Professor of Sleep and Circadian Science, University of Birmingham| 13.30– 13.50 | Psychological Safety: Lessons from Healthcare and Aviation
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| 13.50 – 14.10 | Railway staff safety – breaking a tradition of 150 years
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| 14.10 – 14.30 | After the Crash: Lessons learned or cycle repeated?
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| 14.30 – 14.40 | Afternoon comfort break |
Rupert Lown, Chief Health and Safety Officer, Network Rail
Saul Jeavons, Director, The Transafe Network| 14.40 – 15.00 | Panel discussion: Learning from other sectors
Panellists: Rupert Lown, Chief Health and Safety Officer, Network Rail; Saul Jeavons, Director, The Transafe Network; Tom Geraghty, Founder & CEO, Iterum Ltd
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| 15.00 – 15.40 | Keynote speaker
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| 15.40 – 15.50 | Closing Thoughts
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| 16.00 (latest) | Conference concludes |
Anne-Marie Penny, Senior Road Safety Policy Adviser, National Highways
Matthew Syed, Author, Journalist and Broadcaster
Meera Neeran MBE, Independent Road Safety