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England rugby star Joe Marler explains it’s not a weakness to seek help when you’re struggling.
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CALM Driver: Joe Marler
CALM Driver is our way of helping you get support information to your commercial vehicle drivers, so they know there’s someone here to talk to, every day, if they’re struggling.
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CALM Driver: Man v Vehicle
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We talk readily about our physical health, so why should mental health be any different? We hope the information on this page might help to start a conversation.
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Professional Drivers Mental Health
The growing number of vans on the nation’s roads means a growing number of new van drivers. What are the challenges they face, and what can employers do to ensure that van drivers – many of whom are young or inexperienced – remain safe on the roads? This session was recorded at The Health &...
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Van Driver Safety – Addressing the Human Factors of Risk
The transport and logistics industry typically covers off fatigue risk by adhering to hours of service legislation. In this session we’ll explain why that approach could be flawed and how your organisation could gain from paying a little more attention to sleep duration and quality.. This session...
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The importance of sleep for commercial driver wellbeing and safety
AES also takes an active interest in driver welfare and mental health. Drivers have accommodation provided after long journeys, so they do not drive when tired. Both senior managers have taken mental health awareness training, so they know how to offer appropriate support.
“A van is a tool....
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AES – Driver Wellbeing
This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2021 and features Andrew Brown - Partnerships Director, CALM
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Supporting the wellbeing of van drivers
This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2021 and features Daniel Jones - UK Training Manager, Dtec
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The increasing problem of drug driving at work
This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2021 and features Dr Paul Jackson - Director, Fresh Air Training
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Driver fatigue – Lessons from a successful company prosecution
This session was recorded at The Health & Safety Event 2021 and features Stephen Dethick, Driver Hire; Tony Greenidge, IAM RoadSmart; Dr Julie Gandolfi - DriverMetrics and is chaired by Simon Turner, Driving for Better Business
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Panel Discussion – Building and Maintaining a Culture of Safe Driving
Work-related road risk is a major factor in considering driver welfare – and driver welfare affects road risk. The safety ‘imperative’, as Paul calls it, is managed jointly between the Group Fleet Manager Scott Logan, the Training Manager Alan Brookes and Craig Williams with the Health and...
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WJ Group – Driver Welfare
“Our behaviour and actions influence our culture and the community’s perception of us as an organisation,” says Craig. “We, in common with all fleet operators, have a significant number of incidents caused by poor behaviour.”
The company has taken action to improve driver behaviour...
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WJ Group – Driver Behaviour
Simon Morgan heads up all corporate health and safety, including all workforce and rail passenger risk. Although this is a dizzyingly broad remit, he recognises that driving is still one of the organisation’s key risk areas to manage.
While its engineers are very well versed in the health and...
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Network Rail – Proper Governance
Network Rail has created control processes and also a process definition document which looks at organisation, responsibility and accountability, data collection and objectives. Road risk sits within health and safety, one of Network Rail’s 16 core processes. A proper governance structure means...
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Network Rail – Good Governance
Network Rail is very conscious of the risk of fatigue, as its workers often fix railway lines at night when services are naturally reduced.
“In principle we would like to be able to analyse our shift patterns to see if we can lower the risk of driver fatigue,” he says. “We are currently...
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Network Rail – Fatigue
Auto Windscreens operates an emergency out of hours service, however the number of night-time call-outs has shrunk considerably, as while customers can book work 24/7 through the service centre, most wait to book the next day.
This eliminates the issues of night-time driver fatigue or broken...
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Auto Windscreens – Driver Fatigue
Did you know?
1 in 5 accidents are caused by tiredness.
Peak times for fatigue-related crashes are within the hours of 02.00-06.00 and 14.00-16.00.
Sleeping just 4-5 hours a night for a week impairs performance to the same extent as being legally over the alcohol limit.
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Brake Road Safety Week: Van Driver Toolkit Driver Fatigue