Managing Road Risk – Resources

National Highways and Driving for Better Business offer lots of free resources to help you and your drivers remain safe and legal.

Access some of our key resources below:

Driver Roadworthiness Guide

Managing physical and mental health and wellbeing in at-work drivers – explains the importance of not only ensuring vehicle roadworthiness but also the fitness of drivers. Driver health, mental state, and physical fitness significantly impact driving safety. The guide provides strategies for assessing and maintaining driver roadworthiness.

Guide to Incident Investigations

Developed with industry experts to assist employers investigate vehicle related incidents. Having an incident investigation process will help employers manage the risk of work-related driving, helping them to understand underlying issues and root causes, share learning and put in place measures to reduce future occurrences.

Risk and Policy E-book

Work related road risk is the risk that someone driving a vehicle on the roads as part of their job may be involved in a collision. Government road traffic collision and casualty statistics have consistently shown that around a third of all fatalities and injury collisions involve at least one person who was driving for work.

Driving for Work Policy Builder

The law says all companies must have policies and procedures in place to minimise risk – that includes the risks in driving for work. Use our online policy builder & check what to include in your driving for work policy.

Van Driver Toolkit

Reduce costs, improve operating conditions and ensure safe and legal vehicles and wellbeing for your drivers. Check understanding of best practice, and share with your drivers to reinforce your driving for work policies.

Car Driver Toolkit

The Car Driver Toolkit is aimed at people driving cars for work purposes, and includes a series of driver information topics to assist car drivers and fleet operators in dispelling uncertainty and myth.

Fleet Safety Focus Updates

Our fleet safety focus updates are published monthly with each one focusing on a different safety-related topic. Driver Managers and Fleet Operators can register for updates, and download the posters and information sheets to share with their drivers.

CALM Driver

Driving can be a solitary & stressful job and those conditions can add to the potential for poor mental health. Working with the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), we developed this free resource to help start the conversation about driver mental health.

Be the Change Video Series

Be The Change video series from National Highways Driving for Better Business programme
We hear about car, van & truck crashes every day.
But vehicles don’t crash. People crash. They just happen to be in a car, van or truck at the time. These 3 training videos are for both managers and drivers. We witness a fictitious collision, examine the consequences, & look at how it could have been avoided.

Gap Analysis

Our driver risk management gap analysis tool will help you evaluate your current performance and to understand where you may have gaps in your work related road risk management. You’ll be signposted to our free resources to help plug any gaps you find.

Driving on England’s motorways 

This leaflet seeks to aid overseas commercial drivers to use the network safely. It aims to help in reducing the frequency and severity of incidents on the strategic road network and is available in 15 languages.

Diesel Spillages – Best Practice  

This best practice guide is aimed at commercial vehicle drivers and operators to increase awareness of the impact of diesel spillages. It provides guidance for drivers and operators about what can be done to help prevent diesel spills. It also explains what actions should be taken in the case of a diesel spillage incident.

Driver Education Courses

These National Highways’ education courses are enhanced comprehensive training packages which are aimed at commercial freight and haulage drivers who use England’s motorway network. These courses can be used for stand-alone training, or they can also  be  integrated into Driver CPC, which is the standard qualification for all professional lorry drivers.

Trauma Response  

According to the World Health Organisation‘ even the most sophisticated emergency care system is ineffective if bystanders fail to recognise a serious injury or do not know how to call for help’. National Highways are continuing to develop, consult and test the trauma response training modules, focusing on making the perfect 999 call, dealing with danger & protecting the scene, and providing first aid.