April 2025

Each month we will be sharing our monthly Fleet Safety Focus Update with you so that, as part of your partner commitment, you can raise awareness among your colleagues, members, and supply chains in your internal and external communications, blogs, social posts, emails and newsletters.

You can signpost this month’s resources by sharing this link: Fleet Safety Focus – Fitness to Drive & Medical Conditions

If you’d like to use our wording for your communications, please feel free to copy and paste the text below:

Copy and paste the text below and use in your emails and newsletters – please ensure the links in the copy are live and signposting to: https://www.drivingforbetterbusiness.com/fleet-safety-focus-monthly-update/fitness-to-drive-medical-conditions/

Driving for Better Business – new fleet safety focus update

Fitness to Drive

Driving is for the 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 behaviour with distraction, drug, alcohol and substance impairment, fatigue and medical conditions at the root of most crashes.

It’s vital therefore that as an organisation and as a manager or owner you are confident that your drivers are fit to drive.

So, how confident are you that your drivers aren’t carrying any medical conditions which could affect their driving? How confident are you that they aren’t dangerously fatigue or impaired?

Driving for Better Business in collaboration with the National Highways Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention Team are providing free to access resources to help those who manage and employ drivers. Their Fleet Safety Focus Updates cover an important area every month. This month’s update focuses on Fitness to Drive and Driver Medical Conditions that you have a responsibility to manage.

It includes a link to a file of useful resources for you to download and share with your drivers, including:

• An article to share with your drivers on Fitness to Drive
• Short safety messages to send to your drivers on their devices
• Safe Loading posters for your staff noticeboards
• Information sheets from our Van Driver Toolkit on Driver Medical Conditions and Fitness to Drive

Access this month’s Fleet Safety Focus and watch the video here.