Confidence in your fleet safety profile comes from three things. Understanding everything you’re responsible for, making sure everything is managed in line with industry best practices, and having a robust audit trail to prove everything was done correctly. Barrie will talk through the key things required to ensure everything is taken care of, and that your managers, your colleagues and your drivers can have confidence you’re on top of the job. This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2022 and features Barrie Wilson - Commercial Fleet Director, FleetCheck

Dr Gemma Briggs discusses research on the distraction imposed on drivers by mobile phone use, which can help to explain both how and why driving performance deteriorates. Her talk will consider how this research can: – Help those who drive for work, or employ drivers, understand specific issues with phone use – Be used to create evidence-based education for use in the workplace – Be best communicated to drivers in an attempt to achieve behaviour change. This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2022 and features Dr Gemma Briggs – Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Open University

This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2021 and features Dr Paul Jackson - Director, Fresh Air Training

Driver Medicals – what do you need to know? The aim of this article is to provide clarity on exactly what a D4 medical is, its importance for drivers and those who manage drivers, and tips for fleet professionals and driver managers to share on how their drivers can stay healthy in preparation for their next one.

This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2021 and features Stephen Dethick - National Training Manager, Driver Hire Training

We will be presenting three days of expert opinion, good practice and thought leadership in the Driver Safety Zone at the Health & Safety Event 2022. It’s a vital update for safety professionals. The videos will be available after the event and you can sign up to receive those here.

How safe do you think your fleet is today? It’s very easy to think that, because a fleet has been incident free for a while, everything must be fine. That can then lead to complacency, and an incident happening, seemingly out of nowhere. Assess your fleet confidence level with this tool - all you have to do is say how confident you are about six basic statements regarding driver safety.

Our panel discuss all aspects of good practice in driver safety management. This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2022 and features Adrian Walsh – Executive Director of Roadsafe, Dave Conway – IMS & Road Safety Manager of FM Conway, Astrid van Der Burgt – Group Transport Safety Manager of Holcim Group Switzerland, Ashlee Field – Road Safety and Partnerships Manager of DPDgroup UK, John Anderson – National Logistics Director of Tarmac

Hazard perception testing has been part of the driver licensing procedure for 20 years, with considerable reductions in collisions attributed to its introduction. Despite this, hazard perception has yet to become a significant part of fleet drivers’ continuous professional development. This talk will consider the barriers that have previously prevented hazard perception tests becoming more widespread within fleets, and how these issues can be overcome. Specifically, through the tailoring of training and assessment to the vehicles and roles of commercial drivers, we can create tools that are more relevant and acceptable to our target audience. Beyond hazard perception, similar tests can measure the level of risk that is acceptable to drivers, through our Amber Gambler and Tailgating tests. We demonstrate how these tests can be accessed online through our new EsituDrive platform, or delivered in classroom settings – which even include the opportunity to view hazard perception clips in a more immersive environment via a virtual reality headset. This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2022 and features Dr David Crundall – Professor of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University & Co-founder of Esitu Solutions

This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2021 and features Andrew Drewary - Managing Director, Road Safety Smart

The old ways aren’t always the best ways. They are just the way things have always been done and it’s time to make a shift. It is not an easy one. We aren’t just talking about technology and equipment, or conducting ‘behavioural safety training. The Big Shift is about embracing human factors and optimising how we perform within the whole system and culture. It’s about people and how we think and act, our mindset and attitude. We need to make sure you have an environment that is set up to support people to perform at their best, with the capacity to think differently, fail safely and learn fast. Cleartrack Performance will present a high impact session, taking their experience from elite sport and the military, and sharing industry case studies of how to make this shift and applying a human and organisational performance approach within industry. This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2022 and features Mark Soden – Managing Director, Cleartrack Performance

Safety messages need to be effective for people to understand, to remember and to comply. If you really hit the jackpot with your messaging, you can also make your audience into advocates. In this three-part blog on messaging we look at what you say – and how you say it. How we frame those messages makes a difference to how people relate to them.