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Lose your PSV licence, lose your livelihood. 600 prosecutions each week. Police and your employer can test for drugs at any time.
D.tec International
Lose your PSV licence, lose your livelihood poster
As lockdown is lifted, make sure your fleet housekeeping is in order to improve your chances of business survival.
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Make sure your fleet housekeeping is in order
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...
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Making The Big Shift in Safety Culture
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...
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Managing Drivers – Achieving Safety Buy-in
COVID-19 has changed the road environment around the world and created additional challenges for fleet managers.
D.tec International
Managing road risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Article covering vehicle downtime, opportunity cost, environmental footprint and the benefits of ‘rightsizing’ your fleet.
Enterprise
Managing the hidden risks of commercial fleets
Vehicle related incidents and collisions on private sites such as distribution centres, construction sites and haulage depots are common and can be extremely serious, leading to intrusive and public investigations and prosecutions. Chis will be looking in detail at common scenarios, consequences...
Driving for Better Business
Managing Vehicle Related Safety on Private Sites
Matthew Avery, Director of Insurance Research at Thatcham, believes that some of the most exciting automotive developments are heading our way.
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Matthew Avery of Thatcham Research on Vehicle Safety Technology
Initially on-road incidents spiked as the drivers learned to report every vehicle-related incident, down to the merest scratch. “It seems counter-intuitive but it has given us a sound baseline for charting improvement,” says Joe.
The company has now seen both the number and value of claims...
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Metworks – Business Benefits
It’s essential that Joe repeats key themes each year for their drivers, as housing associations have a high turnover of staff, particularly near London which has several other associations all keen for skilled workers. The Metworks drivers are primarily maintenance operatives and so driving is...
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Metworks – Driver Communication
Joe has banned mobile phone use even by Bluetooth, athough each vehicle is equipped with Bluetooth technology. “I don’t remove the Bluetooth because I don’t want to inadvertently drive someone to make a call by holding the phone,” he says.
“However, we make it very clear: calls can...
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Metworks – Driver Distraction
The highest risk drivers are licence-checked, and trained, more frequently.
“We use Licence Bureau training modules, which take drivers through basic training and a series of questions. Depending on how they perform, they will be directed to further modules to address their gaps in knowledge,”...
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Metworks – Driver Training
The first thing Joe did was to analyse the fleet’s weaknesses. Although he has since taken steps to address these weaknesses, it is an ongoing process and still informs the company’s training schedule. “We have created a programme with our training provider which targets specific areas,” he...
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Metworks – Gap Analysis
Metworks are minimising driving time by ensuring that jobs are given to the most local driver and any corporate meetings which can be done by Teams are. “Quite simply the less they drive, the less at risk they are,” says Joe.
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Metworks – Journey Management
Drivers are risk-assessed continuously. Joe studies a list of criteria including: Telematics, Loading, Speeding, Productivity, Out of hours use of the van: If drivers are not on call-out duty, this is flagged, Licence validation: all changes to licences must be reported, Induction and training...
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Metworks – Risk Assessment
Metworks has no depots, only offices and so its operatives carry everything they need in the back of the van. It was initially a challenge to impress upon drivers that the respon-sibility for staying within proscribed weight limits was their personal responsibility. However, on-board scales, which...
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Metworks – Safe Loading
Metworks uses Teletrac Navman. “We’ve seen our greatest benefit through the use of telematics,” he says. “Speeding has reduced by 75%. With less speeding, we’ve seen lower vehicle maintenance costs, and lower fuel costs, both down by around 10%.”
Joe is very aware that risk-taking in...
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Metworks – Telematics
Consistent reduction in insurance premiums year on year since 2019
23% reduction in claims in 2022 compared to 2019
Speeding review time reduced from 1.5 hours to 10 mins (2018 vs 2022)
Won AFP Fleet Bursary based on improvements
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Miele – Business Benefits
Van drivers receive in-vehicle training from AA DriveTech, and Mandy has also extended in-person training to all car drivers. She says occasional resistance to delaying a driver’s vehicle allocation until they have had adequate training was quickly overcome by managers’ acceptance of the safety...
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Miele – Driver Training
Miele’s car drivers tend to plan their own schedules, while the van fleet is scheduled by Head Office. Mandy says the drivers themselves were keen to engage with the idea of fleet safety, but organisationally she realised Miele was lacking key governance components.
When the previous fleet...
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Miele – Fleet Activity
Although the company already had Webfleet telematics installed in 2018, no one within the fleet department was responsible for analysing the data. Mandy focused first on speeding data, sharing inappropriate speeding incidents with the drivers concerned. She emphasised that it was an endorsable...
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Miele – Telematics
On a day that started out just like any other, Bob Adams, a van driver very similar to many of those that work for you, begins his day’s work schedule. Some very common examples of poor driver safety management align and result in a serious incident involving a cyclist – but was it the...
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Mock Trial – Poor Driver Safety Management
Are you actually able to contrate fully on driving while also talking the phone, whether handheld or handsfree. We have the answer.
The Open University
Multitasking: Can you drive and phone at the same time?
NH monitors driver behaviour through in-vehicle telemetry, and Martin is currently determining new parameters for recording exception events. However, since the introduction of the first hybrid vehicles in 2019, he has observed a pattern of improvement which he believes is inspired by the new...